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ABB's Industrial IT Solutions Receive Editor's Choice Award from Control Engineering Magazine
May 29, 2001
ABB announced today that its new Industrial IT Solutions portfolio has been chosen by Control Engineering Magazine to receive an Editor's Choice Award. ABB's Industrial IT Solutions suite was recognized as one of the truly outstanding innovations that have been featured in the past year. The 2000 awards reception and ceremony took place last night in Chicago.
The award winners were selected from all of the new products featured in the 2000 issues of Control Engineering, Control Engineering International and Control Engineering Online. At year-end, the editors selected the winners based on service to the industry, technological advancement, and market impact.
"We are delighted that our Industrial IT Solutions have been recognized by the editors of Control Engineering as one of the most innovative and technologically influential introductions of 2000," said Robert Hausler, Director of Product Management for ABB's Control Products Division.
ABB's Industrial IT Solutions are integrated, e-enabled suites of next generation automation software and hardware products that dramatically improve enterprise-wide productivity. As knowledge is the most precious commodity in business today, the challenge is to have the relevant information available at the right time at the right place in the right form for the right people. ABB's Industrial IT solutions meet this challenge by providing a consistent infrastructure for data, operations, configuration and maintenance across the enterprise. This unified architecture improves productivity, provides higher asset optimization and allows for more informed decision-making. ABB's Industrial IT solutions include the following productivity suites.
Control IT software and hardware components seamlessly integrate process-oriented information into true open applications to improve process control using worldwide-accepted industry standards. Scalable and platform independent products show the evolution path into an IT environment by enhancing customers' installations.
Engineer IT Engineering Tools significantly improve the integration of information in both dimensions, the Asset Lifecycle dimension – from design to implementation to installation to commissioning and operation- as well as the Operation dimension – from the field equipment via control systems to Business systems.
Operate IT Human System Interface provides a web-enabled, unified user interface for every user in the enterprise. This integrated software environment embraces a true object-oriented architecture allowing seamless information exchange throughout the enterprise.
Produce IT batch production solution configures, schedules, monitors and controls both multi-product and multi-path productions. It offers an unmatched level of batch integration with scheduling, electronic batch records and history to deliver excellent batch-to-batch consistency, quality and productivity.
Inform IT Enterprise Historian helps the user make important productivity decisions based on comprehensive, real-time enterprise-wide information, thus facilitating true e-manufacturing. Access to and use of this information allows identification of bottlenecks, operations analysis, understanding of performance changes and process optimization. Enterprise Historian raises the visibility of data from all functions within the enterprise.
The Optimize IT product suite offers integrated solutions for on-line and off-line optimization from existing field devices and control systems to plant infrastructure and the supply chain. These solutions are targeted to providing visibility to manufacturing assets from business management and the optimization of manufacturing capacity based on business needs and the asset life demands.
ABB's new portfolio of integrated Industrial IT solutions address the challenges that automation customer's face in today's e-business environment. These products are the latest step in ABB's continued promise of integrated e-enabled process solutions that link the entire enterprise. As the world's largest provider of industrial automation technologies, ABB has helped industry leaders worldwide to achieve integrated, real-time solutions for automation and information across the enterprise. ABB's comprehensive Industrial IT portfolio of compatible products - coupled with more than 20,000 software, application, and service professionals worldwide - is focused on delivering productivity and profits to automation customers. ABB's product strategy is for evolution through enhancement to protect customer investment.
ABB is the world's largest automation supplier; the company's automation technology products division includes major product areas such as control products and systems, manufacturing execution systems, instrumentation, analytical devices, meters, robotics, drives, motors and machines. ABB (www.abb.com) serves manufacturing, process and consumer industries, utilities, and the oil and gas sector markets with 160,000 employees in more than 100 countries.
