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ABB, a leading power and automation technology group, used ABB's Automation and Power World event in Houston, Texas, from March 2-5 to release a series of product announcements.
ABB expands Symphony Plus range to enhance flexibility and energy efficiency
ABB launched its Symphony Plus SD Series of flexible control and input/output (I/O) products, which offer total plant automation across application types, irrespective of size or physical location.
The SD Series is designed to improve energy efficiency and productivity in diverse operating environments within the power and water industries. The new range is especially suited for applications where control is distributed over a wide area often in harsh conditions, such as wind and solar power plants as well as water facilities.
The new portfolio is the latest addition to the Symphony Plus product family, ABB's flagship automation platform for the power generation and water sectors and the most widely used distributed control system (DCS) in these industries.
SD Series is a portfolio of DIN rail-mounted control and I/O products based on a scalable architecture, flexible design and field-proven technology. The energy-efficient solution pays for itself through reduced long-term energy, operational and maintenance costs.
Furthermore, they can withstand extreme operating conditions, such as temperatures from -20 to +70 degrees Celsius without the need for additional environmental protection. This significantly reduces their footprint and maintenance costs, and improves reliability and performance thanks to fewer components.
Symphony Plus enables plants and personnel to perform efficiently and balance objectives, like asset availability, operational reliability and production efficiency with business goals like asset life extension, carbon reduction and regulatory compliance.
There are more than 6,500 Symphony installations in operation all over the world, including more than 4,500 in power and water applications.
ABB partners with Ericsson to optimize cloud data center management
ABB has signed a strategic alliance with Ericsson, a global leader in mobile telecommunications, to provide an end-to-end automation platform that optimizes physical and virtual resources for data centers and cloud operators.
By bringing together the Ericsson Cloud System and ABB's Decathlon data center infrastructure management (DCIM) system, customers of Ericsson's cloud services will gain industrial-grade controls and tools to manage and automate a flexible array of power, cooling and IT systems. The new platform will be standardized and designed for ease of use, efficiency and sustainability.
In a highly competitive environment, operators of data centers are increasingly seeking new operational efficiencies as the management of data centers, their IT systems and facilities – once separate activities – increasingly converge into more holistic operation. The ABB-Ericsson alliance will help to achieve these efficiencies by reducing the need for capital expenditure; enabling more rapid time-to-deployment of infrastructure resources; and lowering energy and maintenance costs through better infrastructure management.
Keywords: Plant Automation, Mobile Telecommunications, Virtual Resources, Data Centers, Cloud Operators, Energy Management, ARC Advisory Group.