ABB to showcase new products on CIIF 2010

　　Robotics is always one of the most popular technologies on every year’s CIIF with all robots manufacturer competing in showing their new products and new applications. As a star in this robots show, ABB will come out with three successful robots workstations, as well as a presentation to show ABB innovative painting solutions for higher energy efficiency by employing FlexPainter IRB 5500, the new ABB painting robot.

　　Designed for car painting, the new Flexpainter IRB 5500 was up-to-now one of the most efficient and the most flexible car body painting robots and had an accelerated speed of 24m/s2 and a painting speed of 1.5-2m/s, which can achieve a reduction of 20% on production time and a decrease of 12% on paint consumption. The unique concept of the FlexPainter IRB 5500 allows the robot arms to move parallel both to vertical and horizontal car surface. ABB's high flow atomizers and exclusive Integrated Process System(IPS) provides high speed and accurate closed loop process control to minimize over-spray and maximize the paint finish quality. The FlexPainter IRB 5500 is designed for tight installation, taking up less space on the production the features of large working envelope and high acceleration, two FlexPainter IRB 5500s capable of handling jobs that up until now has required four paint robots. The FlexPainter is cost cutting in practice. ABB FlexPainter IRB 5500 has installed in the product lines of FAW, China Heavy Truck Group and Nanjing Chang'an Group.

　　Featured by i-bus? intelligent building control system, ABB low voltage products family has been the star of CIIF to lead the building intelligentization. ABB’s intelligent building offerings to provide comprehensive intelligent community solutions including door entry, smart home control, and electrical wiring accessories products, are also addressing Chinese customers’ increasing demands on intelligent building products. By combining its advanced technologies and fashionable aesthetic style, the Mingyue series door entry system offers customers an intelligent, comfortable and eco-friendly home and building environment within the context of a safer, more reliable, and more energy efficient intelligent community. ”

　　The locally produced Mingyue series door entry system was jointly developed by research teams from ABB China and ABB Germany, combining their advanced technologies and manufacturing processes. With outstanding quality and following the international aesthetic trend, the system offers indoor phone with touch panel in variable sizes and colors to match different home models and decorating styles. The indoor phone uses both six keybuttons and graphic user interface to enable more intelligent intercom operation. The system connects via Cat.5 cable for simultaneous transfer of video, audio, data, and power, cutting the wiring cost by 60% and installation cost by 50%. The system helps customers build a high quality intelligent community in a green and cost-effective manner.

　　Since being launched in 2004, ABB Extended Automation System 800xA had redefined the function of automation system and become the industry’s first integration platform in deed. System 800xA is always a must to attract visitors on all exhibitions ABB takes part in, with its mighty integration power, excellent availability and scalability, and the unsurpassed efficiency it creates for operators.

　　ABB has long been active in promoting and applying high-efficiency automation technologies and recently released the latest version of its new generation automation platform Extended Automation System 800xA Version 5.1 – in July 2010. The system creates a truly integrated collaborative environment for users by allowing deeper integration of various smart devices, systems and applications. With a flexible and robust architecture and powerful scalability, it supports integration of fieldbus, process control & safety, and electrical equipments & systems, etc.. The new version further improves overall system performance and usability with a significantly reduced physical footprint, the values of the Power of Integration brought by System 800xA’s integrated Process and Power automation, are well recognized by CIS particularly in the current low carbon economy, and consequently was listed in the Excellent Product category for 2010 Science and Technology Awards by CIS.

　　On June 23, 2010, ABB launched a new standard series of slip ring generators to fit most 1.5 - 2.0 MW doubly-fed turbines. Featuring a module design, the new product is suitable to most turbines used today as well as to all kinds of land based and off-shore wind farm.

　　With a patented rotor design, it can withstand overspeed and voltage peaks, and reaches an increased insulation level at 2.5 kV and a maximum overspeed up to 3,000 revolutions per minute. The product, maintaining a leading position in terms of both technology and performance in the global market, will be introduced for local production in China soon after its release.

　　AZ series new Zirconia analyzer is a new product with many innovations that ABB released based on its patent technology. With a response time less than 10 seconds and the highest precision control abilities, the analyzer can also be used with integrated or split transmitter. Some high temperature products can even work at 800 ?C, reach at a depth of 4 meters and automatically demarcate.

　　Significantly, the particular structure design that can be entirely disassembled is actually a revolution and greatly facilitates on-site maintenance. The fully integrated automatic demarcation is able to control the sequence of gas measuring, verify the validity of gases to be tested, and eliminate the demarcation errors caused by loss of the gases. The operation cost and the total cost of ownership can also be remarkably decreased due to the improved system precision as a result of that no technical staff is needed to deal with maintenance.

　　All process industrial companies have a common clear target, that is, to maximize automation with lowest cost. Bearing this principle, ABB redefined the compact and scalable control system with Freelance, the hybrid process control system which combines DCS and PLC. It’s a DCS with the same size and cost with PLC, with a integrated environment to facilitate engineering, commissioning, maintenance and management of field bus, at the same time with an operator interface on which a simple operation and a diagnosis of the entire system can be taken.

　　In April, 2010, Freelance 9.2, the latest version of Freelance was launched. This release supports new direct I/O modules for AC 700F, PROFIBUS for AC 700F, S700 as remote I/O, Excel Reporting and the possibility to integrate PLCs into DigiVis operation and observation. A first version of Freelance Bulk Data Manager is available to reduce engineering cost. Today, with powerful automation capabilities, low cost, easy-to-use and advanced design, more than 10 thousands successful application cases have proved Freelance a very impressive image.

　　On Jan. 14 this year, the new ABB medium voltage drive ACS 2000 was presented in China for the first time. It is rated from 400 to 1,000 kVA, in voltages up to 6.9 kV and aimed at a wide range of applications not requiring an engineered drive. The air-cooled ACS 2000 is specifically targeted at fan, pump, compressor and other common applications in industries such as cement, minerals and mining, metals, pulp & paper, water, power generation and chemical, oil and gas.

　　Inherited proven and tested technology of ABB MV drives, ACS 2000 is smaller, more reliable, and more energy efficient than its congeners ever before. With flexible line supply connections, lower harmonics, reduced energy consumption and “three in-three out” cabling concept, it will help customers achieve a fantastic conversion and energy saving easily at the same time reduce the investment and cost. With prestigious heritage of innovation and cutting-edge technology, the new series product strengthens ABB’s position as the leading supplier of variable speed drives.

　　Dragon IRB 120, the world’s smallest ever as well as the fastest six-axis industrial robot, was launched by ABB at CIIF 2009. The release of the Dragon IRB 120 also fills in the domestic gap in robotic R&D. One year later, Dragon has been succeeded in various fields and a robotic automation workstation for lithium-ion battery sorting which is mainly composed of IRB120 and battery measurers will be showcased on this year’s CIIF.

　　Aiming to replace the current manual measurement and sorting, this efficient workstation utilizes a special two clamp gripper to optimize the measurement and the transit rhythm, and to make a remarkable improvement of productivity and product quality. This sorting system can be used to measure, sort all kinds of lithium-ion batteries as well as in production and assembly processes.

　　In addition to the above 8 highlights, ABB marine system, dual-axis closed loop solar tracking system, low voltage motors, measurement products, plugs and wiring accessories, and intelligent building control system will also be showcased to make the ABB booth at CIIF more attractive and more brilliant.

　　ABB () is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 117,000 people. ABB has a full range of business activities in China, including R&D, manufacturing, sales and services, with 15,300 employees, 30 joint ventures and wholly owned companies, and an extensive sales and service network across 60 cities.