Combining ABB AbilityTM and IBM Watson for
superior customer value
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ZURICH -- (Business Wire)
Replace first paragraph: ABB and IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a
strategic collaboration that brings together ABB’s industry leading
digital offering, ABB Ability, with IBM Watson Internet of Things
cognitive capabilities to unlock new value for customers in utilities,
industry and transport & infrastructure.
Customers will benefit from ABB’s deep domain knowledge and extensive
portfolio of digital solutions combined with IBM’s expertise in
artificial intelligence and machine learning as well as different
industry verticals. The first two joint industry solutions powered by
ABB Ability and Watson will bring real-time cognitive insights to the
factory floor and smart grids.
“This powerful combination marks truly the next level of industrial
technology, moving beyond current connected systems that simply gather
data, to industrial operations and machines that use data to sense,
analyze, optimize and take actions that drive greater uptime, speed and
yield for industrial customers,” said ABB CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer. “With
an installed base of 70 million connected devices, 70,000 digital
control systems and 6,000 enterprise software solutions, ABB is a
trusted leader in the industrial space, and has a four decade long
history of creating digital solutions for customers. IBM is a leader in
artificial intelligence and cognitive computing. Together, IBM and ABB
will create powerful solutions for customers to benefit from the Fourth
Industrial Revolution.”
New suite of breakthrough solutions
The new suite of breakthrough solutions developed by ABB and IBM will
help companies address in a completely new way some of their biggest
industrial challenges, such as improving quality control, reducing
downtime and increasing speed and yield of industrial processes. These
solutions will move beyond current connected systems that simply gather
data, to cognitive industrial machines that use data to understand,
sense, reason and take actions supporting industrial workers to help
eliminate inefficient processes and redundant tasks.
“This important collaboration with ABB will take Watson even deeper into
industrial applications – from manufacturing, to utilities, to
transportation and more,” said Ginni Rometty, IBM Chairman, president
and CEO. “The data generated from industrial companies' products,
facilities and systems holds the promise of exponential advances in
innovation, efficiency and safety. Only with Watson's broad cognitive
capabilities and our platform's unique support for industries can this
vast new resource be turned into value, with trust. We are eager to work
in partnership with ABB on this new industrial era.”
Bringing real-time cognitive insights to the factory floor
For example, ABB and IBM will leverage Watson’s artificial intelligence
to help find defects via real-time production images that are captured
through an ABB system, and then analyzed using IBM Watson IoT for
Manufacturing. Previously, these inspections were done manually, which
was often a slow and error-prone process. By bringing the power of
Watson's real time cognitive insights directly to the shop floor in
combination with ABB’s industrial automation technology, companies will
be better equipped to increase the volume flowing through their
production lines while improving accuracy and consistency. As parts flow
through the manufacturing process, the solution will alert the
manufacturer to critical faults – not visible to the human eye – in the
quality of assembly. This enables fast intervention from quality control
experts. Easier identification of defects impacts all goods on the
production line, and helps improve a company’s competitiveness while
helping avoid costly recalls and reputational damage.
Bringing real-time cognitive insights to smart grids
In another example, ABB and IBM will apply Watson’s capabilities to
predict supply patterns in electricity generation and demand from
historical and weather data, to help utilities optimize the operation
and maintenance of today’s smart grids, which are facing the increased
complexity created by the new balance of conventional as well as
renewable power sources. Forecasts of temperature, sunshine and wind
speed will be used to predict consumption demand, which will help
utilities determine optimal load management as well as real-time pricing.
About ABB:
ABB (ABBN: SIX Swiss Ex) is a pioneering technology leader in
electrification products, robotics and motion, industrial automation and
power grids, serving customers in utilities, industry and transport &
infrastructure globally. Continuing more than a 125-year history of
innovation, ABB today is writing the future of industrial digitalization
and driving the Energy and Fourth Industrial Revolutions. ABB operates
in more than 100 countries with about 132,000 employees. www.abb.com
About IBM:
For more information, please visit www.ibm.com/iot,
www.ibm.com/internet-of-things/iot-solutions/iot-manufacturing/
and follow @IBMIoT on Twitter.
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ericat@us.ibm.com
Source: ABB
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