Introduction of ABB China Corporate Research Center
ABB has been a pioneer in the power and automation technologies industry for more than 100 years. It is almost impossible to record the number of inventions and the 'number ones' ABB has brought into this modern world.
To enhance ABB's market position in China as well as form a brain pool for engineering creativity, ABB Corporate Research China was established in 2005, which provides high level research and application oriented results for the ABB business and customers.
The mission of ABBs Chinese Research in a way is, that engineers try to make products simpler and more robust with clever designs and new materials, more reliable and safer, where safe means foolproof to avoid any of potential accidents, more intelligent to have plug and play solutions.
The overall target is to find solutions and new concepts to minimize electric energy losses from the energy generation to the end user - where in Chinese dimensions a reduction of 3 1.529273e-302nergy losses may be the equivalent of energy supplied to half a million households.
Further in the Power System and Product Research grid security concepts are studied to avoid fragile topology in power supply systems in future with focus on the Mega City power feed-in. A topic on the
other side of the coin is the rural electrification for areas where renewables like wind-energy
become the dominant factor and especially in this topic strong cooperation with customers and
external research institutes is important. Through the cooperation both parties are able to learn
and gain profit out of it.
In general the Power Transmission and Distribution research activity covering the range from Power-
products up to complex systems gives strong value contribution not only to ABB, it creates value at
local customers and impacts the society, which became very dependent from uninterrupted power supply
, especially in Cities where more people live in one place than in e.g. Switzerland and Austria
together.
A second topic in ABBs Research field is Robotics, where we have even the ABB Robotics Headquarter
in Shanghai. In Robotics we are maybe an early bird in a country with low labor costs, but even in
such low cost environment Robots started to become a good and cost saving alternative for mass
production, especially on automotive industry. From production and sales support to Product
Development up to long term oriented Research, the Team in Shanghai has very close cooperation with
the R&D Centers in Sweden and Germany, as well as to local Universities.
A third pillar of Development work done in Chinese Research center is the Operational Development
activity, where highly experienced Industrial Managers are focused to improve the value chain and
production process with implementation of state of the art methods and customization of process
tools and methods – with 4 key words in their Agenda: safety – quality - speed and costs.
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