TPT July 2021

T E CHNOLOG Y

Innovative ABB Ability™ performance optimisation service for cold rolling mills

ABB HAS launched its new ABB Ability™ performance optimisation service for cold rolling mills, offering steel, aluminium and other metals manufacturers opportunities to reach new levels of operational performance through technology, boosting their processes and profitability. The new service – part of ABB’s met- als digital portfolio and Collaborative Operations for Metals suite – combines continuous performance monitoring us- ing ABB Ability™ Data Analytics for cold rolling mills, with real time support from ABB experts. ABB will work alongside customers with the vision of continuing to transform the metals industry. The data analytics component uses process-specific algorithms based on a century of metals domain expertise to collect high frequency data from mill control systems and discover trends, benchmarks and other performance

factors, sending alerts to operators and maintenance when opportunities to optimise performance are identified. Alongside this, ABB experts are avail- able to provide onsite or offsite support, recommending actions to ensure the mill maintains its performance targets against key performance indicators (KPIs) for productivity, quality and yield. Leveraging the collective strengths of metals producers and ABB experts, access to dashboards is shared, enabling all parties to drill down to individual coil level. ABB experts can also provide de- tailed reports describing areas for im- provement, identified trends, or problem areas found in historical data, allowing for continuous improvement over time. “Our deep understanding of the pain points experienced by cold rolling mill operators is the foundation of this so- lution,” said Andreas Vollmer, global

technology manager, ABB Metals. “For example, the timeline and chronological analysis capability identifies deteriora - tion, or other trends, at a glance. This highlights the root cause of issues in real time against any KPIs to the last coil, as well as enabling secondary analysis of KPIs chronologically for any coil.” “This is our most advanced optimisa- tion technology yet, with greater capa- bilities to detect, analyse, predict and prevent failures than existing solutions,” said Nilabja Ash, global product manag- er, metals service, ABB Metals. “It has the potential to significantly improve the ability to spot trends and relationships between different process parameters, overcome quality issues, reduce un- scheduled downtime and reach higher levels of productivity.”

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