ABB Inc.

Company Overview
ABB Inc. is one of the world’s largest suppliers of automation, manufacturing execution systems, robotics, analytics, advanced solutions and services to the life sciences industry. ABB's IndustrialIT provides a portfolio of compatible technologies for power, automation and information; a robust, open architecture for integrated solutions; and ABB's domain expertise. IndustrialIT products and services include: Analysis and instrumentation equipment, automation solutions, manufacturing execution systems (MES/EBR), robot-based manufacturing, and validation and compliance services.

Quick Facts
ABB Inc.
501 Merritt 7P.O. Box 5308
Norwalk, CT 06851

Phone:	+1 203 750 2200
Fax:	+1 203 750 2263

Featured Solutions

• Aventis Pharma counts on safety of S900 by ABB Inc.
  In this case study, ABB successfully undertakes a complete automation of an Aventis Pharma plant in Germany, from the control level to the measuring device in the field.
  
  
• ABB integrates plant, stops batch rejects by ABB Inc.
  In this case study, ABB automates Bayer's plant in Pilar, Argentina, which produces some of the highest batch volumes for pharmaceuticals in the region, using manufacturing execution system (MES) software, to become one of the first completely integrated and paperless pharmaceutical plants in the world.
  
  
• Chalmers University of Technology: There's no cleaner room to be found by ABB Inc.
  In this case study, ABB develops a cleanroom for Chalmers University of Technology's Microtechnology Centre including layout, engineering, construction and apparatus installation, making it the most advanced cleanroom in academia at the time of its inauguration.
  
  
• ABB helps CSL Bioplasma gain control over plant data by ABB Inc.
  ABB used its Industrial solutions to merge eight diverse CSL Bioplasma databases and decouple engineering functions from plant control without risking major disruption to their operations.
  
  
• Warehouse integration project by ABB Inc.
  In this case study, ABB Process Solutions assesses the impact of a new integrated warehouse management system for a U.K. pharmaceutical company and manages its implementation, including creating a risk management process and a validation strategy to ensure compliance.
  
  
• ABB unites GxP and non-GxP automation in pharmaceutical plant by ABB Inc.
  In this case study, ABB's Facility Automation Solution (FAS) helped a U.S. pharmaceutical company unify its automation, monitoring and control of plant utilities and environment for GxP and non-GxP areas.
  
  
• Bulk pharmaceutical production at Knoll controlled by ABB MOD 300 system by ABB Inc.
  In this case study, ABB supplies an advanced automation control system to Knoll Pharmaceuticals in the U.K. that monitors and controls temperature, pressure, flow and sequencing of materials through the various process vessels.
  
  
• World's biggest insulin plant relies on ABB technology by ABB Inc.
  In this case study, ABB delivers advanced a batch automation system and automated the entire clean-in-place (CIP) system for Novo Nordisk's largest insulin bulk plant.
  
  
• Business systems validation for Pfizer production plant by ABB Inc.
  In this case study, ABB defines a practical validation strategy and detailed implementation plan for a flagship Pfizer plant that produces Lipitor, maintaining Pfizer's excellent regulatory compliance record during a major software transition.
  
  
• ABB software to control Pharmacia plant by ABB Inc.
  This case study shows how ABB automated a new pharmaceutical plant for Pharmacia by using the latest open control and batch optimization technology.
  
  
• ABB controls modernized Vitamin C facility at Roche Products by ABB Inc.
  In this case study, ABB's Advant OCS (open control system) technology automated process equipment being installed at Roche Products' dairy facility, one of the most important vitamin manufacturing facilities in Europe.
  
  

• Automation: Industrial Extended Automation System 800XA by ABB Inc. by ABB Inc.
  ABB Inc.'s System 800XA facilitates compliance with features like system security, secure data management and reporting, electronic records and signatures, and the automated electronic recording of changes.
  
  
• Validation and compliance services: Solutions by ABB Inc. by ABB Inc.
  ABB Inc.'s validation and compliance solutions include strategic planning, project management, specialized validation training and validation outsourcing.
  
  
• Automation Technology - 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance by ABB Inc.
  <P>ABB Inc.'s industrial automation system is a technology platform that can be installed and configured to conform to the 21 CFR Part 11 regulation. </P>
  
  
• Industrial Extended Automation System 800xA by ABB Inc.
  ABB Inc.'s 800xA human-system interface terminals can operate as integrated control system interface, or can serve as the central operation and record keeping system coordinating connected programmable logic controllers.
  
  
• Regulatory compliance and validation services by ABB Inc.
  ABB’s regulatory compliance services can assist in dealing with the increasing demands and complexity of national and international regulations.
  
  
• Analyze IT for Integrated Solutions by ABB Inc.
  <P>ABB Analytical and Advanced Solutions offers a comprehensive Analyze IT Suite to meet the most diverse and stringent requirements for applications and measurement technology as part of the Industrial IT suite of solutions. The Analyze IT products include: continuous gas analyzers, FTIR and FT-NIR spectrometers, gas chromatographs, mass spectrometers, photometers, physical property analyzers and network components.</P>
  
  
• Industrial IT for Process Analytical Technology by ABB Inc.
  The Industrial IT for PAT solution provides process visibility, analysis, warehousing and archiving of data, including spectral, chromatographic, histogram, imaging, quality attributes and process data. The ABB PAT solution is scalable, from a single analyzer and process assessment on a single process unit to multiple analyzers on multiple process units covering a complete process train.