ABB in the US: By the numbers

ABB is a technology leader in electrification and automation, enabling a more sustainable and resource-efficient future.

The company’s solutions connect engineering know-how and software to optimize how things are manufactured, moved, powered and operated.

ABB’s Business Areas

Electrification
Wide-ranging portfolio of products, digital solutions and services, from substation to socket, enabling safe, smart and sustainable electrification

  • Power distribution and UPS ensure reliability at the world’s largest data centers.
  • Building solutions to save up to 50% on energy costs
  • Launched ABB Ability™ eMine suite of solutions (2021) to decarbonize mining operations.


Motion
Keeping the world turning with motors and drives that are essential to our way of life

  • Highly efficient motor/drive solutions reduce electricity use and emissions.
  • Sensor technologies increase safety and uptime of motors and drives with remote monitoring.
  • Largest U.S. manufacturer of industrial electric motors.


Process Automation
Monitoring and control systems and industry-specific automation

  • World’s first all-electric ferry (Maid of the Mist) and tug (eWolf) powered by ABB.
  • Most advanced natural gas detection, available for UAV, vehicle, hand-held and stationary applications.
  • Selected by SGH2 Energy to provide electrical, instrumentation, automation, security, and telecommunications for California’s first negative carbon hydrogen production plant.


Robotics & Discrete Automation
Robotic solutions, machine, and factory automation

  • First robot to be designed, built, programmed and deployed in the USA.
  • Two new families of collaborative robotics announced in 2021, GoFa™ and SWIFTI™.
  • Lead sponsor and supporter of FIRST Robotics Competition for students.

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Sarah Lippincott

ABB Director of Digital Communications, United States
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