ABB Ability™ History
IINDUSTRY 4.0
Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is causing exponential data growth in smart devices and factories. In a crucial role, data will serve as a fundamental resource to promote I4.0 from machine automation to information automation and then to knowledge automation. Holistic real-time data-driven applications starting from the asset level towards production units, the whole factory, and across production sites will enable optimisation of the business processes. Enabler for the data-driven applications is the managed high-quality time series data flow from sensors to applications and controls back to devices. Currently, about 80% of the total effort and cost for an application implementation and engineering is used for the data flow implementation.
In I4.0, managed data flow means semantical modelling of the assets and processes, collecting the data, processing, validating quality, aggregating, storing, transporting bidirectionally between systems, and publishing it with industry standard interfaces for the application developers. Everything securely, close to real-time, and targeting towards better application developer experience.
ABB Ability™ History provides you reliable data flow management system from a device up to your application. ABB Ability™ History collects and delivers data accurately with minimal latency, both on-premise as well as to Cloud applications.
A wide range of companies in various industries around the world use ABB Ability™ History from a standalone embedded data logger for a piece of equipment up to enterprise-level Collaborative Production Management (CPM) solutions. It integrates real-time control system data with the current business context to support fast operational decision-making on the asset, plant, or enterprise level. It transforms data to actionable information.
ABB Ability™ History is a refreshingly intuitive database management system that incorporates tools and services for data-driven application development.
The full suite includes functionalities such as data acquisition, data processing, data storage, analytics, notification and visualisation in addition to various tools and services to unlock the value of the data. At the heart of the service lies the powerful information modelling as we refer it “equipment modelling” henceforth.
Adapting equipment modelling greatly enhances your data as it incorporates a comprehensive enabler for describing physical and functional properties of devices, subsystems, and plants with the real-time operational data. Uniting the powerful modelling tools with industry standard APIs enables you to query the database to derive accurate situational reports on the fly data to accelerate model-based application development.
Trusting our versatile system, clients are creating highly customised industrial solutions that end users can trust and use with ease. See the various use cases to learn the applicability of our product.
Updated about 2 months ago