ABB Automation Extended Program: Supporting Seamless Industrial Innovation

[Erkan Teskancan]

## ABB Automation Extended Program: Supporting Seamless Industrial Innovation

ABB has introduced the Automation Extended program, enabling continuous modernization. This program allows industries to update their existing distributed control systems (DCS) without disruption, thereby preserving investment continuity.

### A New Approach to Industrial Modernization

Building on ABB's experience leading the largest DCS installations worldwide, Automation Extended ensures that future automation capabilities are introduced incrementally and with system integrity maintained. This approach allows for flexibility, scalability, and efficiency, adapting particularly well to rapidly changing industrial operations.

Today's business environment presents challenges such as market fluctuations, cybersecurity threats, regulations, and workforce changes. ABB Automation Extended addresses these conditions by supporting continuous production, advanced analytics, and IoT integration, while aiming for ease of use for operators at different levels.

### Continuous Modernization and Reliable Systems

Users can progressively and seamlessly deploy new technologies on reliable systems such as ABB Ability System 800xA, ABB Ability Symphony Plus, and ABB Freelance. This structure enables modernization with low risk, guaranteeing the continuity of innovation.

### Features of ABB Automation Extended

• Offers a modern, open, and modular environment
• Ensures seamless integration and scalability across industrial domains
• Establishes a secure connection between control and digital environments
• Software-defined control environment provides stable and reliable control for critical processes
• Advanced applications and real-time analytics powered by AI and machine learning run in the digital environment
• Provides open platform support with OPC UA communication protocol
• Configured with cloud-based, containerized, orchestration, and modular services
• Offers proactive process anomaly detection and maintenance optimization
• Enables applicability across various hardware with modular engineering approaches

### ABB's Role in Industry

As a global technology leader in electrification and automation, ABB provides sustainable and resource-efficient solutions. With over 140 years of experience and 110,000 employees, it aims to improve the performance of industries.

ABB Automation Extended will be available with future releases of ABB Ability System 800xA, ABB Ability Symphony Plus, and ABB Freelance, thereby opening the doors to continuous innovation across sectors.