Managing technology change in industrial automation: an ABB overview of research priorities

Author

Sweet, Larry M. ; Rytoft, Claes

Author_Institution

ABB Ind. & Building Syst. Segment, Stamford, CT, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

24-26 Aug 1994

Firstpage

3

Abstract

Trends towards open systems, enterprise-wide business and plant automation, and field bus technology are transforming industrial automation, presenting major technical challenges to satisfy customer needs for increased productivity, reliability, and safety. Principal emphasis is placed on management of technological change and the explosion in information and complexity enabled by the new technology. ABB is addressing these needs in a broad range of applications, including process and automotive industries, power generation and transmission, building systems and transportation, built on a foundation of automation research as a core competence

Keywords

electric power generation; factory automation; information technology; management of change; power transmission; process control; transportation; automotive industry; building systems; enterprise-wide business; field bus technology; industrial automation; power generation; process and automotive industries; technology change; transportation; Manufacturing automation; Power generation; Power transmission; Process control; Technological innovation; Transportation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Applications, 1994., Proceedings of the Third IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Glasgow

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1872-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCA.1994.381278

Filename

381278