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ABB is adding two new cabinet-built drives to its ACS580 general purpose drives portfolio, making it the first company to offer a low and medium voltage product family spanning the fractional-kilowatt to multi-megawatt power level. The ACS580 family is designed to control a wide range of variable and basic constant torque applications such as pumps, fans, conveyors and mixers in a broad variety of industries. The common architecture enables simplicity in operation and life cycle management acro …

ABB is launching the industry’s first range of motor starting solutions with a Push-in Spring technology that makes fault-free wiring easier than ever. The innovative tool-free connection concept speeds up wiring work and provides a vibration-resistant connection that makes continuous operation more reliable.  ABB’s intuitive 2-in-1 design combines the advantages of both Push-in and Spring technology in a single terminal.  In Push-in mode, rigid cables or cables with ferr …

ABB, a Fortune500 corporation and the leading power and automation technology group, today introduced its new molded case circuit breaker (MCCB) for 1500V photovoltaic (PV) systems at ABB Customer World 2017. The MCCB protects the electrical system from overvoltage.  For some time, high generating cost has been a major constraint to the potential of the PV sector. How to reduce the LCOE (Levelized Cost of Energy) and improve production efficiency has become a core task for the PV solar ind …

ABB’s all-new range of AFS contactors for safety applications is now available to order. The launch of the new contactors completes the expansion of the company’s portfolio of safety components, making it possible to equip every aspect of a plant’s safety architecture with ABB technologies.  The new AFS contactors can be part of the safety chain in industrial machinery and process industry applications, stopping motors or triggering gas discharges. For machine safety appl …

The Jokab Safety Sentry family of safety relays, new from ABB, simplify troubleshooting and resetting to reduce downtime, are universal for all common applications to reduce stock and are easily wired and configured to save installation time.  Among the features of the ABB Jokab Safety Sentry family of safety relays that enable continuous operations are three-color LEDs that convey a wider variety of status messages to simplify troubleshooting, while models with seven-segment digital displ …