Drives & Controls July / August 2022

n NEWS ABB has opened a €100m global innovation and training campus at the headquarters of its Austrian machine and factory automation subsidiary, B&R. The campus, which will create up to 1,000 high-tech jobs, includes r&d labs, as well as facilities for training up to 4,000 people from around the world each year in collaboration with universities. The campus expands B&R's headquarters to more than 100,000m2, making it one of the largest sites for automation production, research and training in Europe. The expansion will free up space for additional production capacity to meet increasing demand for B&R’s products. The site, which employs around 2,400 people, will get around 98% of its electricity from solar power. As part of the development, the site’s photovoltaic generating capacity has been expanded to 1.8MW, making it one of the largest PV installations in Austria. The campus will serve as an open innovation hub, where B&R will collaborate with international customers, companies and start-ups, as well as research and educational institutions, to co-develop automation technologies and train people needed for factories of the future. ABB CEO Björn Rosengren describes the opening of campus as “a proud moment for our ABB as we create highly-skilled jobs while shaping the machines and factories of the future together with our customers.” Sami Atiya, president of ABB’s Robotics & Discrete Automation business, says that the new campus will serve as a collaboration centre “where we work with customers around the globe, helping them to respond to these trends and supporting B&R in becoming the partner of choice for the world’s most ambitious industrial automation projects.” Following its acquisition of B&R in 2017, ABB argues it is now the only company offering industrial automation users a complete range of integrated hardware and software for control, actuation, robotics, analytics and electrification. n B&R has unveiled a new brand identity that creates a visual connection between B&R and ABB. More News reports on our Web site We post many more news reports on ourWeb site than we have space for in the magazine. Often theWeb site also carries longer versions of reports in the magazine. Here are some of the stories that we have posted since the previous issue of Drives &Controls appeared. n Government plans to simplify the move to UKCA marking https://drivesncontrols.news/9pn74s n Global robot sales bounce back to hit record highs https://drivesncontrols.news/bf8fqk n SKF and ABB boost collaboration on industrial automation https://drivesncontrols.news/wsy9b2 n £13m extension will provide robotics and automation training for apprentices https://drivesncontrols.news/ua6ean n €23.5mmotors factory in Portugal will include testing laboratory https://drivesncontrols.news/ge2xr7 n Schneider sells Eurotherm controls business toWatlow https://drivesncontrols.news/pgfbhr n Siemens buys UK predictive maintenance specialist Senseye https://drivesncontrols.news/r8urt3 n Modular drive systemwins Hermes innovation award at Hannover https://drivesncontrols.news/rzbggf n Joint project slashes cost of OT cybersecurity for UK SMEs https://drivesncontrols.news/hpztgc n Industry groups join forces to define energy monitoring standard https://drivesncontrols.news/r2rjaf ABB’s new €100m campus in Austria will train up to 4,000 people from around the world every year All Data In Hand? Get Connected! €100mmachinery automation campus will train 4,000 per year