Heiko Koziolek » ABB

Zooming Process Graphics

Heiko — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:20:59 +0000

Looks neat: ABB HawkEye is a research prototype of a new operator interface for process control. HawkEye is developed by ABB Strategic R&D for Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals.

IEEE names ABB technologies among the 11 most important of the decade

Heiko — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:14:03 +0000

Along with smartphones and digital photography, FACTS has been named among the top 11 technologies of the decade by the IEEE. The 11 technologies named in the list include smartphones, social networking, voice over IP, LED lighting, cloud computing, multicore CPUs, digital photography, drone aircraft, class-D audio and planetary rovers. FACTS (flexible AC transmission systems) also finds a place in this illustrious list. FACTS is a family of technologies that ABB pioneered and has continuously developed over the past 60 years.

“With these technologies ABB can increase the capacity of existing lines by as much as 50 percent, reduce electrical losses in long distance power transfer and relieve grid congestion and transmission bottlenecks that prevent the flow of electricity,” said Ingela Hålling, head of FACTS within the Grid Systems business of the Power Systems division. “FACTS technologies can also help to minimize the risk of blackouts, and facilitate the integration of intermittent types of energy by rapidly countering voltage fluctuations or by storing large amounts of surplus power until it is needed.”

ABB has delivered around 800 FACTS installations worldwide, which is more than half the world total.

Kinect controlling ABB robot

Heiko — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:52:50 +0000

Quote: “Today’s machinery is controlled by clunky levers and buttons. Most often, operators are having a hard time syncing their coordination with the machines. But now, as a new era of motion-control arrives, the Kinect can change the way we operate, the way we control machines. With the Kinect, precision handling of these constructs are on their way as users and operators can finally control machines through motion-based commands.”

ABB’s FRIDA Offers Glimpse of Future Factory Robots

Heiko — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:33:42 +0000

“This headless, two-armed robot may be tomorrow’s factory worker. Its name is FRIDA, and it’s a creation of ABB, the Swiss power and automation giant, which introduced it early this month at the Hannover trade show, Europe’s largest industrial fair…”

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/abb-factory-robot-frida

Job Rotation to Västerås

Heiko — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:35:02 +0000

Yesterday, I arrived in Västerås in Sweden, where I will stay for three month on a job rotation for ABB. Check out the weather and Google Street View.

ABB technology to search for signs of life on Mars

Heiko — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:06:47 +0000

An ABB interferometer is a central component of an instrument that will orbit Mars and probe the planet’s atmosphere in search of indicators of the past or present existence of life.

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. Copyright: European Space Agency

ABB Robot playing Basketball

Heiko — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:39:43 +0000

3D Factory Viewer Prototype

Heiko — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:56:25 +0000

Cooperation with ABB Corporate Research Sweden:

Final MT Prototype – SCA Factory Viewer from Ru Zarin on Vimeo.

ABB Robotics Fanta Can Challenge

Heiko — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:00:37 +0000

Timo found this impressive clip about ABB robots:

ABB Operator Workplace

Heiko — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:59:16 +0000

I am currently involved in a project with a process control system, which looks like this: