In December 2020, the latest report released by the ARC consulting group, a global authoritative consulting company, shows that ABB has maintained a leading position in the global automation core business field-the distributed control system (DCS) market for 21 consecutive years.

The report pointed out that in 2019, the in-depth deployment of ABB Ability™ System 800xA and ABB Ability™ Symphony Plus in the oil and gas, chemical, mining, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, food and beverage, metallurgical and other market segments is the main reason for this success. factor. ABB has always maintained a leading position in a number of key DCS areas, including modular automation, batch processing, and remote services.

Optimized operation in the industry 4.0 environment

ABB maintains an annual investment of 1.5 billion US dollars to focus on research and development of digital technology to help customers optimize operations in the Industry 4.0 environment. Control systems such as ABB Ability™Edgenius and ABB Ability™Genix combine DCS data with value-added applications to improve and enhance the key performance indicators of customers' factories and assets. The ABB Ability™ Edgenius operational data management platform obtains value from DCS data, while the ABB Ability™ Genix industrial-grade analysis and AI suite will obtain the production line’s operational technical data, engineering and information technology data combined to perform multi-dimensional data analysis and strategy analysis.

DCS, as a key part of Industry 4.0, has a global market value of US$15 billion.

As the core of factory-level digitalization, the distributed control system can ensure the high availability of the production process, maximize the use of assets, improve process efficiency and ensure product quality. DCS will boost the fourth industrial revolution and help companies achieve safe, intelligent and sustainable production, so as to achieve the purpose of changing people's daily lives.