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What’s new in 2017

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Register your ABB PROFIsafe enabled drives ABB drives go wireless – Unlike traditional control
drive and protect your With the new Automation keypads with Bluetooth panels, Drivetune makes
investment Builder engineering tool, ABB’s connectability it possible to connect with
You can register your AC500-S safety PLC and the Drivetune is the smart any services and data
drive using the Drivebase ACS880 drive, it is possible mobile app enabling wireless available on the Internet
smartphone app. Drivebase to create an Ethernet-based communication to ABB low in parallel to online drive
allows you to read product network topology including voltage drives. The drive communication, providing
manuals and find ABB standard control and safety needs to have the Bluetooth powerful tools for any start-up
contact details, sends you control. This network will use enabled keypad fitted. You will and troubleshooting task. In
service recommendations and PROFIsafe over PROFInet to be able to startup your drive future it will have drive settings
enables quick troubleshooting implement control and safety. and commission with your that can be easily stored into
through fault code analysis. Together with the ACS880’s phone using simple settings cloud-based repositories.
FSO safety modules, this and widgets. The appealing There are two versions of
means a larger number of dashboard shows intuitively the Drivetune app, one for
safety and control requirements drive status, performance and Android and the other for iOS
can be met with less wiring. configuration. operating systems.

ABB softstarters Plug in to SIMATIC ABB general purpose
ABB’s softstarter range environment drives, ACS480
are available via the drives ABB offers an add-in to the PLC exists. Most of the ABB The ABB general purpose
business. This means the Siemens SIMATIC PLC PC drives range is supported by drive range is extended to
best possible advice can be tool environment. The add-in this add-in, including the include a drive with a different
given about when to utilise a allows ABB drives to appear ACS880 and ACS580 drives. hardware form factor. The drive
drive or a softstarter. ABB’s on the SIMATIC network and The drives can communicate firmware is targeting fan/pump
soft starter range includes tree structures. ABB drives over Profibus or Profinet. specialists, and will compliment
PSTX, PST(B), PSE, PSR, can now network as effectively the ABB general purpose drive
PSS. They cover any motor as a Siemens drive into range, being stocked by ABB’s
application from 3 A to 2160 existing or new PLC authorised value providers for
A and are ideal for infrequent environments and installations, fast and efficient delivery.
starts where a drive is not thus preventing the need to
commercially viable. take Siemens drives where a

6 Drives and controls, motors and mechanical power transmission catalogue