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US Corporate Research Center (USCRC). Strengthening Research in U.S. . US Corporate Research - A branch of ABB’s Global R&D Labs Raleigh Location: focus on Power Technologies serving electric utility customers - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
US Corporate Research Center (USCRC)
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Strengthening Research in U.S. US Corporate Research - A branch of ABB’s Global R&D Labs
Raleigh Location: focus on Power Technologies serving electric utility customersWickliffe Location: focus on Automation Technologies serving process industry customers Windsor Location: focus on Robotics Technologies for manufacturing customers
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USCRC in U.S.
Association: Automation Technologies Lab
Power Technologies Lab
Locations: Raleigh, NC
Wickliffe, OH
Windsor, CT and Auburn Hills, MI(Aligned with ABB Product Development and Operations areas)
Established: Initial formation February 2002
Building to critical mass
Size: approx 70 Engineers (PhD, MS degrees)Purpose: Supporting future technologies related to program
areas of local and global development organizations
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Why strengthen R&D in U.S.?
US is the world’s most competitive economy. US is the world’s largest market. US has large installed customer base. US attracts the world’s best talents. US provides suitable environment for starting new
technology based business. US has a large number of the world class universities
and other research institutions. US has been leading innovations for many years in
many scientific and technology fronts.
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Why strengthen R&D in U.S.? US is the largest market for ABB and is showing a
great potential for our business growing. We want to have our ABB R&D
close to the market, close to our end customers, and close to leading universities.
We want to attract the best talents into our research and development organization.
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How do we work? As an integral portion of ABB’s Group R&D, we share
ABB’s global vision and technology strategies, but emphasize the local market needs.
We work closely with our other Corporate Research Centers around the world.
We are establishing close ties with the industries we serve.
We are building long-term relationships with leading universities.
We partner with other research institutions to create values for our industries and our society via innovation and technology advancement.
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R&D Focus of Power Technologies Electric Power Grid Reliability and Availability
Transmission and Distribution Systems Solutions HVAC, HVDC, FACTs
Utility Information Technologies: Monitoring, Automation, Control and Protection
Grid Capacity Optimization, Asset management
Energy Market Research Energy Market Operation and Monitoring Energy Market Risk Management
Manufacturing technologies Operation Excellent Production technology, business process improvement
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R&D Focus of Automation Technologies Software Architecture and Processes
Software Security Software Quality Testing and Process Improvement Software Technologies for System Improvement
Control and Optimization Plant Modeling Advanced Process Control Asset Management
Mechatronics and Robotics Easy Robot Programming Force Control Robot Learning
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Our University Partners
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