ABB Ltd. Overview
Company Headquarters: Zürich, Switzerland
Founded: 1988
Workforce: 134,800
Company Working: ABB Ltd., is a pioneering technology leader that works closely with utility, industry, transport, and infrastructure customers. The company has its operations in four segments, namely, electrification products, robotics and motion, industrial automation, and power grids. Under electrification products, ABB manufactures and sells products and services including electric vehicle charging, solar inverters, modular substation packages, switchgear, UPS solutions, circuit breakers, control products, wiring accessories, enclosures and cabling systems, and intelligent home and building solutions designed to integrate and automate the lighting, heating and ventilation, and security and data communication networks. For the industrial automation sector, the company develops and sells integrated automation and electrification systems and solutions. These systems and solutions are process and discrete control solutions, advanced process control software and manufacturing execution systems, sensing, measurement and analytical instrumentation and solutions, electric ship propulsion systems, as well as they are solutions for modern machine and factory automation and large turbochargers.
The company offers a complete range of transformers for transmission and distribution of power. ABB manufactures, both, liquid-filled, and dry-type transformers. Th company also provides services related to life-cycle costs and replacement parts and components. The company has delivered more than 20,000 power transformers, which include over twenty 800 kV UHVDC and over five hundred 735 - 765 kV AC units.
The company has operations in more than 100 countries. ABB Ltd. chiefly operates in regions such as the US, Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The subsidiaries of the firm include B&R, Busch Jaeger, Baldor Electric Company, Thomas & Betts, and Power-One Inc.



