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This excerpt taken from the ABB 20-F filed Mar 10, 2009. This excerpt taken from the ABB 20-F filed Mar 19, 2008. Process Automation The financial results of our Process Automation division were as follows:
This excerpt taken from the ABB 20-F filed Apr 19, 2006. Process Automation The Process Automation business area offers integrated process control and information management systems and industry-specific application knowledge for a variety of industries, primarily pulp and paper, minerals and mining, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, power and the marine industry. Our control systems are used in such applications as batch management, asset optimization, energy management and safety control. They are the hubs that link instrumentation, devices and systems for control and supervision of an industrial process and enable customers to integrate their production systems with their enterprise, resource and planning systems, thereby providing a link to their ordering, billing and shipping processes. This link allows customers to manage their entire manufacturing and business process based on real-time access to plant information. Additionally, it allows customers to employ information received from instrumentation and measurement products to increase production efficiency, optimize their assets and reduce environmental waste. The business area emphasizes Open Control Systems, including batch control systems, supervisory control and data acquisition systems, and, to a lesser extent, programmable logic controls (PLCs) and remote terminal units (RTUs). Batch control systems control the production of a variety of products in shorter runs, such as certain pharmaceuticals and food and beverage products. Supervisory control and data acquisition systems are used to collect and manage data over wide areas or long distances such as those involved in operating electric power networks. The business area’s product offerings for the pulp and paper industries include quality control systems for pulp and paper mills, control systems, drive systems, on-line sensors, actuators and field instruments. 27 On-line sensors measure product properties, such as weight, thickness, color, brightness, moisture content and additive content. Actuators allow the customer to make automatic adjustments during the production process to improve the quality and consistency of the product. Field instruments measure properties of the process, such as flow rate, chemical content and temperature. We offer our customers in the metals and minerals industries specialized products and services, as well as total production systems. We design, plan, engineer, supply, erect and commission electric equipment, drives, motors and equipment for automation and supervisory control within a variety of areas including mining, mineral handling, aluminum smelting, hot and cold steel applications and cement production. In the oil and gas sector, we provide onshore, offshore and subsea production technology, gas gathering and processing, refining, transportation and distribution applications. In the pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals areas, the business area provides software and solutions for applications including manufacturing, packaging, quality control and compliance with regulatory agencies. In the marine field, we provide global shipbuilders with power and automation technologies for luxury cruise liners, ferries, tankers, offshore oil rigs and special purpose vessels. We design, engineer, build, supply and commission electrical systems and software for marine power generation, power distribution and diesel electric propulsion, as well as turbochargers to improve efficiency for diesel and gasoline engines. We also offer full-service contracts across all of our customer segments, in which we take over in-house maintenance activities for customers and apply strategies to reduce overall maintenance costs and helps optimize these investments. Demand for our process automation services is increasing as our customers seek to increase productivity by improving the performance of existing assets. This excerpt taken from the ABB 6-K filed Feb 17, 2006. Process Automation, orders
increased in the fourth quarter compared to the same quarter in 2004 in most
industry sectors and all regions except the Middle East and Africa, where a
large order for a natural gas compressor station in Algeria was booked in the
year-earlier period. As a result of that contract, orders in the oil and gas
business were comparatively lower than the year-earlier period. Orders from
Asia were up more than 50 percent compared to the same quarter in 2004. Order
growth was highest in the marine and minerals businesses. Turbocharging orders
also grew, while orders in chemicals were flat. The pulp and paper industry
showed some signs of recovery in the U.S. from very low levels and orders were
higher in the quarter. Revenues for the quarter were flat as increases in the
marine and minerals businesses were offset by lower revenues in other industry
sectors. EBIT and EBIT margin increased in the fourth quarter compared to the
same quarter in 2004, mainly as a result of better project execution, benefits
from earlier productivity improvement programs and an increase in service
revenues.
Orders were lower in This excerpt taken from the ABB 6-K filed Oct 28, 2005. Process Automation,
orders improved in dollar and local currency terms in the third quarter
compared to the same quarter in 2004. Order growth was led by the marine,
service and turbochargers businesses. Process Automation orders in Asia more
than doubled compared to the same quarter a year ago as continued steady growth
in India was augmented by a return to order growth in China and an oil refinery
order in Thailand of more than $100 million. Orders in the Americas were
lower, with flat growth in North America and a decrease in South America.
Orders decreased in western Europe compared to a very strong third quarter in
2004. Orders in eastern Europe were lower compared to the same period in 2004
during which a large order was booked in Poland.
Orders were lower in This excerpt taken from the ABB 6-K filed Jul 28, 2005. Process
Automation, orders improved by more than 10 percent in dollar and
local currency terms in the second quarter compared to the same quarter in
2004. Orders were higher in all business units except for pulp and paper, where
demand remains weak. Orders grew in all regions. In Asia, order growth in India
and several other countries more than offset lower orders in China. Higher
orders in the Americas were driven by growth of more than 10 percent in local
currencies in North America, where a new emphasis on treating the region as a
single market helped win a number of new orders. In Europe, order growth was
driven by industrial demand in western Europe. Orders were flat in eastern
Europe.
Orders were also higher in This excerpt taken from the ABB 20-F filed May 27, 2005. Process Automation The Process Automation business area offers integrated process control and information management systems for a variety of industries, primarily pulp and paper, minerals and mining, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, and the marine industry. Our control systems are used in such applications as batch management, asset optimization, energy management and safety control. They are the hubs that link instrumentation, devices and systems for control and supervision of an industrial process and enable customers to integrate their production systems with their enterprise, resource and planning systems, thereby providing a link to their ordering, billing and shipping processes. This link allows customers to manage their entire manufacturing and business process based on real-time access to plant information. Additionally, it allows customers to employ information received from instrumentation and measurement products to increase production efficiency, optimize their assets and reduce environmental waste. The business area emphasizes Open Control Systems, including batch control systems, supervisory control and data acquisition systems, and, to a lesser but increasing extent, programmable logic controls ("PLCs") and remote terminal units ("RTUs"). Batch control systems control the production of a variety of products in shorter runs, such as certain pharmaceuticals and food and beverage products. Supervisory control and data acquisition systems are used to collect and manage data over wide areas or long distances such as those involved in operating electric power networks. The business area's product offerings for the pulp and paper industries include quality control systems for pulp and paper mills, control systems, drive systems, on-line sensors, actuators and field instruments. On-line sensors measure product properties, such as weight, thickness, color, brightness, moisture content and additive content. Actuators allow the customer to make automatic adjustments during the production process to improve the quality and consistency of the product. Field instruments measure properties of the process, such as flow rate, chemical content and temperature. We offer our customers in the metals and minerals industries specialized products and services, as well as total production systems. We design, plan, engineer, supply, erect and commission electric equipment, drives, motors and equipment for automation and supervisory control within a variety of areas including mining, mineral handling, aluminum smelting, hot and cold steel applications and cement production. In the oil and gas sector, we provide onshore, offshore and subsea production technology, gas gathering and processing, refining, transportation and distribution applications. In the pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals areas, the business area provides software and solutions for applications including manufacturing, packaging, quality control and compliance with regulatory agencies. 30 In the marine field, we provide global shipbuilders with power and automation technologies for luxury cruise liners, ferries, tankers, offshore oil rigs and special purpose vessels. We design, engineer, build, supply and commission electrical systems and software for marine power generation, power distribution and diesel electric propulsion, as well as turbochargers to improve efficiency for diesel and gasoline engines. We also offer full-service contracts across all of our customer segments, in which we take over in-house maintenance activities for customers and apply strategies to reduce overall maintenance costs and helps optimize these investments. | EXCERPTS ON THIS PAGE:
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