ABB releases latest version of Industrial ECS Enterprise Connectivity Solutions

ABB has released the newest version of its Industrial ECS Enterprise Connectivity Solutions; this release includes enhancements for quicker integration of systems, improved performance, and simplified user interface. ECS provides a streamlined, single point interface for vertical integration between plant and enterprise business systems for improved productivity, flexibility, quality control and reduced order-to-cash cycle.

"This latest version of our ECS Enterprise Connectivity Solutions provides the robust, reliable interface that customers in all industries need to integrate their business and process systems. This helps them realise dramatic cost and efficiency savings," said Rauli Hantikainen, Vice President, CPM Operations, ABB. "We have made this solution easier to use and deploy, for more rapid and simplified integration that will help our customers to reap the full operational benefit and competitive advantage from connecting all of their existing enterprise solution investments."

Part of ABB's Collaborative Production Management (CPM) portfolio, ECS helps customers become more competitive in the global marketplace by providing one standard interface that connects automation and business systems for information access and exchange, eliminating the need for multiple customised and complex system interfaces. It provides connectivity between manufacturing solutions, including ABB's award winning Industrial System 800xA, as well as non-ABB DCS systems, other CPM solutions, and enterprise systems such as SAP, Oracle or Microsoft. Additionally, ECS can integrate database systems, OPC-compliant systems or Web Service enabled systems.

The latest release of ECS streamlines the integration process even further, with several new features makeing it more flexible and easier to implement. Online redundancy provides reliable integration for implementation while processes are running. Several enhancements simplify interface deployment, such as improved Drag and Drop process definition, improved logging and model debugging, and easier to use and understand graphics. These enhancements extend the capability of this robust integration solution; ECS has been successfully deployed and delivered significant results for customers in the chemicals, food and beverage, life sciences, pulp and paper, mining, cement and discrete manufacturing industries all over the world.

ABB's Collaborative Production Management (CPM) solutions integrate all manufacturing systems, providing the real-time visibility, execution, tracking, reporting, and optimising of manufacturing processes. This results in decreasing costs through better production scheduling, execution and management, and increases revenues through improved customer service and product quality, to increase profits and enhance shareholder value.