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ABB AbilityTM Mobile Connect puts drive commissioning in the palm of the hand
Straub chose the ABB Ability Mobile Connect solution when it needed to commission its new drive. The company wanted more than traditional phone support, but with only a few parameters to be changed, the job didn’t require an onsite technician. Mobile Connect required only two onsite components: a smartphone with ABB’s Drivetune app and a Bluetooth-connected control panel on the drive.
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ABB AbilityTM Mobile Connect puts drive commissioning in the palm of the hand
Straub chose the ABB Ability Mobile Connect solution when it needed to commission its new drive. The company wanted more than traditional phone support, but with only a few parameters to be changed, the job didn’t require an onsite technician. Mobile Connect required only two onsite components: a smartphone with ABB’s Drivetune app and a Bluetooth-connected control panel on the drive.
ABB Ability Mobile Connect is an advanced function of the Drivetune mobile app, enabling remote access to drives on a case-by-case basis. The app can establish a direct connection to the support line run by ABB or by the service partner—in this case Max Lamb—in order to prevent failures and to ensure increased productivity.
The solution provides access to experts via smartphone with the option of exchanging voice and chat messages, images, videos, and data. This also includes the creation and transmission of parameter backups and support packages with adapted parameters to accelerate commissioning or troubleshooting.
To set the right parameters in the new drive, ABB’s partner Lamb used ABB Ability Mobile Connect to retrieve the parameters from the old drive. Motor data was imported into the parameter set, with current, rotation frequency, and torque limits adapted to the application.
When working with Mobile Connect, the customer’s onsite system maintenance engineer always has the final say for any setting changes to ensure safety and continuity of the production process. The app’s parameter set suggestion was checked by Straub’s maintenance engineer and copied into the new drive via smartphone.
To set the right parameters in the new drive, ABB’s partner Lamb used ABB Ability Mobile Connect to retrieve the parameters from the old drive. Motor data was imported into the parameter set, with current, rotation frequency, and torque limits adapted to the application.
When working with Mobile Connect, the customer’s onsite system maintenance engineer always has the final say for any setting changes to ensure safety and continuity of the production process. The app’s parameter set suggestion was checked by Straub’s maintenance engineer and copied into the new drive via smartphone.