New ABB Ability Liquid Routing Library launched for food and beverage production
The new digital application draws on ABB Ability System 800xA, the most powerful Distributed Control System (DCS) automation platform in the market and will support the routing and cleaning in place (CIP) functionalities needed for liquid-led production.
It can be used wherever products are transported, stored or processed in tanks and lines and is particularly relevant to dairy, brewing, sugar, mills and edible oil application programming.
Ready-made objects including libraries, typicals, and templates for product routing, with recipe-based CIP, track and trace, preventive plant maintenance, Excel-based bulk data tools are made available for customers through the library.
Functionalities include alarm handling, alarm propagation between different units, queue handling for online production changes, control and supervision of process objects, interlocks and transfer of product and equipment settings like product codes, unit names and unit states.
“ABB Ability Liquid Routing Library will support our food and beverage customers in their digitalization journey,” said Gernut van Laak, global food and beverage solution manager and dairy & beverage specialist in the ABB Process Industries Division of ABB.
“Customers are driving innovation in process automation, digitalizing their production sites for greater speed, consistency and quality and Liquid Routing Library is an important piece of this jigsaw. Having a complete library for product routing, with ready-made objects and templates will allow users greater visibility and understanding of what is happening at each stage of the process.
“We know that routing and cleaning in place support are vitally important in food and beverage plants. This is built-in and at-any-stage ABB support from experts or additional documentation is available. Operators will be able to diagnose issues quicker than before and have solutions ready, ultimately saving time and money.”
It is estimated the library will reduce project specific library development time by 80% and the project specific software requirements by 60%, minimizing the cost of developing an automation solution while maximizing plant operability.
The use of the Liquid Routing Library creates a streamlined environment for reliable control via a dynamic interface that gives operators access to the whole plant and different layers of information. This can improve operator effectiveness by 25%.
