Smart apps improve tracking, controlling and analysing of ABB Drives.

Mobile devices are seen everywhere these days, and in 2014 more than a billion smartphones were sold globally: a growth of around 28% from 2013. Smart phones and tablets are also making their way into commercial and manufacturing environments including automation, to monitor, control, troubleshoot and manage different types of industrial devices.

Industrial devices are also getting smarter; they can report statuses, talk to other similar devices and draw conclusions based on those talks. Everything is getting connected which will result in massive amounts of data for us to refine into information and wisdom.

Two such mobile apps recently introduced by ABB are Drivebase and Drivetune.

Drivebase – Database for Drives

Drivebase is a mobile app for keeping track of your drives and their operation. In addition to a drive fault analysis, Drivebase provides the user with service recommendations, capability to report service actions, easy access to product manuals and search function for ABB contacts. A drive can also be registered to get an additional warranty.

Drivebase is all about keeping track of the installed base of drives, providing users with rapid support and easy access to the different services that ABB provides for drives. Drivebase is free and available in Apple App Store, Google Play and Windows Store.

Drivetune – Tuning Drives with a Friendly Dashboard

Drivetune is an advanced mobile app for monitoring and controlling drives. It allows the user to see the status of the drive on the Drivetune dashboard and perform drive commissioning via an easy to use interface. The app connects to the drive over Bluetooth, enabling data exchange in both directions. This feature will be also used as the basis for future uses and development.

Drivetune is free and available in Google Play, iOS version will be released in the near future.

ABB drives, will continue to develop these apps in response to user feedback as a means to improving interfaces, improve access to drive status, services and support.

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