Month: August 2025

Type designation

This is the unique reference number that clearly identifies

your drive by construction, power rating voltage and selected

options. By type designation you can specify your drives from

the wide range of available options, customer specific ones

are added to the type designation using the corresponding +code.

Functional safety

The ABB functional safety solution complies with the

requirements of the new European Union machinery directive

2006/42/EC. This directive is associated with standards

like IEC 62061 (Safety Integrity Level) and ISO 13849-1

(Performance Level), which require both a documented and

proven safety performance and lifecycle approach to safety.

Safe torque-off (STO) is a certified solution offering SIL2 and

PL d (Cat.2) safety levels.

ABB drives can be provided, as an option, with the safe

torque-off function. Safe torque-off (STO) can be used for

the prevention of unexpected startup and represents a

cost-effective and certified solution for basic safety. Other

safety functions for cabinet-built drives include Safe Stop 1

(SS1) and Safely-Limited Speed (SLS), which can be used to

achieve SIL2 or PL d (Cat.2) safety levels.

Industrial design

ABB industrial drives are designed with current ratings to

be used in industrial environment for applications requiring

high overloadability. The heart of the drive is DTC, direct

torque control, that provides high performance and significant

benefits: e.g. accurate static and dynamic speed and torque

control, high starting torque and long motor cables. 

Builtin drive options make the installation work fast and easy.

The robust enclosures and cabinets, with a wide range of

enclosure classes, as well as power terminals, are designed

for harsh environments.

One of the most significant design criteria of ABB industrial

drives has been the long lifetime. Wearing parts such as fans

and capacitors have been selected accordingly. This means

– together with extensive protection features – excellent

reliability in the demanding industrial market.

Single drives

The single drive configuration contains a rectifier, DC link and

an inverter in one single AC drive unit.

The single drives are complete AC drives that can be installed

without any additional cabinet or enclosure. The single drives

are available as wall-mounted, free-standing and cabinet-built

constructions. The protection degree of the single drives is at

least IP21, and higher protection degrees are available as an option.

ABB industrial drives

ABB industrial drives are designed for industrial applications,

and especially for applications in process industries such as

the pulp & paper, metals, mining, cement, power, chemical,

and oil & gas. ABB industrial drives are available both as

complete AC drives and as modules to meet the requirements

of the users, OEMs and system integrators. These drives are

highly flexible AC drives that can be configured to meet the

precise needs of industrial applications, and hence orderbased configuration is an integral part of the

offering. 

Thecomplete drives and drive modules cover a wide range of

powers and voltages, including industrial voltages up to

690 V. ABB industrial drives come with a wide range of builtin options. 

A key feature of these drives is programmability,

which makes adaptation to different applications easy.

ABB drives can be provided, as an option, with the safe

torque-off function. Safe torque-off (STO) can be used for

the prevention of unexpected startup and represents a

cost-effective and certified solution for basic safety. Other

safety functions for cabinet-built drives include Safe Stop 1

(SS1) and Safely-Limited Speed (SLS), which can be used to

achieve SIL2 or PL d (Cat.2) safety levels.

These make your new controllers able

to use ABB’s new S800 I⁄O system and

easily able to communicate, with other

external controllers, with ABB’s variable

speed motor drives and with smart

motor-control centers.

• More backup redundancy available,e.g.:

– Smarter solution to CPU redundancy,

eliminating critical, common, components,

– Full dual redundancy, covering,

media and communication in interfaces,

for S100 I/O and Advant Fieldbus 100.

• A self-tuning, adaptive process controller

(AC 450) that makes short work out

of setting up control loops accurately

and responsively, even in difficult applications.

• Fuzzy logic control, a control method

based on degrees of truths as opposed

to conventional binary logic that only

recognizes two states: true or false.

A control strategy that is often able to

untangle elegantly control problems

that are difficult to solve in other ways.

• Windows NT-based engineering tool,

You save money; StepUp includes:

• attractive prices on controller cabinets

with all the hardware and software required.

StepUp is program of ABB’s for upgrading

older process control equipment to the

latest Advant OCS solutions at particularly

favorable terms. The theme of the program

varies from time to time; this time the turn

has come to users of MasterPiece 200⁄1

controllers to upgrade to the latest Advant

Controller 400 series process controllers, at

substantially reduced prices.

You gain performance; Count on three to

five times the speed of your current

machine(s) (vs. Advant Controller 450) and

multiple amounts of more memory.

Higher processing speed and more

memory means more work done faster, as

well as more space for trend data storage.

You gain functionality; Advant Controller

400 series offers a number of important

functional improvements, e.g.:

• Support for a number of new, popular

communication protocols, e.g. Advant

Fieldbus 100, Profibus DP, LONWorks

and Allen-Bradley’s DF1.