ABB Collaborates with Beiren to Drive Digital Transformation for China Printing Machinery Industry

ABB signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Beiren Intelligent Equipment Technology Co., Ltd.(Beiren), the largest printing machinery manufacturer in China today to provide state-of-the-art digital solutions and automation technologies which will help to support smart manufacturing and accelerate digital upgrade in China's printing machinery sector. The two parties will also share research and development resources and make joint efforts to boost innovation.

Under the agreement, ABB will provide comprehensive intelligent solutions including smart sensors, low voltage products and systems, switchgears, control systems and drive systems, and also help the customer build digital operation system with ABB manufacturing execution systems (MES) and cloud-based platform. In addition, the two parties will explore the approaches to the value-added business by leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies. The collaboration will also promote the development in digital design, modeling and simulation platform as well as talent cultivation.

As a pioneering technology leader and digital champion, ABB is committed to becoming the partner of choice to support manufacturing transformation and upgrade. Based on the more than 130 years of innovation history and 40 years of rich experience in industrial digitalization, ABB Ability™, the unified, cross-industry digital capability of ABB from device to edge to cloud, will combine the latest innovations in information technology and leading automation technologies together with the rich industry expertise of Beiren, to help customers in the printing industry improve production efficiency and reduce operation and maintenance cost for all-round value creation.