(ABB: Zürich, Switzerland) -- ABB has launched its new ABB Ability Performance Optimization Service for cold rolling mills, offering steel, aluminium, and other metals manufacturers opportunities to reach new levels of operational performance through technology, boosting their processes and profitability.

The new service—part of ABB’s metals digital portfolio and Collaborative Operations for Metals suite—combines continuous performance monitoring using ABB Ability Data Analytics for cold rolling mills, with real-time support from ABB experts. ABB will work alongside customers with the vision of continuing to transform the metals industry.

The data analytics component uses process-specific algorithms based on a century of metals domain expertise to collect high-frequency data from mill control systems and discover trends, benchmarks and other performance factors, sending alerts to operators and maintenance when opportunities to optimize performance are identified.

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