In the first of a series of interviews with key ABB personnel, Neil Ritchie gives a taster as to what industry is demanding in 2013. A new term is set to become the 2013 buzzword for many industries. It's not original, it's not clever but it could be the most powerful term in decades. That term is "packages". It has been coined by ABB to define the bringing together of drives and controls products to relieve customers from the burden of trying to work out their own matched combinations. However, it is more than just bundling products together. It is about matching technologies to meet the energy efficiency demands of a plant, or meeting the restricted space in a panel or manufacturing unit, or reducing noise or harmonics - all while providing easy procurement and support.
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