{"id":57394,"date":"2026-04-29T03:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/57394\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T03:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:42:09","slug":"indian-engineers-rewrite-the-code-for-control-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/57394\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian engineers rewrite the code for control systems"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IndianMORTEN WIEROD, CEO, ABB: Breaking ground for yet another plant in India. A facility that\u2019s just been launched in Bengaluru will focus on producing UPS\u2019s for data centres. Data centres is today ABB\u2019s fastest growing business We met Morten Wierod, CEO of the $33-billion electrification and automation group ABB, at a brand new factory the company has set up in Bengaluru. It will focus on a new product category\u2014UPS (uninterruptible power supply) systems for data centres. \u201cWe see a very large pipeline now for data centres in India,\u201d Wierod tells us. ABB\u2019s next technology leap is being built around data centres and AI. A growing part of that work is also being shaped in India, where the Swedish-Swiss group has built large engineering, R&D and manufacturing capabilities that support both local and global customers. AI is driving a massive expansion in computing infrastructure, and that is pushing power demand to new levels. The data centre business was less than 1% of ABB\u2019s global revenue in 2019, today it is 9%. \u201cIt\u2019s the fastest growing segment for us, growing almost 35% every year,\u201d Wierod says. While UPS\u2019 sit next to the server racks inside a data centre, ABB\u2019s bigger business comes from the electrical infrastructure that sits just outside data centres, and which includes substations, medium-voltage switchgear, transformers, low-voltage systems, and power distribution equipment. Large AI data centres now require so much electricity that some are comparable to power plants, generating about 1 gigawatt of power. But another big shift is happening inside data centres. Nvidia\u2019s working towards a new 800-volt DC architecture\u2014from 48\/54-volt now\u2014to improve power efficiency. That will change how power is delivered to high-density computing racks. Today, racks may consume 100-150 kilowatts. New AI racks could need 1 megawatt. \u201cWe are working with Nvidia to design that next generation of data centres,\u201d Wierod says. These data centres are expected in 2028.Applying AI across industries AI is also changing ABB\u2019s own software and automation work. The focus is on applying AI across industries where ABB is strong and therefore has substantial domain knowhow. A lot of this work, Wierod says, is being led by ABB\u2019s team in Bengaluru. The centre has about 4,000 people. Around half work on R&D for new solutions\u2014over 75 patents have come out of this centre\u2014and the other half on project execution for global customers.\"World's<\/p>\n

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One striking example of innovation is a software that helps customers migrate from legacy control systems to new upgraded control systems. These systems are large and complex when used in an offshore platform to control oil & gas production or in refinery management. And customers sometimes want to move to a different brand when upgrading. \u201cChanging such a system is a massive exercise. We had a team in Paris which used to do this conversion in about three months. With the software we\u2019ve built here, we are now able to do it in half a day,\u201d Sanjeev Sharma, MD of ABB India, says. The India team has also built Genix, an AI layer that sits on top of control systems. Industrial control systems generate large volumes of data from plants. Genix, Sharma says, uses that data to provide deeper insights and help customers make better decisions on production and maintenance. The India centre has also helped build domain-specific AI agents for sectors like cement, steel and chemicals. These agents are trained on ABB\u2019s internal reports, maintenance records and process knowledge. \u201cIf you today ask ChatGPT how to run a cement plant, you don\u2019t get very good answers,\u201d Wierod says. But ABB\u2019s AI agent for cement plants, built using its domain expertise, acts like a first-response service assistant. It can help operators understand control-system issues, give advice, and help ABB engineers identify the right spare parts before visiting a site. \u201cTeams in India have been core to these advances,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORTEN WIEROD, CEO, ABB: Breaking ground for yet another plant in India. A facility that\u2019s just been launched…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[130],"tags":[232,31968,16629,31969,31970],"class_list":["post-57394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-abb","tag-abb","tag-ai-in-control-systems","tag-data-centres","tag-genix-ai","tag-uninterruptible-power-supply"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116485930716221743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}