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ABB Wins Innovation Award

By Design World Staff | May 16, 2008

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The device, called Wivib, has been developed in collaboration with external partners for use on small motors. Analysis of data about the vibrations of a motor enables abnormalities in its performance to be identified at an early stage.

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The Spotlight on New Technology prize was awarded to ABB at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, one of the industry’s main trade fairs, where the product was shown for the first time. Wivib, one of several new products to win the award at OTC, is expected to be ready for market in 2009.


The device has an expected lifetime of five years and will reduce the cost of maintenance as well as extend the lifetime of electric motors. The sensor is Ex-proof certified (certified for operation in hazardous environments) and is ideal for use in the offshore sector. In principle, however, it can be used in all industrial sectors with the same benefits.


Wivib is being jointly developed by ABB’s oil and gas business unit in Norway and Corporate Research in Sweden, in cooperation with SKF, an oil products and services company, and Sintef, an independent research organization based in Norway. In addition, the project is receiving financial support from the Research Council of Norway through its Petromaks programme, as well as from several oil companies including StatoilHydro and BP.


Birkemoe and Borghild Lunde, ABB’s head of technology for oil, gas and petrochemicals, received the award on the opening day of the conference.


“The prize reflects the fact that there are many others besides ourselves who see this as an important area of technology development,” said Birkemoe.


The product is based on the new Wireless HART communications protocol, which was ratified in September 2007.

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