ABB opens high accuracy flowmeter calibration facility
ABB has announced that in June it inaugurated a new process flowmeter calibration facility in its Minden factory in Germany. The company said the new calibration hall, which houses water and air calibration rigs, will strengthen the company’s calibration capabilities and provide customers with higher levels of quality and accuracy in process flowmeters. The new facility will also significantly reduce time-to-market and streamline production.
In a ceremony in Minden, ABB CEO Björn Rosengren cut the ribbon to the new calibration hall in the presence of ABB’s Peter Terwiesch, Business Area President, Process Automation; Reiner Seecker, Factory Manager, Minden; Jacques Mulbert, Division President, Measurement & Analytics; and Amina Hamidi, Business Line Manager Instrumentation.
“This is an important milestone for us. We are trusted by our customers to make some of the toughest measurement challenges easy,” said Jacques Mulbert, Division President, ABB Measurement & Analytics. “The new calibration hall is a great example of how we streamline our manufacturing capabilities to deliver the best products at the best price to our customers.”
The new hall houses two water calibration rigs for various process flowmeters, such as Coriolis, swirl and vortex flowmeters with a calibration accuracy of better than 0.1%. It also includes a density calibration rig for Coriolis flowmeters and air calibration rigs for the thermal mass flowmeter series. In the 1200 m2 hall, 375 m2 are available for air calibration and 525 m2 for water calibration.
ABB said the new capabilities will allow the Minden factory to increase its capacity by up to 30%, while increasing accuracy and enabling ABB to provide its global customer base even better and to reduce lead times.
In 2022, ABB also opened a new production hall for traction converters and energy storage systems for the railway industry at the Minden site.
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