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Optimizing performance of electrical powertrains with ABB Crealizer™
The challenge
The electrification of industrial processes is advancing, and traditional movers like turbines and combustion heaters and or DOL motors are replaced with electrical powertrains. Although industrial variable frequency drives (VFD) are designed to turn the electric motors based on torque or speed reference, the performance and efficiency for various applications can be optimized.
For example, the potential for performance or energy optimization may be due to site conditions that differ from those assumed in the design, lack of application-specific control features, or even incorrect parameterization due to human error.
What is the solution we are seeking from startups?
We are looking for innovative creators, that use their knowhow to create advanced applications to extend the capabilities of our ABB industrial drives.
Some examples for inspiration:
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Autotuning solutions to improve controller behavior and hence increase process quality and stability.
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Automatic detection of no-load situations could trigger automatically an “eco-mode” and help saving energy.
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If you are experienced with self-enforced learning, you might find innovative ways to identify anomalies and define counteractions to reduce torsional vibrations or increase the through-put of the customer process.
So if you already have solutions or ideas to make industrial processes more efficient, help saving energy or increase the availability with analytics then try developing it with ABB Crealizer™ and integrated in the ABB Drives ecosystem.
What is the impact of the solution for the market/customers?
With your solution customers can increase the process throughput, save energy or increase the uptime of the production line.
Key technologies and applications addressed in the challenge:
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ABB Crealizer™ is a new open software platform integrated into ABB drives operating system to empower you to create, validate and realize customized solutions specific to the needs of your business.
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Crealizer™ performs and measures in real time, so you have instant access to faster data collection, higher accuracy, rapid prototyping and validation.
Focus Segments:
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Same solution can be used in various industry segments when building machines. These industries with related applications include e.g., Oil & Gas, Marine, Metals, Wind, Mining & Cement, Pulp & Paper, Water & Wastewater
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Pumps, Fans, are good applications to start with, while Compressors, Conveyors, hoists, mills are more advanced and interesting applications.
Additional links:
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ABB Motion System Drives
ABB System Drives is a global supplier of high-power, high-performance drives, drive systems and packages for industrial processes and large infrastructure applications.
With our industry leading technology and global support, we help our customers, partners and equipment manufacturers with asset reliability, performance improvement and energy efficiency in mission critical applications.
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Winners Package
Collaboration financing
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$30,000 to collaborate and develop the solution (MVP – Minimal viable product) with ABB
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Opportunity to show and share the solution in a pilot or customer test case
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Access to lab environments we jointly use with customers, allowing ABB customers to actively experience the solution and share their feedback
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ABB Startup Challenge 2025
Hosted by ABB & SynerLeap, Partnered by Microsoft
ABB
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By bringing startups, ABB, industrial partners and our customers together through our innovation growth hub SynerLeap, we ignite innovation transfer across industries, ranging from industrial automation, and robotics to grid technologies, smart cities, buildings and transportation technologies. So far we have created more than 260 collaborations, together with our 240 startup members from 26 countries. SynerLeap brings in up to 4 new members monthly, and one new ABB collaboration is starting every week. Sandvik, Microsoft, Hitachi Energy and IBM are just a few examples of our partners that together bring value into our entrepreneurial ecosystem. We are open to international members!
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Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft)
Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. With the dedicated Microsoft for Startups Program, Microsoft helps cloud-based startups with a B2B focus growand scale through a global ecosystem of customers and partners. The focus is on building a long-term partnership with the startup, while ensuring thatintellectual property is always owned by the inventors and founders.
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