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Mikko Lepistö, Vice President of software and automation operations at ABB

ABB Invests in

New Marine R&D Lab

ABB, already well-regarded for its board, an outcome of ABB’s commit- continuous investment in R&D in the ment to the Internet of Things, Services maritime market, has strengthened this and People. “Digitalization allows own- commitment with the opening of a new ers to monitor remotely entire ? eets us- laboratory. The new R&D facility is in ing cloud services,” said Lepistö. “When

Helsinki next to the Azipod factory, and data collected by automation systems is it is designed to bring together all ABB’s utilized in the most optimal way, we can offerings for the shipping industry under save both costs and environment. The one roof. The facility will be used by 30 Internet of Things, Services and People

ABB engineers dedicated to marine re- opens new possibilities for the marine search, and also to demonstrate products industry and especially for the develop- to customers. In addition, it will sup- ment of the service business.” port the pillars of ABB’s marine tech- nologies, including: automation, remote control systems, propulsion, integrated operations and waste heat recovery sys- tems. “We are constantly testing and de- veloping new technologies,” said Mikko

Lepistö, VP of software and automation operations at ABB. “This laboratory is a wonderful step forward and enables a full range of innovation activities, now that all of our marine systems can be tested and developed in the same place.”

The lab will fully use the Integrated

Operations concept which joins up the shore operation to what happens on-

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