Dow, ABB agree on process expertise exchange

Dow Chemical signed a 10-year agreement on May 31 with ABB (Zurich, Switzerland) covering products, services, and an innovative two-way knowledge transfer. ABB and Dow report their agreement is different from similar supplier agreements because—besides Dow agreeing to use ABB products and services—Dow has committed to transfer its process expertise to ABB. This will allow ABB to incorporate Dow’s expertise into commercial products.

For more than 20 years, Dow developed and supported its own MOD control system because, until now, it was unable to find a commercially available system that met its high reliability standards and self-sufficient operational philosophy. ABB reports that Dow and ABB evaluation teams analyzed and assessed Dow’s complex operations, and demonstrated how ABB’s Industrial IT (information technology) architecture addresses Dow’s high reliability system requirements using ABB’s scalable Control IT products.

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