ABB Wins Robotic Systems Order From United States Postal Service.NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 1, 1999-- ABB n. 1. Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, Noun 1. ABB - an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s has received an order worth more than $66 million from the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Postal Service postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were organized in the Persian Empire under Cyrus, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval for 100 robotic containerization con·tain·er·ize v.tr. con·tain·er·ized, con·tain·er·iz·ing, con·tain·er·iz·es 1. To package (cargo) in large standardized containers for efficient shipping and handling. 2. systems. The systems will be used to sort open and closed trays and tubs of mail, and to place them into containers or palletize pal·let·ize tr.v. pal·let·ized, pal·let·izing, pal·let·izes To store or move (freight, for example) by means of pallets. pal them in a pattern on a pallet. "We believe this to be the largest single order for robotic systems outside the automotive industry," said Silas Nichols, president of ABB Flexible Automation Inc. - Manufacturing Industry and Robotics Group of New Berlin, Wis., the ABB unit that won the order. The systems are scheduled to be installed in postal processing and distribution centers and in airmail airmail, transport of mail by airplanes. Demonstration flights that showed the feasibility of carrying mail by air were made in Great Britain and in the United States in 1911. and bulk mail facilities, a total of 51 sites throughout the United States. Installation is scheduled to begin in February 2000 and to be completed by November 2000. Mr. Nichols cited several reasons that ABB and its system were chosen: ABB offered the best technical solution and proposal. ABB's system offered the best throughput and accuracy of sortation Identifying objects that are stamped with a bar code and routing them to the appropriate destination. Sortation is typically a high-speed process used in the transportation industry by companies such as Federal Express, UPS and others. See sort and bar code. . In addition, the ABB system offers a user-friendly graphical interface of the sortation scheme and a unique, patented gripper design. Photographs of the robot are displayed on the ABB USA website at http://www.us.abb.com/usa ABB Flexible Automation is a leading supplier of robot products and systems, paint automation and systems, and customer service used in a wide range of industrial and automotive applications. ABB has an installed base worldwide of more than 70,000 robots. This year ABB Flexible Automation is celebrating its 25th anniversary in robotics. ABB, with U.S. headquarters in Norwalk, Conn., serves customers in power generation, transmission, and distribution; automation; oil, gas, and petrochemicals; industrial products and contracting; and financial services. ABB had U.S. orders of approximately $6.1 billion in 1998 and employed about 20,000 at manufacturing and other facilities in 41 states. Worldwide, ABB Group reported orders of $31 billion in 1998. The Group employs about 175,000 people in more than 100 countries http://www.abb.com/. |
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