) to develop products to improve the productivity of factories by linking up industrial sensors with controllers and computer systems.
ABB said it was abolishing the role as part of Rosengren’s plan to slim down its centralized functions and to be closer to customers. Rosengren last week outlined his vision to decentralize the company, whose business runs form electrical charging stations to industrial robots. Under the shake-up, ABB Ability will be managed by each of the 18 separate divisions and no longer centrally from the company’s office in Silicon Valley.
“ABB Ability and our digital platform will remain an essential part of our business going forward,” the spokesman said. “We have more than 160 digital solutions and we want to push forward our partnership with our current customers by bringing together software with our installed base.”
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