ABB customers getting system upgrades

Three ABB customers have recently ordered upgrades to systems essential for their production, the Switzerland-based company says.

Mediaworks, publisher of many papers in Hungary, has ordered an upgrade to its print production management system, MPS Production. The latest version of MPS Production 6 will go into service at the start of next year. In addition, they have also ordered hardware upgrades to their press control consoles.

Singapore Press Holdings, publisher of titles such as the Straits Times, has ordered software upgrades for the 16 control consoles on their KBA Commander presses at their Jurong print site. The new consoles on the first of the four presses will be commissioned at the end of February 2019. The work includes the transfer of a series of SPH-specific functions to the new platform as well as an upgraded interface to their WPC register control system.

Rhein-Neckar Zeitung in Heidelberg, Germany, has ordered hardware upgrades for its six control consoles. The hardware upgrades will be delivered in November 2018.

ABB is a Switzerland-based automation supplier to the newspaper industry and serves customers in utilities, industry and transport and infrastructure globally. 

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