First in the World – ABB Begins Manufacturing in U.S.

ABB Robot­ics is one of the lead­ers in the robot­ics indus­try. Based in Swe­den, ABB is an inter­na­tion­al com­pa­ny that pro­duces pow­er and automa­tion tech­nolo­gies. They are now the first glob­al com­pa­ny to com­mit to man­u­fac­tur­ing robots in the Unit­ed States. While many robot­ics com­pa­nies have branch­es in the U.S., their robots are man­u­fac­tured elsewhere.

Accord­ing to a press release from ABB, the com­pa­ny announced on May 20, 2015 that it is ful­ly com­mit­ted and invest­ed in its North Amer­i­can mar­ket by open­ing a robot­ics plant at their exist­ing Auburn Hills, Michi­gan loca­tion. ABB stat­ed that pro­duc­tion would com­mence imme­di­ate­ly. This is ABB’s third robot­ics man­u­fac­tur­ing plant, along with facil­i­ties in Shang­hai, Chi­na and Västerås, Sweden. 

The move to man­u­fac­ture in the U.S. makes sense because the Unit­ed States is ABB’s largest mar­ket, with $7.5 bil­lion in sales. ABB has invest­ed over $10 bil­lion in their North Amer­i­can foot­print since 2010 and has increased employ­ment by almost 15,000. This grand open­ing is anoth­er step in the company’s glob­al growth plan. The major­i­ty of con­trollers, robots, and oth­er prod­ucts pro­duced at the Auburn Hills facil­i­ty will be dis­trib­uted to cus­tomers in North Amer­i­ca. ABB stat­ed that by local­iz­ing man­u­fac­tur­ing, they are stream­lin­ing the deliv­ery process, which will sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce robot lead times for customers. 

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