Introduction

The ABB Corporate Research Center in Baden-Dättwil, ABB Switzerland  creates power and automation technologies.
ABB Switzerland’s achievements include the invention of self-blast circuit breaker technology, the first fiber laser pressure sensor, the first high-temperature superconducting fault limiter and the world’s leading generator breaker.

ABB Switzerland’s focus areas include:

  • Automation
  • Power electronics
  • Energy and materials
  • Power products and systems

ABB Switzerland collaborate with leading universities around the world, such as MIT, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Cambridge, the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm and the Federal Institutes of Technology in Zurich and Lausanne.

Applications

Industry

Transmission & Distribution

Traction

Renewables