THE local subsidiary of the Swiss-Swedish engineering company urged the government to ramp up its infrastructure projects to help develop the local economy to catapult into progress.
“With the Philippines experiencing rapid population growth and continuous expansion of businesses, the country needs to improve its infrastructure,” said Olivier Christophe Coquerel, president and country managing director ABB in the Philippines in a recent interview with the BusinessMirror.
In the World Economic Forum Index 2017-2018, inadequate supply of infrastructure was ranked the second most problematic factors for doing business in the Philippines. As a result of the country’s poor infrastructure, Manila is not getting a big number of investors to boost job generation and investments.
Coquerel said the company is also interested to participate in the government’s “Build, Build, Build” program particularly in the construction of power plants.
He said ABB Philippines offers power and automation solutions which are now available upon the needs of the clients. He added the company is ready to assist companies that are transitioning into the digital technology. “We have more than 180 solutions that can be deployed to clients anytime when needed.”
ABB is the company’s unified, cross-industry, digital offering—from device edge to cloud — with devices, systems, solutions, services and a platform that enable the customers to achieve higher operating efficiencies.
Through its ABB Life Expectancy Analysis Program (ABB LEAP), Coquerel said power plants can now craft maintenance plans to make the plants more efficient reduce downtime.
Coquerel said ABB Ability has also an early warning capability maintenance planning. It has optimized maintenance planning that allows a company to move from time-based to condition-based maintenance.
Under its reduced cost of ownership feature, Coquerel leads in decision-making aspects on short- and long-term maintenance and run/repair/retrofit/replace options and pushes on improved risk mitigation to minimize unplanned downtime by reducing risk level.
Furthermore, the ABB Ability solutions are focusing on cloud-based data and analytics from clients to give them real-time analyses. “Smart sensors provide information to the technicians to ensure the customer they are operating the proper budget,” he said. “We do a lot of studies on what needs to be done in big projects such as airports and government buildings, hotels, casinos,” he said.
“ABB also wants to join in developing green projects as it is high time to pursue sustainability in construction projects.”