ABB joins North American PTO 

ABB加入北美PTO協會

Organization helps develop and promote PROFIBUS and PROFINET in North America

組織幫助在北美開發和推廣PROFIBUS 和PROFINET標準

Wickliffe, Ohio, December 6, 2007 - ABB Inc. announced today that it has joined PTO North America. The PTO is one of 25 regional associations that develop and promote the use of PROFIBUS fieldbus and PROFINET Industrial Ethernet standards for automation. ABB has been actively working with the PNO (PROFIBUS and PROFINET Nutzerorganisation) in Germany since its inception in 1989 and is a member of the PNO Advisory Board.

俄亥俄Wickliffe12月6日消息——ABB公司今天宣布加入PTO北美協會。PTO是25個開發和推廣PROFIBUS現場總線和PROFINET工業以太網自動化標準的使用的區域性協會之一。ABB自PNO（PROFIBUS 和PROFINET組織）1989年在德國成立之時就積極和其合作，并且是PNO咨詢董事會的成員之一。

The PTO is dedicated to supporting the discrete and process industries in achieving beneficial results using fieldbuses, specifically PROFIBUS and PROFINET. The PTO also assists device manufacturers in the development and marketing of PROFIBUS and PROFINET products.

PTO致力于支持離散和流程工業，實現使用現場總線，特別是PROFIBUS和PROFINET技術的收益成果。PTO還協助設備制造商開發和推廣PROFIBUS 和PROFINET產品。

“We are pleased to welcome ABB as a new member of the PTO,” said Michael Bryant, executive director of PTO North America. “ABB has strongly demonstrated its commitment to helping its customers take advantage of the benefits offered by intelligent devices and integrated networks in its global activities; we are looking forward to working with them here in North America.”

PTO北美協會執行總裁Michael Bryant表示：“我們很高興歡迎ABB成為PTO新的一員。ABB在其全球性活動中已經強烈地表明了致力于幫助其客戶充分利用智能設備和集成網絡帶來的好處，我們期待著在北美同他們一起工作。”

ABB supports PROFIBUS and other fieldbus protocols in its numerous product and technology offerings for the industry and utility customers all over the world. ABB’s vast portfolio of products and solutions for process and manufacturing automation includes control systems, instrumentation, analytics, robotics, drives, motors, motor control centers, positioners, actuators, low voltage controls, switchgear, interface products and numerous other intelligent devices.

ABB向其全球各地工業和公用事業客戶交付的眾多產品和技術支持PROFIBUS和其他現場總線協議。ABB大量的過程制造自動化產品和解決方案組合包括控制系統、儀器儀表、分析儀、機器人、驅動、電機、電機控制衷心、定位器、傳動器、抵押控制、開關、接口產品以及許多其他智能設備。

The PTO is the non-profit, member-supported automation organization for communication solutions. Covering North America, PTO is one of 25 regional associations that make up PI (PROFIBUS and PROFINET International). Members of the PTO include vendors of hardware, software and systems as well as end users and operators, scientific institutes, universities, distributors, and system integrators.

PTO是一個非贏利性的、由成員支持的通信解決方案自動化組織。PTO覆蓋整個北美地區，是組成PI（PROFIBUS和PROFINET國際）的25個區域性協會之一。PTO的成員包括硬件供應商、軟件供應商、系統供應商以及終端客戶和操作人員、科研機構、大學、分銷商和系統集成商。

ABB is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 111,000 people.

ABB是電力和自動化技術領域的全球領導廠商，致力于為工業和電力行業客戶提供解決方案，以幫助客戶提高生產效率，同時降低對環境的不良影響。ABB集團的業務遍布全球100多個國家，擁有大約111,000名雇員。

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