ABB Ability Solution Suite vs Expandable

Likelihood to Recommend

Of course this is the one of the best solution available in the market at present. When you have Multiple system in a plant then you need a powerful tool for Computation which Ability does it smoothly.

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Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employees

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Expandable fits our companies needs quite well to manage inventory, sales orders, and purchasing. We recently started to also use Expandable to track ECN changes. The ECN functionality is a little limited in the fact it is difficult to add descriptions or parts affected after it has been implemented. I would recommend having an additional program for managing ECN history

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Feature Rating Comparison

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Expandable

API for custom integration

Plug-ins

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Expandable

Single sign-on capability

Role-based user permissions

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Expandable

Inventory tracking

Location management

Manufacturing module

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Expandable

Pricing

Order entry

Cost of goods sold

End-to-end order visibility

Order exception Resolution

Order Orchestration

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Expandable

Project Planning and Scheduling

Project Manager Dashboard

Resource Manager Dashboard

Task Insight for Project Managers

Project Manager Mobile Functionality

Team Member Task Collaboration

Team Member Mobile Functionality

Project Candidate Search

Project Candidate Comparison and Analysis

Defineable Resource Pools

Talent Profiles

Real-Time Project Reporting

Absence Management

Product Lifecycle Management

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Expandable

Production Process Design

Supply Chain Business Flows

Production Management

Contracted Manufacturing Management

Configuration Management

Work Definition

Work Execution

Advanced Fulfillment

Manufacturing Costs

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Expandable

Forecasting

Inventory Planning

Multi-tier Supply Chain Planning

Performance Monitoring

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Expandable

Ideation Management

Requirements Management

Proposal Management

Innovation Portfolio Management

Product Master Data Management

Vendor Portal

Project Portfolio Management

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Expandable

Dashboards

Standard reports

Custom reports

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Expandable

Accounts payable

Accounts receivable

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Expandable

Period Close

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Expandable

Award Lifecycle Management

Indirect Cost Management

Pros

Computation of data.
Presentation to right person.
Ability to perform critical task and sending to users.
Multiple control system connectivity.

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Great way for everyone on the team to see the same information - sales orders, inventory, purchase orders etc
The support team is always very responsive!!
Very customizable to create links between screens

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Cons

May be for smaller PLCs this can't be implemented.
Cost may an area ABB can look in to.
Improvement in GUI

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Data entry on certain tasks can be very tedious (for example effected parts on an ECN)
Sometimes data connections for upload are very slow or just flat out fail multiple times. The problem is intermittent so difficult for support to track and fix
Certain fields cannot be pulled on a report and require engineering time to create a process to add functionality. It would be nice to have unfiltered access to all fields

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Usability

ABB Ability Solution Suite 10.0

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One of the best solutions in the market with a user-friendly system. This is very useful when the ABB system (Like we had 800xA) is there, new or existing; all the ABB systems can be integrated using this rather than going to a 3rd party vendor, which may have interface problems.

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Support Rating

ABB Ability Solution Suite 10.0

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Good support in terms of quality and promptness. When we had problems with some of the commands not getting executed, their online support also provided a good solution to solve the problem. Even mission-critical task we were able to solve during this Pandemic time. The suggestion is to go for the online support 1st in the future, followed by a visit.

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Alternatives Considered

Better suited for the ABB System as Microsoft is a third party for ABB Control System.

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Return on Investment

Positive is definitely ROI since manual intervention is minimized and the process is automated.
Cost wise, ABB has been looked upon considering the small industry.
Overall, a good solution for a large companies.

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Helps to provide accurate lead times to customers.
Accurate revision recording for customer support

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Expandable

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Expandable

ABB Ability Solution Suite

Expandable