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You should know that ABB is an acronym that stands for...
What is ASEA Brown Boveri?
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ABB's total company population: A. 112,000 employees B. 125,000 employees C. 132,000 employees D. 148,000 employees
What is 132,000?
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True or False - ABB is one of the largest companies in the world as listed on the Fortune 500 list.
True - ABB is ranked 286th largest company by revenue on the Fortune Global 500 list.
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ABB has four US Divisions, Power Grids, Industrial Automation, Electrification Products and .....
What is Robotics and Motion?
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In this year, the merger of ASEA of Sweden and Switzerland's Brown Boveri was completed to form ABB: A. 1883 B. 1891 C. 1952 D. 1988
What is 1988? ABB was founded in 1988 through a merger of ASEA (1883) and Brown Boveri (1891).
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You should know the two core businesses of ABB.
What is Power and Automation?
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ABB's population count in the United States: A. approximately 9,000 B. approximately 11,000 C. approximately 16,000 D. approximately 20,000
What is 20,000? ABB employs approximately 20,000 people in the US.
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ABB is traded on 3 stock exchanges, name one.
What is the SIX Swiss Exchange, Nasdaq Stockholm, and New York Stock Exchange?
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The Power Grids division has this many transformer and transformer component factories does ABB have in North America: a.) 2 b.) 4 c.) 6 d.) 8
What is 8? Canada - Quebec City & Varennes US - Alamo, TN; Bland, VA; Crystal Springs, MS; Jefferson City, MO; South Boston, VA; St. Louis, MO
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The name of ABB's organizational structure: A. Command and Control B. Decentralized C. Vertical D. Matrix
What is matrix organizational structure?
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You should know ABB's global headquarters is in which city and country.
What is Zürich, Switzerland?
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ABB collects facility data, including energy use, waste generation, and water use and publishes this data annually in a document called this.
What is a Sustainability Report? ABB's goal is to be recognized as a leading contributor to a more sustainable world through our unique business offering and sustainable business practices.
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The percentage of revenue from the sale of eco-efficient products is: A. 25% B. 33% C. 48% D. 55%
What is 55%
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This Business Unit sells products directly to consumers in home stores like Home Depot and Lowes.
What is EPIP or Thomas & Betts? Carlon and Ty-Rap brands are sold directly to the consumer in home stores.
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ABB robots were featured in this action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
What is "Terminator Salvation"? This was the 4th installment of the Terminator series.
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You should know the acronym names of ABB's four divisions.
What are EP, IA, PG, and RM?
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Approximate number of manufacturing & assembly plants in the United States (+/- 10%).
What is about 55? ABB has approximately 55 mfg/assy facilities in the US.
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ABB's total charitable donations and sponsorship contributions for 2016.
What is approximately 4 Million? ABB contributed approximately 2 Million to charity and 2 Million to sponsorships.
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ABB linked Connecticut and Long Island with the world’s first extruded HVDC submarine transmission, a 40 km HVDC Light cable with a power rating of 330 MW. HVDC stands for...
What is High Voltage Direct Current?
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This company was founded by Edwin Ball and Emil Dor. The name of the company was derived using part of each of their names.
What is Baldor? Baldor was founded in 1920 and joined ABB in 2011.
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You should know the 5 value-pairs for ABB.
What are Safety & Integrity, Customer Focus & Quality, Innovation & Speed, Ownership & Performance, and Collaboration & Trust?
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ABB has operations in approximately this many countries.
What is 100? ABB is one of the largest engineering companies in the world and has operations in around 100 countries.
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ABB's revenues for 2016 were 33.8 Billion. This Division contributed the greatest percentage. A. Electrification Products B. Industrial Automation C. Power Grids D. Robotics and Motion
What is Power Grids? Revenues by division are - EP (28%), IA (19%), PG (31%), and RM (22%)
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The name of ABB's innovative dual-arm robot, designed to work hand in hand with a person.
What is YuMi? YuMi systems are in the RM Division.
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The legacy names of at least 3 of ABB's business acquisitions.
What are Baldor, Combustion Engineering, Elsag Bailey, Power-One, Thomas & Betts, Ventyx, and Westinghouse to name a few...