ABB DCS
Is ABB having major financial trouble? Have they ended the Bailey line or effectively they are?
Reason I'm asking is I've been working on a multimillion dollar upgrade for a month now. I've gotten precisely ONE email from the salesman, telling me that their new 810E and other 800 series DCS controllers are unreliable crap. So they want to instead sell the BRCs that are no longer made but aren't supposed to stop support for 5 years. On a $40 million USD project. Which means the project is dead when I cap the ROI at 5 years before we have to replace the DCS again. They also ONLY allow comms through Modbus TCP. And the web site is pure AI generated marketing nonsense devoid of any actual product information, manuals, anything. And it tells me something when they're charging $450/hour for in house support and no SI will touch it.
As it stands my next move is to escalate this crap. I'm done with them anyway. Already asking for buds from Rockwell, Schneider, and Emerson. I'm not jeopardizing this project with a garbage company that has apparently brought GE management on board. Neutron Jack has taken out Bailey.