IN Brief:
- ABB has completed Ethernet-APL rollout across its flow portfolio by adding the technology to CoriolisMaster.
- In food and beverage, ABB already positions CoriolisMaster in dairy, brewery, edible oil, meat, and dosing applications, including hygienic models.
- The update adds faster field-level data access, remote diagnostics, and Ethernet-based integration to an established mass flow platform.
ABB has added Ethernet-APL connectivity to its CoriolisMaster mass flowmeter range, completing the integration of the communication technology across the company’s flow measurement portfolio.
For food and beverage manufacturers, the significance is tied to where Coriolis meters are already used. ABB positions CoriolisMaster across a wide spread of food processing duties, including dairy, brewing, edible oils, meat processing, and dosing systems, while the hygienic FCH430 and FCH450 versions are designed for cleanable installations and carry EHEDG certification.
The underlying measurement role is already familiar. Coriolis meters provide direct measurement of mass flow, density, and temperature in the process stream, which makes them useful where concentration, batching, recipe control, or fill accuracy are important. In food production, that can place them on ingredient dosing skids, liquid product lines, brewery flows, and hygienic transfer points where both process accuracy and washdown suitability matter.
What ABB has changed is the communications layer around that instrument. The company said Ethernet-APL opens the way to faster, plant-wide access to process data and supports smarter control, troubleshooting, predictive maintenance, and long-term operational performance. On its CoriolisMaster platform, ABB also links the Ethernet-enabled architecture to remote diagnostic monitoring, flowmeter verification and configuration over Ethernet, and a built-in webserver that removes the need for additional configuration software.
That matters because digitalisation projects in food plants often stall at the point where useful field data becomes awkward to reach, slow to integrate, or difficult to maintain at scale. A meter may already be providing the right measurement, but commissioning, device access, and asset diagnostics can still be slowed by older communications structures. Ethernet-APL is intended to reduce that friction while keeping the instrument in a process-ready field architecture.
ABB’s hygienic CoriolisMaster FCH400 series supports standard Ethernet and Ethernet APL/SPE connectivity, with supported protocols including Profinet, Modbus TCP, and webserver access on Ethernet-APL. The company also highlights on-board verification and diagnostics, plus options such as direct concentration measurement and filling application control on the FCH450.
ABB describes the wider Ethernet-APL rollout as part of a network-centric architecture for plant-wide access to process data. With CoriolisMaster now included, food processors using ABB instruments have the same communications approach available on a mass flow platform that is already established in hygienic and process applications. Further details are available on ABB’s hygienic CoriolisMaster page and its Ethernet for the field overview.
