IPEC, an electrical diagnostics company headquartered in Manchester, is set to be acquired by ABB, a Swiss company focused on operational resilience in critical industries. The transaction will close in the first quarter of 2026, enabling ABB to equip its customers with tools to prevent equipment failures.
ABB will integrate IPEC’s monitoring technology into its predictive maintenance service portfolio. Serving customers across healthcare, utilities, manufacturing and data centers, IPEC’s systems track critical electrical infrastructure 24/7 and leverage AI and analytics to predict potentially costly failures.
“At IPEC, we’ve spent decades refining how partial discharge data can be translated into meaningful diagnostics through advanced algorithms and, more recently, AI and machine learning,” Colin Smith, Managing Director of IPEC, said in a statement. “By joining ABB, we can both continue to develop our technology and bring our innovations to more industries and markets, turning complex data into predictive insight that anticipates potential failures and enables industries to make more strategic, intelligent decisions about their electrical assets.”
