Series-level lifecycle status in ABB's own lifecycle vocabulary — Active / Classic / Limited / Obsolete — with phase-transition dates exactly as published in ABB life cycle statements, sales ramp-down announcements and modernization documents, for legacy ABB low-voltage AC and DC drives: the ACS600 generation, native ACS800 single drives, modules and specialty variants, ACS850, the ACS550 platform (ACS550 / ACH550 / ACQ550), the small machinery and micro drives (ACS310, ACS355, ACS320, ACS150, ACS55), and the DCS800 DC drives — plus Active status records for the current ACS580, ACS880 and DCS880 generations. ABB's phase definitions, per its legacy-drives pages: Active = product in active sales and manufacturing, full life-cycle services; Classic = serial production has ceased, full life-cycle services and support remain; Limited = product no longer available, limited life-cycle support, spare parts limited to available stock; Obsolete = product no longer available, replacement and end-of-life services only. The flagship migration path in the file is ABB's published modernization of ACS800 (and ACS600) to the ACS880 generation.
The time-critical records in this file are the ACS310 and ACS355 machinery drives: both series are in the Limited phase now, and ABB's published plan transfers them to Obsolete on 31 December 2026 — sales are already ramping down in country waves during Limited, and some regional distribution centres (the Singapore RDC) have no Limited-phase availability at all, so spare-parts securing or migration planning for installed ACS310/ACS355 bases is time-critical. Immediately behind it, the DCS800 DC drives transfer from Classic to Limited on 1 January 2027 — until then, complete new DCS800 modules remain purchasable as replacements and the full range of life cycle services applies. Two Obsolete clusters are already in force: the entire ACS600 generation plus the ACS550 / ACH550 / ACQ550 platform transferred to Obsolete on 1 January 2025, and ACS55 / ACS150 / ACS320 followed on 1 January 2026.
Honesty notes: ACS580, ACS880 and DCS880 are still Active — ABB publishes all three as Active-phase products in its own modernization material; ACS580 in particular is often wrongly assumed end-of-life because its predecessor ACS550 went Obsolete on 1.1.2025, but ABB publishes the opposite. Watch the rating-plate identification trap: drives built 2002–2004 with "ACS800" rating plates but built on ACS600 multidrive hardware follow the ACS600 multidrive lifecycle and have been Obsolete since 1.1.2025 — they are not Classic like native ACS800, and must not be planned against the native ACS800 statements. And long runways are not EOL: the ACS800-11 / -31 regenerative and low-harmonic drives stay Classic until end of 2029 and ABB's statement for them says "No actions are required" during Classic; the ACS800-67 wind converters stay Classic until end of 2034.
Verification standard: official ABB sources first (life cycle statements, life cycle announcements and sales ramp-down announcements in the ABB Library, ABB modernization brochures and leaflets, ABB news, and ABB's official legacy-drives pages). Lifecycle dates are reproduced exactly as published — ABB publishes them in d.m.yyyy form, e.g. 1.1.2025 — and left blank where no source opened published one; no dates, phases, or successors are inferred. Where an ABB statement publishes a plan ("planned to keep in Classic until…"), the record names it as a plan — and the two records resting on statements whose published plan horizons have already passed without a newer revision located (ACS800 R2–R6 single drives, plan horizon end-2024; ACS850-04, plan after 2021) are flagged in-file for re-verification rather than silently converted into a current phase. Exactly one of the 22 records is fully [distributor-sourced] (the ACS880-104 variant note); distributor material is tagged wherever it is used.
| Product Family | Catalog/Series | Lifecycle Status | Discontinuation or milestone date | Recommended Replacement / Migration Path |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACS600 Single Drives | ACS607 / ACS627 (frames R11i–R12i, 630–3000 kW) and ACS617 / ACS677 (frames R8i–R12i, 200–2800 kW) | Obsolete — in Limited phase since 1.1.2022, transferred to Obsolete phase 1.1.2025 (ABB life cycle announcement 4FPS10000408135 rev E, 1.7.2024) | Limited since 1.1.2022; Obsolete 1.1.2025 | Retrofit or replace with a new product family (per ABB announcement); ABB modernization material names ACS880 as the modernization target for the ACS600 generation |
| ACS800 Single Drives & Drive Modules | ACS800-01 / -U1 / -04 / -U4 / -07 / -U7, frames R2–R6, 0.55–200 kW | Classic — in Classic phase since 1.7.2017 (ABB life cycle statement, rev C). The statement's published plan was to keep the types in Classic until end of 2024; that plan date has passed and no newer ABB phase statement for these types was located in this pass — see Coverage gaps | Classic since 1.7.2017; statement plan: Classic until end of 2024 | ACS880 — ABB's published modernization path: ACS800 frames R2–R8 modernize to ACS880 frames R1–R11 (ABB modernization brochure 9AKK108472A5816; upgrade kits available from September 2021 per ABB news) |
| ACS550 general-purpose drives | ACS550-01 / -02; ACS550-Ux / -CC / -Px; ACx550 ETO types | Obsolete — in Limited phase since 1.1.2024 (statement 4FPS10001174825 rev D, 1.1.2024); transferred to Obsolete phase 1.1.2025 (statement rev F, 1.1.2025) | Limited since 1.1.2024; Obsolete since 1.1.2025. Sales ramp-down (ABB announcement rev D): last order / last delivery — Europe, Asia, MEA, C&S America 30.6.2019 / 31.12.2019; China & India 31.12.2020 / 30.6.2021; USA & Canada types 30.6.2021 / 30.9.2021. Classic phase from 1.1.2021 (USA/Canada 1.7.2021) | ACS580 — ABB states "ACS580, ACH580 and ACQ580 has replaced ACS550, ACH550 and ACQ550" |
| ACS310 & ACS355 machinery drives | ACS310 and ACS355 (one joint ABB life cycle statement, 4FPS10002127509 rev B, 1.7.2024) | Limited — in Limited phase since 1.7.2024. Near-term phase change: ABB plans to keep both series in Limited until 31.12.2026, then transfer to Obsolete | Limited since 1.7.2024; planned Limited until 31.12.2026, then Obsolete | No successor named in the statement opened |
| DCS800 DC drives | DCS800-S0x modules, DCS800-A0x cabinet drives, DCS800-Exx panel solutions, DCS800-R0x rebuild/upgrade kits (all variants) | Classic — in Classic phase (ABB sales ramp-down announcement). Not end-of-life: ABB plans to transfer DCS800 to the Limited phase 1.1.2027 | Sales ramp-down: last order 31.12.2022, last delivery 31.3.2023; planned transfer to Limited 1.1.2027 | DCS880 — the latest-generation replacement named by ABB |
Sample rows are copied verbatim from the paid dataset file, including its blank dates where ABB published none.
Full file: all 22 series-level records (3 ACS600, 4 ACS800, 1 ACS850, 3 ACS550-platform incl. ACH550/ACQ550, 4 small machinery/micro drives, 2 DC drives, 3 current-generation Active status records, 1 ACS880 variant record, 1 grouped legacy status note), each with migration conditions and source URLs, plus per-family migration notes and a coverage-gaps section listing families checked and deliberately excluded for lack of a verifiable record. Clean Markdown, compiled 2026-10-21.
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Facts compiled from public OEM lifecycle sources; not affiliated with or endorsed by ABB. Trademarks belong to their owners. This is a migration-planning reference, not engineering sign-off. ABB issues lifecycle statements per product type, and the family-level records here must not be read as per-type dates beyond the types named in each record — the 2002–2004 "ACS800"-plated drives built on ACS600 hardware in the full file are the standing warning. Verify production-critical selections against ABB's current lifecycle documents before acting, and re-verify the time-sensitive statuses (ACS310/ACS355 Obsolete transfer 31.12.2026; DCS800 Limited transfer 1.1.2027) and the two records resting on statements whose published plan horizons have passed (ACS800 R2–R6, ACS850-04) at planning time.