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More than 20 international organizations and leading industry vendors jointly announced the "Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) + OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA)" smart manufacturing testbed covering six major industrial Internet scenarios for edge computing. The stakeholders engaged in the testbed include the Alliance of Industrial Internet (AII), Avnu Alliance, Edge Computing Consortium (ECC), Fraunhofer FOKUS, Huawei, Schneider Electric, HollySys, National Instruments Corporation (NI), B&R Automation, TTTech, and Spirent Communica-tions.
The smart manufacturing testbed was demonstrated at Hannover Messe 2018 by simulating a range of real-life smart manufacturing conditions to show its key technical highlight -- TSN + OPC UA, which is the major driving force for new technologies, such as predictive maintenance, data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI). TSN + OPC UA helps industrial companies enhance efficiency by reducing downtime, improving overall device efficiency, and reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).
Smart manufacturing requires flexible production systems and cross-platform, cross-industry applications, however this demands large-scale real-time industrial communications networks which present significant challenges for operators.
The smart manufacturing testbed complies with the OPC UA standards, ensuring that multiple devices from different vendors can easily collaborate with each other in a single system. The TSN testbed integrates Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technology to prioritize traffic based on precise timing and transmit both real-time and non-real-time data over a single network. This enables connectivity and interoperability for machines, people, and things across the entire network and bridges the last mile for the industrial Internet.
Smart Manufacturing Testbed for Other Industrial Internet Scenarios
The smart manufacturing testbed covers six industrial Internet scenarios:
• TSN for Predictive Maintenance (by Huawei and AII),
• Motor Synchronization (by Huawei and NI),
• Racing-Car Game (by Huawei and HollySys),
• Plotter Motion Control (by Huawei and Linmot),
• LED synchronization (by Huawei and Schneider Electric), and
• OPC UA over TSN (by Huawei and B&R Automation).
This testbed verifies the highly deterministic and low-latency nature of the TSN network in complex environments, and ensures strict synchronous motion control in industrial scenarios.