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INDUSTRy 4.0 / SmART FACTORIES
IndUstry 4.0 With Industry 4.0 and the digital transformation, a flood of data is available in production. But as of today, 90 per cent of this data is not used. It is imperative that we understand and co-
determine the entire scope of different topics in the field of industrial communication. Communication from sensor to cloud is possible today already, with IO-Link as a widely spread sensor level protocol and PROFINET as the Industrial Ethernet backbone. Using OPC UA as interface to IT applications, many standards are ready to be used. When the Industry 4.0 project was started
with lots of dedicated companies, its many different dimensions quickly became clear. On the one hand, PI must tackle the entire spectrum of industrial communication technology, but timely implementation can only occur in agile measures based on existing technology. Due to the sheer size of this spectrum, this can only be done in close cooperation with other organizations. Lots of progress has already been made and
more highlights of the usage of PROFINET in Industry 4.0 applications will follow. PI has set itself the target to make Industry 4.0 reality and easily usable in practice.
Is PrOFInEt OvEr tsn nEcEssary? As factories evolve, many additional components are being integrated in a plant, such as virus scanners. Such actions, such as a virus scan, stress the network because standard Ethernet (TCP/IP) can contain very large data packets and is not real-time capable. If larger TCP/IP data packets are present, they can block communication paths and it is not possible for real- time data packets to overtake them. This not only delays the delivery of the data packets in each switch, but also causes a real jam in the devices.
sImPlIFyIng cOmPlExIty TSN offers advantages such as future-proof IEEE Ethernet technology with higher bandwidth, determinism, flexible network configuration, and a wide variety of chips. However, the declared goal of users is to continue to use proven PROFINET applications and existing architectures. For this reason, PI is not only working on integrating TSN, but also on making this new migration path as simple as possible for the user while remaining flexible for future I4.0 use cases.
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