EMO 2019 Ausgabe 2

••• 7 ••• Innovationen Spindles since 1947 People. Passion. Precision. Fokus 2019 Spindelfamilie zum Abrichten Hochfrequenz-Spindeln MHF-80 Besuchen Sie uns in Halle 17 Stand B01 MDS-38 I MDS-58 I MDS-72 www.meyrat.com Smartening up production 5G technology can boost the potential of manufacturing In the research project “5G- SMART: 5G for smart manufac- turing”, funded by the European Union for the next two and a half years, the partners are building 5G networks in actual manufac- turing environments to demon- strate, test, and further develop the potential of 5G in production. The consortium is testing the in- terplay between 5G and state-of- the-art manufacturing equipment such as remote-controlled indus- trial robotics, wireless process monitoring in manufacturing, and mobile robotics. This is tak- ing place throughout Europe: in a telecommunications company in Sweden, in the machine hall at the Fraunhofer IPT in Aachen, and in a semiconductor factory in Reutlingen. The new mobile radio standard 5G is suitable for making manu- facturing processes more flexible and adaptive than before, improv- ing the quality of components, re- ducing costs and thus increasing productivity. The requirements to be met by 5G networks to ensure that they are tailored to the needs of the manufacturing industry are defined by the application part- ners together with mobile net- work suppliers. These include the integration of 5G in communica- tion standards such as time-sen- sitive networking (TSN) and cloud platforms, which enable a flexible machine control alongside low la- tency and high reliability. The Fraunhofer IPT is collaborat- ing with its project partners to develop new 5G-capable, indus- trially usable sensors and radio modules and is testing them in its own machines and equipment on the basis of specific production tasks. This should make it possi- ble to record process data with la- tencies of just a few milliseconds, evaluate them in real time, and thus optimise process monitoring throughout the entire industrial process chain. This enables the engineers to detect process devi- ations and machine states in good time and to react swiftly via con- trol commands to the machine in order to ensure that components are produced in the required qual- ity and production times. For this, the Fraunhofer IPT uses its exist- ing 5G test environment, which was installed by the Swedish mo- bile network supplier in the ma- chine hall of the institute. Integrated sensors, wirelessly connected to cloud-based analy- sis tools via 5G mobile radio con- nections, will help manufacturing companies of any size and sec- tor to collect valuable data and process it into information. In the course of their research pro- ject, the partners will investigate which concrete business mod- els 5G offers for manufacturing companies, suppliers, and mobile network operators in order to ac- celerate the introduction of 5G in production environments. The Fraunhofer IPT has joined forces with international part- ners to network industrial production wirelessly with 5G in or- der to test its potential for industry. Photo: Fraunhofer IPT Continued from page 1