TelecomTV TelecomTV
  • News
  • Videos
  • Channels
  • Events
  • Directory
  • Smart Studio
  • Surveys
  • Debates
  • Perspectives
  • DSP Leaders World Forum
  • DSP Leaders
  • Great Telco Debate
    • |
    • Follow
    • |
    • Subscribe
  • |
  • More
  • Webcasts
  • Surveys
  • Debates
  • Perspectives
  • Great Telco Debate
  • |
  • Follow TelecomTV
  • |
    • Subscribe
    • |
  • About
  • Privacy
  • Help
  • Contact
  • Follow TelecomTV
  • About
  • Privacy
  • Help
  • Contact
  • Sign In Register Subscribe
    • Subscribe
    • Sign In
    • Register
  • Search

5G

TelecomTV TRACKER

Sourced by TelecomTV's TRACKER platform
from Huawei Corporate News

5G

Beckhoff and Huawei Wireless X Labs jointly demonstrate next step to the 5G factory of tomorrow

Via Huawei Corporate News

Apr 24, 2018

[Hanover, Germany, April 23, 2018] Huawei and Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG today demonstrated a key 5G technology for enabling the factory of tomorrow: the wireless Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). During the successful proof-of-concept trial at Hannover Messe, the two companies showed communications between two cooperating PLCs using a 5G-orientated wireless industrial network prototype rather than using legacy cable. Due to the direct integration of cellular technology into the industrial PLCs, industrial automation will be realized in a more economically and environmentally sustainable manner compared to today’s wired line.

From Left to right: Hans Beckhoff, Owner and Managing Director, Beckhoff; Thomas Rettig, Senior Product Manager EtherCAT Technology, Beckhoff; Robin Ding, Deputy Director, Wireless X Labs, Huawei; Dr. Guido Beckmann, Senior Management Control System Architect, Beckhoff; Wanqiang Zhang, Senior Expert and 3GPP SA2 Head Delegate, Wireless X Labs, Huawei.

“Currently, wireless PLCs tend to connect using low-power, short-range technology, such as ZigBee. Using 5G instead will come with many advantages, such as increased range for remote control with higher performing connectivity and URLLC. Latency as low as 1 ms will improve operators’ reaction time to events and enable safer automation of operations and instant diagnosis of faults,” said Pierce Owen, Principal Analyst, ABI Research.

Over the past several decades, manufacturers have changed the way they do business through lean manufacturing, digitalization, and now, the Industrial IoT (IIoT). However, throughout this they have generally faced the same challenges of maximizing productivity and efficiency, adapting to customer orders and demands, and minimizing downtime. The need to minimize costs while keeping safety a paramount importance, is opening the way for new technologies that allow machines to communicate with each other and with factory-floor workers efficiently through wireless technology.

"The successful PoC in the Hannover Messe is a milestone for the joint innovation project between Beckhoff and Huawei, and verifies the cellular based real-time control for smart manufacturing,” according to Peter Zhou, Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei’s Wireless Solution. “Beckhoff evaluates advanced communication technologies for use in industrial automation. According to the joint test in the Beckhoff Lab, the 5G live demonstration highlighted some of the key capabilities offered by the new technology; achieving latency as low as 1ms with 500ns clock synchronization,” said Dr. Guido Beckmann, Senior Management Control System Architect, Beckhoff.

Ethernet communication on layer 2, using the EtherCAT Automation Protocol between two standard PLCs, allows remote control of a motion system, one of the high-performance applications in automation.

Beckhoff expects new applications with wireless communication through the targets set by the 5G community: examples include the horizontal coupling of machines in a factory or the vertical connection of machines to a global cloud. Monitoring a machine by attaching (additional) sensors can also be done wirelessly, for example, for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance with the help of low latencies. The first results of the cooperation with Huawei X Labs confirm these assumptions.

Related Topics
  • 5G,
  • AI, Analytics & Automation ,
  • Announcement,
  • Asia-Pacific,
  • Huawei,
  • Media & Entertainment,
  • News,
  • Tracker,
  • Zero Touch & Automation

More Like This

Security

Samsung 5G base stations achieve Common Criteria certification in North America

Jan 22, 2021

5G

What’s up with… Samsung, Vodafone, Sunrise, FCC

Jan 22, 2021

Open RAN

Open RAN projects in line for massive German government funds: Report

Jan 22, 2021

Access Evolution

Acting Chairwoman Rosenworcel on designation to lead FCC

Jan 21, 2021

5G

Samsung expands 5G technology leadership with fully virtualized commercial 5G RAN

Jan 21, 2021

This content extract was originally sourced from an external website (Huawei Corporate News) and is the copyright of the external website owner. TelecomTV is not responsible for the content of external websites. Legal Notices

Email Newsletters

Stay up to date with the latest industry developments: sign up to receive TelecomTV's top news and videos plus exclusive subscriber-only content direct to your inbox – including our daily news briefing and weekly wrap.

Subscribe

Top Picks

Highlights of our content from across TelecomTV today

1:4:29

Great Telco Debate: Live Debate – Day 2 (On-demand)

1:18:20

Great Telco Debate: Live Debate – Day 3 (On-demand)

43:08

Developing an ecosystem for vRAN

2:23

The TelecomTV Snapshot: The Great Telco Debate 2020 - CSP Highlights

  • TelecomTV
  • Decisive Media

TelecomTV is produced by the team at Decisive Media

Menu
  • News
  • Videos
  • Channels
  • Directory
  • Smart Studio
 
  • Surveys
  • Debates
  • Perspectives
  • Events
  • About Us
Our Brands
  • TelecomTV Tracker
  • TelecomTV Perspectives
  • DSP Leaders
  • DSP Leaders World Forum
  • The Great Telco Debate
Get In Touch
[email protected]
+44 (0) 207 448 1070

Request a Media Pack

Follow
  • © Decisive Media Limited 2021. All rights reserved. All brands and products are the trademarks of their respective holder(s).
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Legal Notices