A set of comics, 5 scenes, Little "A" will help you accelerate towards Industry 4.0
Facing the global industrial 4.0 technological revolution race, I believe many people have some kind of practical confusion:
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Where should we start the technological transformation?
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Does the 4.0 era mean abandoning all existing technological traditions?
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Can the existing system be upgraded, or must a completely new system be installed?
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Is now the right time to invest?
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Will today’s investments really pay off in the future?
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Don’t be at a loss. ADI’s advice to you is to find one or more professional partners and establish a partnership dedicated to achieving common goals and mutual success. This partner needs to have rich and in-depth expertise in hardware, software, security, and system-level design. It must also understand your commercial/business challenges and technical challenges and help you adopt a system-level approach to solve all challenges.
Speaking of this, let’s follow the accelerator Little “A” to see how ADI has made Industry 4.0 just around the corner by accumulating experience in the field of high-performance analog technology!
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ADI Accelerator Small "A"
Flexible manufacturing is a topic that cannot be avoided in Industry 4.0. When new market demand trends emerge, if you can only spend several days to reconfigure the production process and upgrade the equipment step by step, the market opportunity will inevitably be fleeting. In this regard, the small "A" can play a role: make each I/O interface (including analog and digital input and output) software configurable, significantly reducing the dependence of the entire control loop on expensive custom I/O hardware and complex wiring. Today's PLC (programmable controller) and DCS (distributed control system) provide an excellent opportunity for software configurable I/O, because they usually use large control cabinets with multiple I/O modules and specify wiring types for each channel type. The software configurable I/O function allows channels to be configured at any time, which is actually equivalent to supporting customization at the time of installation. In this way, the plug-and-play capability of the device is improved, and even from field devices to control, factories, enterprises and clouds, more seamless and complete analysis and more flexible automation control can be achieved, and small batch production will be as efficient from now on!
The Industrial Internet of Things is the fundamental support for realizing intelligent manufacturing. Only networked machines and equipment can realize intelligent analysis and intelligent control. However, there are many industrial network standards and complex models. It is often difficult to realize networking between old and new equipment or equipment with different connection standards. The secret weapon of Little "A" is the real-time Ethernet switching chip fido5000 series: one chip can support different industrial network standards, realize the connection between devices of different architectures, and support the next generation of industrial Internet standards.
Production losses due to downtime are a pitfall that companies want to avoid. Ensuring that equipment is flexible and efficient is important, but if the health status of the machine cannot be effectively monitored, all investment will be wasted. In response to this situation, Xiao "A" brings a low-latency, condition-based monitoring solution (CbM) to "check the pulse" of enterprise production, combining precise sensor perception with embedded algorithms, and performing real-time monitoring with minimal additional processing, using extremely reliable real-time data and communications to prevent production interruptions, improve safety, increase throughput, and reduce costs.
The openness advocated by Industry 4.0 is unprecedented, and this also puts higher demands on security. To this end, Xiao "A" introduces IEC 61508 to everyone. It is a basic functional safety standard issued by the International Electrotechnical Commission and can be applied to various industrial fields. ADI strictly applies this standard in the new product development process to ensure that the additional security plans, security analysis, verification and confirmation required by IEC61508 are implemented. At the same time, Xiao "A" also has other security tips: such as new hardware-based identity solutions that can achieve network edge security within the factory control loop; all traffic in the SmartMesh network is protected by end-to-end encryption, message integrity checks and device authentication, and its network manager includes applications that support secure network joining, key establishment and key exchange, etc.
Little "A" can finally introduce his robot friend! In fact, the efficiency and flexibility achieved through Industry 4.0 are largely inseparable from the contribution of robots, collaborative robots and other advanced machines. Robots are integrating more sensor technologies and communication technologies: for example, detecting the shaking of the arm itself under heavy loads; ensuring the safety of collaborative robots working closely with workers; uploading robot parameters to the cloud, etc. These new opportunities also make Little "A" useful - many previously difficult to achieve fine motion control of robot joints can be easily achieved through small-volume analog-to-digital converters (such as the 16-bit SAR ADC system AD7380), even the most complex joint movements can be easily achieved.
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