NI partners with Huawei, others on new testbed to advance the IIoT
NI聯(lián)合華為等在新測(cè)試平臺(tái)上推進(jìn)工業(yè)物聯(lián)網(wǎng)

April 27, 2018 -- At HANNOVER MESSE 2018, more than 20 international organizations and industry vendors jointly announced the "Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) + OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA)" smart manufacturing testbed covering six major industrial Internet scenarios. 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 Communications. Huawei's TSN switches provide and low-latency industrial control network for the testbed. At the event, the testbed was demonstrated by simulating a range of real-life smart manufacturing conditions to show its 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).

2018年4月27日——在2018年漢諾威工業(yè)博覽會(huì)上，超過20個(gè)國際組織和行業(yè)供應(yīng)商聯(lián)合發(fā)布了涵蓋六大工業(yè)互聯(lián)網(wǎng)場景的“時(shí)間敏感網(wǎng)絡(luò)（TSN）+ OPC統(tǒng)一架構(gòu)（OPC UA）”智能制造測(cè)試平臺(tái)。參與測(cè)試平臺(tái)的相關(guān)方包括工業(yè)互聯(lián)網(wǎng)產(chǎn)業(yè)聯(lián)盟（AII）、Avnu聯(lián)盟、邊緣計(jì)算聯(lián)盟（ECC）、Fraunhofer FOKUS、華為、施耐德電氣、和利時(shí)、美國國家儀器公司（NI）、貝加萊自動(dòng)化、TTTech和思博倫通信。華為的TSN交換機(jī)為測(cè)試平臺(tái)提供低延遲的工業(yè)控制網(wǎng)絡(luò)。在此次活動(dòng)中，通過模擬一系列現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中的智能制造條件來展示其測(cè)試平臺(tái)，以展示其技術(shù)亮點(diǎn)--TSN + OPC UA，這是諸如預(yù)測(cè)性維護(hù)、數(shù)據(jù)分析、機(jī)器學(xué)習(xí)以及人工智能等新技術(shù)發(fā)展的主要推動(dòng)力。

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.

智能制造需要靈活的生產(chǎn)系統(tǒng)和跨平臺(tái)、跨行業(yè)應(yīng)用，不過這需要大規(guī)模的實(shí)時(shí)工業(yè)通信網(wǎng)絡(luò)，這就給運(yùn)營商帶來了重大挑戰(zhàn)。

Launched at the HANNOVER MESSE 2018, the testbed complies with the OPC UA standards, ensuring that multiple devices from different vendors can 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.

在2018年漢諾威工業(yè)博覽會(huì)上推出的測(cè)試平臺(tái)符合OPC UA標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，確保來自不同供應(yīng)商的多個(gè)設(shè)備可以在單個(gè)系統(tǒng)中相互協(xié)作。TSN測(cè)試平臺(tái)集成了軟件定義網(wǎng)絡(luò)（SDN）技術(shù)，可根據(jù)精確的時(shí)序優(yōu)先處理流量，并通過單一網(wǎng)絡(luò)傳輸實(shí)時(shí)和非實(shí)時(shí)數(shù)據(jù)。這為整個(gè)網(wǎng)絡(luò)中的機(jī)器、人和物提供了連接性和互操作性，為工業(yè)互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的最后一英里之間架起橋梁。

Huawei and several other pioneers have established the smart manufacturing testbed for 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. Spirent Communication's test devices were used to generate TSN and non-TSN traffic, to prove the benefits brought by new industrial network architecture and services.

華為和其他幾個(gè)先驅(qū)已經(jīng)為六種工業(yè)互聯(lián)網(wǎng)場景建立了智能制造測(cè)試平臺(tái)：預(yù)測(cè)性維護(hù)TSN（華為和AII），電機(jī)同步（華為和NI），賽車游戲（華為和和利時(shí)），繪圖儀運(yùn)動(dòng)控制（華為和Linmot），LED同步（華為和施耐德電氣）以及在TSN上的OPC UA（華為和貝加萊自動(dòng)化）。該測(cè)試平臺(tái)驗(yàn)證了復(fù)雜環(huán)境中TSN網(wǎng)絡(luò)的高確定性和低延遲特性，并確保了在工業(yè)場景中的嚴(yán)格同步運(yùn)動(dòng)控制。思博倫通信的測(cè)試設(shè)備被用于生成TSN和非TSN流量，以證明新的工業(yè)網(wǎng)絡(luò)架構(gòu)和服務(wù)帶來的好處。

Huawei works with global partners to develop more digital industrial solutions for customers, making it possible to build new operational processes and infrastructural platforms for Industry 4.0.

華為及其全球合作伙伴合作，為客戶開發(fā)更多數(shù)字化工業(yè)解決方案，使工業(yè)4.0創(chuàng)建新的運(yùn)營流程和基礎(chǔ)架構(gòu)平臺(tái)成為可能。