Industrial Automation problems look at the five major  in 2019

 

Industrial Automation

2019 Industrial Automation's biggest issue, smart factory CPS, MEC, such as new technologies, and Smart City interested in the platform proceeds standardization, such as OPC-UA protocol, TSN Standard.

2019 is an automated infrastructure, notably hot as interest in smart factories, particularly industrial infrastructure It was Dunn's year.

In June, the government announced the 'manufacturing renaissance vision and strategy to become one of the world's four largest manufacturing powerhouses. To achieve the vision of a manufacturing renaissance, the government has decided to supply 30,000 smart factories to SMEs by 2022, and to build 20 smart industrial complexes by 2030.

In addition, they have decided to build 2,000 AI factories by 2030 and promote AI-based industrial intelligence in earnest throughout the manufacturing industry, including the enactment of the 'Special Act on Manufacturing Industry Innovation'. In addition, by accumulating smart factory data to build a data center that supports AI-based services, it has established a policy to foster a smart manufacturing innovation supply industry such as core software, robots, sensors, and equipment used in smart factories.

Along with policy support, the industry is also focusing on developing and introducing new technologies such as CPS and MEC and is concentrating on establishing standards that enhance IoT connectivity such as OPC-UA protocol and TSN standard. Attempts to apply such infrastructure to cities beyond factories are increasing. In this trend, e4ds News has selected 5 articles that must be pointed out before the end of 2019.

The competitiveness of the domestic manufacturing industry has been lowered compared to that of developing countries due to a decrease in the working-age population due to a decrease in the fertility rate and an increase in labor costs. Government-level support policies are expanding to secure the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry in response to structural changes in society, and manufacturing companies are also accelerating the introduction of smart factories to secure their own productivity and increase efficiency.

The smart factory is a concept that includes factory automation that replaces human labor with machines, but that is not all. What is important is digitalization that accumulates sensors, cutting-edge processes, data, etc., network connection through IoT, and amortization that detects problems and makes decisions through analysis of collected data.

According to Capgemini Consulting, the economic effect created by the introduction of smart factories is expected to reach up to $1.5 trillion globally for five years from 2018 to 2022. Considering that the projected global GDP growth over the same period is about $18.4 trillion, $1.5 trillion accounts for about 8%. In Korea, the smart factory market is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 11.2% until 2020, and the industry predicts that it will reach $7.83 billion in 2020

Smart manufacturing is manufacturing using ICT, and the production system that implements it is a smart factory. The smart factory combines various ICTs at the production site to make the facilities and processes of individual factories intelligent and connect them with a network. Connected factories share all production information in real-time and use it to operate efficiently and autonomously.

The main purpose of the smart factory is efficient, flexible, autonomous, intelligent design and operation. The main concept applied for this purpose is CPS, a cyber-physical system that actively and autonomously performs cognition, judgment, and action. CPSs are computer-based components and systems that connect and utilize digital models of the cyber world.

CPS applies IIoT technology to connect and monitor all entities such as products, processes, facilities, and factories throughout the production process, and manages, refines and analyzes the collected manufacturing big data. And, through real-time synchronization, a cyber model that matches the on-site situation is established and intelligently utilized. Through this, it can be said that it is the core technology of the smart factory to achieve design and operation optimization autonomously and actively.

As the population is concentrated in cities, various social and environmental problems are occurring. A smart city is a city model that can solve various urban problems and improve the quality of life by applying new technologies such as ICT and big data to the city. In recent years, they are aiming for an urban platform that means a space where various innovative technologies can be combined with urban infrastructure to implement and converge.

In 2017, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport decided to replace the outdated ubiquitous word. And the Ubiquitous City Act was renamed the Smart City Act. The difference between a smart city and a U-city is that there is a base system called a smart city platform instead of a U-city control center.

Daegu Suseong Alpha City completed 13 services in five smart city fields in August 2019 and completed verification of stability and efficacy. In the future, Daegu City Corporation plans to make the existing city area smart in stages and to apply smart technology to the new development site from the planning stage.

With the commercialization of 5G network services as a starting point, rapid processing of large-capacity data is required. However, there is a limit to processing large amounts of data concentrated in the data center only with cloud computing. Thus, there is a movement to process data where it is generated.

MEC technology is a distributed cloud technology for providing customized services to consumers based on a fast and stable communication environment in a location that is physically close to a wireless base station. MEC, which reduces network expansion costs by minimizing congestion in the mobile core network of telecommunication service providers, can improve service quality. It provides service providers an opportunity to expand their business by creating new local services.

MEC technology has a lot of room to be used in various fields beyond smart factories, smart cities, autonomous vehicles, AI, and VR/AR. Therefore, the spirit of challenge to create a new business model is becoming more necessary, and institutional support is also needed to support it.

Manufacturing is that the backbone of Korean trade and economy. because the era of the fourth age approaches, individuals all over have raised their voices regarding locution that we must always increase the productivity of the Korean producing trade. The word “smart manufacturing plant” has appeared and has become commonplace since the word “smart” that wont to be connected all over is connected to the factory.

A smart manufacturing plant could be a lot of advanced thought than manufacturing plant automation. manufacturing plant automation that has been automatic and optimized for every unit method collects knowledge separately. On the opposite hand, sensible factories square measure connected with knowledge. Therefore, once knowledge is collected, it's attainable to link knowledge with one another.

If so, what technique ought to be wont to link knowledge generated from various stages? OPC-UA could be a supplier-independent communication protocol for industrial automation applications. This protocol is versatile and utterly freelance. Therefore, it's thought-about as a perfect communication protocol for the implementation of business four.0.