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ADI Brings Innovative Technology Products to Accelerate Industry 4.0 Transformation

As the concept of Industry 4.0 is gradually being widely recognized, the era of more intelligent and efficient industrial automation is coming quietly, and digital transformation is penetrating into various fields of intelligent manufacturing.

Industry is an area that ADI (Analog Devices), a major semiconductor manufacturer, values and has advantages in. The financial report shows that ADI's overall revenue in fiscal year 2022 exceeds 12 billion US dollars, of which 50% of the revenue comes from the industrial field. ADI provides high-performance products and solutions for various fields of industrial intelligence transformation, and is having a positive impact on the process of Industry 4.0. In the future, ADI's key technologies and solutions for industrial automation will also be extended to the entire interconnected factory management system to help transform industrial intelligence.

In July 2023, at the media exchange meeting at the Shanghai Electronics Show in Munich, Cai Zhenyu, Director of Industrial Marketing of ADI China, introduced ADI's solution to meet the needs of intelligence for the industry with the title "ADI's innovative technology accelerates Industry 4.0 and realizes industrial transformation together". To meet the needs of the edge side of automation, provide a number of key technologies and solutions in industrial automation, and enable process control to support products of various transmission technologies.

New Trends in Industrial Automation

Mr. Cai Zhenyu shared the characteristics and trends of industrial automation that he has observed in the industry for many years.

First of all, digitization is one of the development directions of industrial automation. From the first industrial revolution to the third after automation, industrial applications have increasingly emphasized the importance of numbers, that is, data. Combining big data and artificial intelligence technology, the factory of the future will use digitization to mine more insights.

Process automation is the general trend, which closely follows the previous digital trend. With a large amount of data, with the help of artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, cloud computing and other technologies, an intelligent factory control system is established to enable the production line to perceive, judge and control independently. Improve the degree of automation and intelligence. This is about future smart edge or cloud smart applications.

Furthermore, the use of engineering intelligent robots to achieve agile manufacturing is also one of the development directions of industrial automation. At present, there are more and more application scenarios using robots, such as automobiles, intelligent manufacturing, warehouse transportation and equipment inspection fields of black light factories, the number of robots has increased significantly, and has evolved from the previous large-scale robots to the current collaborative robots and AGVs (automated guided vehicles) and other small robots.

At the same time, in the process of industrial automation, it is an industry consensus to create a sustainable future. There are two points here. One is that factories must first improve efficiency and accelerate intelligent iterations; the other is to promote changes in energy to ensure that energy acquisition and consumption are cleaner and more sustainable.

"Prescription" for industrial automation

The process of industrial automation is unstoppable. Before the digital transformation penetrates into various fields of intelligent manufacturing, ADI has used more than 50 years of industry experience and integrated the wisdom of more than 10,000 outstanding engineers to "prescribe good recipes and promote change" in key technologies and solutions. .

Schematic diagram of ADI's key technologies and solutions for industrial automation

ADI showcased the ADI OtoSense™ smart motor sensor solution at the Munich Shanghai Electronics Fair, a high-performance AI-based "predictive maintenance" platform designed for motors. Only 4 replaceable 1.5V AA lithium batteries are needed for power supply, and ADI high-performance sensors are integrated inside to capture various parameters of the motor, which can detect abnormal conditions of the motor at an early stage, and send them to the back-end cloud for processing through Wi-Fi. It enables customers to realize 7x24-hour motor condition monitoring on the mobile phone application or the PC-side network dashboard.

ADI has some new ideas and solutions on the industrial digital interface, the first one is IO-Link. ADI showcases industry-leading IO-Link master and slave solutions, including the MAX14819 series of dual-channel IO-Link master transceivers, the MAX14828 series of low-power IO-Link transceivers, surge-protected IO-Link device transceivers The MAX22513 series, etc., can provide a solid foundation for smart sensors to meet the needs of centralized control and optimized production in industrial automation processes.

IO-Link

There is also 10BASE-T1L, which is adapted from IEEE 802.3 developed based on industrial Ethernet. In order to connect sensors, valves, actuators and controls with the smart factory enterprise database, ADI demonstrated 10BASE-T1L with the standard IEEE 802.3cg?-2019 on site. T1L transmits power and data through twisted-pair wires. A single twisted-pair wire is well shielded, and it is easier to obtain materials. It will not be easily disturbed like ordinary network cables; and 10BASE-T1L bandwidth is particularly high. Compared with other connection technologies, from the perspective of single-pair cables, 10BASE-T1L has simpler than traditional Ethernet lines, 10Mbps communication speed, better than HART and fieldbus, and provides up to 1km for process automation. Features such as long-distance and support for threaded connections.

10BASE-T1L

Mr. Cai Zhenyu pointed out that ADI is also actively expanding the realization of IO-Link and other field instrument interface technologies and various Ethernet communication physical layer devices such as 10BASE-T1L to meet the demand for larger data transmission, which can efficiently transmit data on the edge of the factory to The central and cloud processing end, thereby promoting the digital transformation of the industry.

Rooted in Homeland Racing Industry 4.0

Talking about how ADI helps the development of China's industrial market, Mr. Cai Zhenyu said that a large part of the market for ADI's industrial products is in China. ADI provides all the bridges connecting the analog world and the digital world, providing many methods and products for this purpose, and the most fundamental thing is to provide the best service and technical support for Chinese industrial customers.

Opportunities for ADI in Industry 4.0

In order to understand and help Chinese customers more closely, ADI established the China Product Division in 2019, and established an independent China Division in 2020. "ADI is unique in that it relies on Beijing and Shanghai R&D centers, effectively implements the policy of being close to local needs, and serves localized customers at the speed of China.

At the same time, ADI is also relying on global technology research and development to bring advanced technologies and products to China to empower local companies. For example, in order to meet the needs of intelligence on the edge side, ADI is supporting a variety of transmission technologies to transfer the data collected on the edge side to the central processing side.

In addition to products and technologies, ADI has a group of professional local engineer teams with industry application experience in China. They start from the customer's pain point and solve the customer's system problem.

In the past two years, ADI has carried out close cooperation with Shijian Company, Junlong Technology and other companies. The two parties are not only buyers and sellers, but also jointly develop corresponding solutions according to market demand. For example, Shijian has cooperated with ADI for more than 30 years, and has developed a variety of local solutions based on ADI products many times in cooperation with ADI.

From products to services, from organizational structure to partners, ADI is accelerating the transformation of Industry 4.0 and embracing the rapid industrial development of tomorrow.