H92A0N9Q0H00 According to data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on January 19, China has built more than 340 industrial Internet platforms with certain influence, and the number of “5G+ Industrial Internet” projects exceeds 10,000. In 2023, the core industrial scale of the industrial Internet is expected to reach 1.35 trillion yuan.

So the question is, what is the industrial Internet? As we all know, nowadays, our life is inseparable from the Internet, watching videos, online classes, online shopping, etc. The Internet is almost as important as air and water. So what kind of interconnection is the industrial Internet? Let’s see ↓

H92A0N9Q0H00 A car in Hebei unveils 5G-A automotive flexible production line in one minute

In a car production workshop in Hebei province, with the support of 5G-A and wireless terminals, the robot arm in the factory responds quickly to achieve flexible production, and the entire vehicle factory can produce a car in one minute.

Reporter Huang Rui: Here is Baoding City, Hebei Province, there is the country’s first 5G-A automotive flexible production line, what is the black technology, with me to find out!

H92A0N9Q0H00 The first thing I felt when I came in was that there were no other technicians, it was all the machine itself running.

Huang Xiaoli, head of the 5G-A Industrial Internet Laboratory of Seiko Automation: We have deployed 9 5G-A base stations in the factory. The so-called 5G-A is the abbreviation of 5G Advanced, which is an intermediate iterative version in the evolution process of 5G to 6G. Its main feature is that its delay is very low, and the other is that its reliability is very high.

This is the control core of our whole wire body, and then its signal is sent through the base station we just talked about to our actuator, and the whole wire body is like the brain directing the robot arm to work. This system is like the human nervous system, and if we want our robotic arm to be as flexible as a finger, we need the communication network to be extremely responsive. At present, we have verified that the delay of 5G-A is 4 milliseconds, and the stability performance reaches 99.999%.

Reporter Huang Rui: What kind of concept is this 4 milliseconds?

H92A0N9Q0H00 Huang Xiaoli, head of the 5G-A Industrial Internet Laboratory of Seiko Automation: Take our human eyes for example, we blink once for about 0.2 seconds. At this time, our devices have communicated with each other 50 times. For our whole car factory, it can produce a car about a minute.

All the parts from the top to the production in 1 minute, equivalent to the production of 1 car in 1 minute. Behind the numbers is the efficient production brought about by the iterative innovation of technology.

Reporter Huang Rui: So let’s go close to these robotic arms. Are there any practical examples of this flexible production?

H92A0N9Q0H00 Huang Xiaoli, head of the 5G-A Industrial Internet Laboratory of Seiko Automation: Flexible production is for our car companies, car companies will meet a lot of new models every year, which will involve the transformation of our production line, for the traditional wired model, we need to re-lay its cables on the new equipment. This project will be more complicated, and after the introduction of 5G-A, we only need to attach a terminal to some new equipment, and it can be directly connected to the network, reducing the time and cost of transformation.

Reporter Huang Rui: I am now in the final assembly workshop of this car company, and I can see that the assembly line is very busy. In the future, 5G-A technology will be applied here on a large scale, enabling the flexible manufacturing of vehicles and parts, and looking forward to the further development and popularization of 5G-A technology, which can be applied to the core production of more industries, so that the future industry will become more intelligent and efficient.