运动标准驱动IIoT

Among the most important standards for industrial motion control are open networking standards for interoperable communications.

In a more connected world, machine builders and end users are finding that the digital part of “intelligent” machines is increasingly more complex and challenging to handle. Industry trends focus on topics like modular connected machines, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), plug-and-produce, digital twins, digital factory, and others.The development of motion control applications, as well as the industry itself, is changing rapidly.
To succeed in the quickly evolving future of machine building, and meet the growing expectations of manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) face challenges of standardized communication and interoperability. End users are buying machines from different machine manufacturers and dealing with different controls platforms and field buses, and related industrial networking issues. Since machines need to be connected to build a machine line, they also should be connected to the cloud.
When a company buys a machine from OEM A and another machine from OEM B, the expectation is that the machines should easily talk to each other—without requiring a lot of engineering to make communication possible. For the end users and machine builders, smart industrial networking leads to an efficient and speedy implementation and facilitates data-based operational optimizations.
Motion standards, protocols
The following organizations are making the most impact when enabling IIoT advancements. The latest developments in open application programming interfaces (APIs) are worthy of attention, including the following standards and protocols that
advance interoperability.
OPC UA and TSN
Any machine builder or OEM implementing a cloud-based solution will quickly run across the Open Platform Communications (OPC) Foundation an