NI partners with Huawei, others on new testbed to advance the IIoT
NI联合华为等在新测试平台上推进工业物联网

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年汉诺威工业博览会上，超过20个国际组织和行业供应商联合发布了涵盖六大工业互联网场景的“时间敏感网络（TSN）+ OPC统一架构（OPC UA）”智能制造测试平台。参与测试平台的相关方包括工业互联网产业联盟（AII）、Avnu联盟、边缘计算联盟（ECC）、Fraunhofer FOKUS、华为、施耐德电气、和利时、美国国家仪器公司（NI）、贝加莱自动化、TTTech和思博伦通信。华为的TSN交换机为测试平台提供低延迟的工业控制网络。在此次活动中，通过模拟一系列现实生活中的智能制造条件来展示其测试平台，以展示其技术亮点--TSN + OPC UA，这是诸如预测性维护、数据分析、机器学习以及人工智能等新技术发展的主要推动力。

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.

智能制造需要灵活的生产系统和跨平台、跨行业应用，不过这需要大规模的实时工业通信网络，这就给运营商带来了重大挑战。

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年汉诺威工业博览会上推出的测试平台符合OPC UA标准，确保来自不同供应商的多个设备可以在单个系统中相互协作。TSN测试平台集成了软件定义网络（SDN）技术，可根据精确的时序优先处理流量，并通过单一网络传输实时和非实时数据。这为整个网络中的机器、人和物提供了连接性和互操作性，为工业互联网的最后一英里之间架起桥梁。

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.

华为和其他几个先驱已经为六种工业互联网场景建立了智能制造测试平台：预测性维护TSN（华为和AII），电机同步（华为和NI），赛车游戏（华为和和利时），绘图仪运动控制（华为和Linmot），LED同步（华为和施耐德电气）以及在TSN上的OPC UA（华为和贝加莱自动化）。该测试平台验证了复杂环境中TSN网络的高确定性和低延迟特性，并确保了在工业场景中的严格同步运动控制。思博伦通信的测试设备被用于生成TSN和非TSN流量，以证明新的工业网络架构和服务带来的好处。

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.

华为及其全球合作伙伴合作，为客户开发更多数字化工业解决方案，使工业4.0创建新的运营流程和基础架构平台成为可能。