Policy background
In September 2022, in order to further accelerate the in-depth expansion of new technologies, new scenarios and new models of "5G + Industrial Internet" to all fields and links of industrial production, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Guidelines for the Construction of 5G Fully Connected Factories", which clearly proposes to promote the construction of 5G fully connected factories by 10,000 enterprises and build 1,000 factories with distinctive characteristics and 100 benchmark factories to promote the in-depth development of 5G integrated applications.
Up to now, the number of "5G + Industrial Internet" projects in mainland China has exceeded 10,000, and with the continuous promotion of the large-scale application of "5G + Industrial Internet", 5G factories have been implemented one after another.
Keep innovating! Four-Faith vigorously promotes the in-depth expansion of industrial production
Deeply engaged in the field of Internet of Things for more than ten years, Four-Faith adheres to the development concept of continuous innovation, actively promotes the high-quality development of "5G + Industrial Internet" in various fields and links such as R&D and design, manufacturing, testing and monitoring, warehousing and logistics, operation management, etc., expands new technologies, new scenarios and new models to all fields and links of industrial production, and continues to cooperate with industry users to empower the implementation of 5G AIoT industry application projects.
Taking the typical representative of the industrial Internet as an example, the 5G fully connected factory is a hot "sweet spot" in the manufacturing enterprise, through the construction of production line-level, workshop-level, factory-level intelligent factories, transformation and upgrading of unmanned production lines, and the creation of smart production lines, smart warehouses and other scenario applications, to achieve enterprise cost reduction and efficiency increase.
Intelligent manufacturing upgrade! Four-Faith 5G fully connected factory to build a benchmark enterprise
The 5G fully connected factory is an advanced factory that makes full use of the integration of the new generation of information and communication technology represented by 5G, builds a new industrial Internet infrastructure, builds or renovates production sites at the production line level, workshop level, and factory level, and forms an advanced factory with extensive connection of production units, deep integration of information (IT) and operation (OT), full use of data elements, and efficient empowerment of innovative applications.
Based on emerging technologies such as 5G, AI, and the Internet of Things, and combined with the development concepts of automation, informatization, intelligence, and digitalization, Four-Faith actively explores the practice path of "intelligent transformation and digital transformation" in traditional industries, and strives to create a 5G fully connected factory solution, which realizes the mutual integration of 5G and the core business of factory production, and promotes the transformation of production and operation mode. Improve the intelligent level and management efficiency of the factory; At the same time, it supports enterprises to deploy edge computing nodes on demand at the production site, realizes intelligent interconnection with the platform, meets the needs of industrial real-time control, nearby services, on-demand scheduling, data security, etc., promotes the integrated deployment of 5G network and edge computing, and promotes cloud-network edge-end collaboration.
Full connection of personnel: realize intelligent management of factory access and access
In traditional factory management, manual monitoring and registration are prone to loopholes, and accurate information about people entering and exiting cannot be obtained in real time. By adopting advanced face recognition, fingerprint recognition, palm print recognition and other technologies, the face turnstile can accurately judge the identity of personnel and record the entry and exit time, so as to improve the safety of the factory.
In the Four-Faith fully connected factory solution, the entrance of the factory is equipped with a face turnstile device embedded in the Four-Faith 5G industrial router, and each visitor or staff member needs face recognition registration to enter the site, and the information of the face all-in-one machine is converted into a 5G signal through wired access to the 5G private network of the factory, and the face data in the server is compared in real time, so as to control the admission personnel and record the admission information in real time, so as to ensure the safety of sensitive areas and reduce potential safety hazards; In addition, Four-Faith can also provide users with an integrated face recognition turnstile with integrated 5G communication, which can control the working status of factory personnel in real time and ensure the safe operation of factory staff in multiple dimensions.
At the same time, Four-Faith 5G industrial cameras are deployed in all directions in the factory area, which can transmit images in real time through 5G wireless signals without wiring, which is convenient for different types of plant operators to carry out deployment and control anytime and anywhere, and realize no blind spot monitoring inside the factory; Not only that, the four-letter camera has a variety of built-in edge-side image AI algorithms, which can intelligently supervise the designated area, for example, once there is an intrusion in the dangerous area, it will immediately issue an alarm and stop the mechanical operation equipment in the dangerous area; It can also carry out real-time control of designated positions, and provide real-time warnings once personnel leave their posts without authorization, so as to ensure the safety of personnel and ensure the on-duty rate of each post in the factory.
Full connection of production: realize the refined production management of enterprises
In the fully connected production workshop of Four-Faith, the automated production equipment fully equipped with 5G data acquisition sensors is running efficiently and orderly. Taking the production side of the workshop as an example, all kinds of meters and sensor equipment are connected through the Four-Faith industrial data transmission terminal and industrial router, and the data such as pressure gauges, counters, measuring instruments, and attitude recognizers are collected in real time and transmitted to the corresponding business platform through the 5G network, and the management personnel can monitor the production data in real time through the system background.
Taking the PLC with the most extensive application range in the industrial scenario as a typical case, the traditional application method has always had the disadvantages of closed protocol, different manufacturers cannot communicate with each other, and can only complete wired connection, but with the help of Four-Faith 5G industrial intelligent gateway, it can quickly help the device to achieve data transparent transmission at the same time, but also to encapsulate scattered data in the protocol, and access the corresponding applications and SCADA and other systems through Modbus or MQTT and other formats; At the same time, with Four-Faith industrial-grade switches, it can connect with a variety of brands of PLCs and perform real-time analysis of different protocols, break through the barriers of interoperability and linkage, and wirelessly connect PLC equipment to the production system through its own 5G communication capabilities, which greatly simplifies the deployment and transformation costs of smart factories and makes the production and operation of enterprises more scientific and accurate.
In addition, Four-Faith's 5G fully connected production workshop also provides users with 5G industrial computers, industrial control screens and industrial control boards running Linux or Android systems to realize the functions of production data statistics, upload, query, and control on the edge side
Fully connected devices: Achieve multi-dimensional perception of industrial scenarios
In a traditional manufacturing plant, each piece of equipment is an island, and the production process is independent of each other, and all kinds of information cannot be interconnected.
Adhering to the tenet of 5G fully connected factories, Four-Faith combines 5G technology with production energy efficiency control, deploys IoT devices and sensors in the production equipment and production process, and uses 5G network to monitor and manage production data in real time to achieve efficient control of the production process.
For example, the original wired equipment is connected to the 5G private network through the Four-Faith 5G data transmission terminal, and the original equipment is intelligently transformed through the 5G gateway, which obtains the operation status of the equipment in real time, integrates and analyzes various data, and quickly improves the equipment maintenance and management capabilities.
For outdoor operation of factory equipment, Four-Faith has also launched two high-quality products, 5G industrial-grade CPE and 5G ODU, with a waterproof level of up to IP68, and the industrial-grade design ensures that the equipment can still operate stably in most harsh production environments. At the same time, Four-Faith provides 5G AIoT video box for the inside of the factory, without replacing the original traditional camera equipment, only need to connect the original camera equipment to the Four-Faith 5G AIoT video box to carry out image recognition on the edge side, through data + image + edge decision-making ability, to achieve multi-dimensional perception of industrial scenes, which can be widely used in visual AOI, intelligent sorting and other scenarios.
Scenario full connection: Realize efficient interconnection between all links in the factory area
Four-Faith makes full use of technologies such as the Internet of Things, 5G, AI, and big data to achieve seamless connection in transportation, warehousing, logistics tracking, measurement and settlement, and grasp the delivery data, receipt data, and measurement data in real time, so as to improve logistics efficiency and resource utilization
For example, in factory transportation and warehousing, Four-Faith 5G terminal series products have been widely used in various subdivision scenarios. In order to better adapt to the AGV trolley inside the factory, Four-Faith independently developed a small-sized 5G industrial router, which can be easily embedded in the trolley to achieve a low-latency and wide-connected 5G AGV trolley network, and at the same time open up the data interoperability between the production line station, the dispatching monitoring console and the AGV trolley in the work area, so as to improve the material transportation efficiency of the factory.
In warehousing applications, Four-Faith industrial-grade LoRa solution can be used to realize real-time data monitoring and danger warning functions to help managers find and solve problems in warehousing operations in a timely manner. At the same time, the solution can monitor the environmental parameters (such as temperature and humidity), equipment operation status and cargo flow of the warehouse, and issue an early warning notice when abnormal conditions occur, helping operation and maintenance personnel take timely measures to avoid losses and delays, and finally connect the sensor information of the plant area to the LPWAN and the 5G private network through the 5G LoRa gateway, so as to realize the centralized collection and management of various data in the factory area, and help enterprises realize the comprehensive monitoring and fine management of warehouse operations.
Fully connected platform: Realize one-stop management and connection of the factory
In the one-stop solution of Four-Faith 5G fully connected factory, whether it is the entry of personnel/materials, the whole production process of products, the supervision and control of production equipment, or the identification of ex-factory transport license plate models, all paths of ex-factory logistics and transportation vehicles can be controlled at any time through Four-Faith 5G GPS positioning gateway, and then all-round coverage of 5G fully connected factories can be achieved through Four-Faith 5G series products and application solutions.
In order to better realize the comprehensive management and control of multiple devices, Four-Faith Cloud Platform was born to launch a one-stop equipment management platform specially for industrial equipment, which can carry out unified management of thousands of Four-Faith 5G devices, whether it is remote configuration or batch upgrade, it can be operated in the operation and maintenance management center, solving the pain points and difficulties of users for the unified management of large quantities of equipment.
In addition, for the collection and display of various sensor data, Four-Faith has also launched a corresponding business platform - Four-Faith Sensor Cloud Platform, which has a variety of built-in physical models, cloud configurations, and large data screens, which are suitable for business display and data management calls of various smart factories.
With the massive deployment of 5G private networks, the management requirements of communication equipment rooms have also been greatly improved, and Four-Faith also has corresponding 5G product solutions on the computer room side, such as 5G edge intelligent operation and maintenance gateways and integrated monitoring and distribution units to help various computer rooms achieve intelligent management and control; In addition, Four-Faith has also entered the photovoltaic field, and in the fully connected factory solution, customers can realize applications such as intelligent photovoltaic panel steering control and intelligent photovoltaic panel monitoring through Four-Faith terminal gateway.