The Path to Industry 4.0
Communications infrastructure is the backbone of the connected factory and presents many key opportunities on the path to Industry 4.0. As networks pivot from legacy fieldbus to Industrial Ethernet, multiple challenges emerge within the design and implementation phases. Developing
future-proofed, robust, and scalable Industrial Ethernet solutions that can support multiple protocols is a time consuming and resource intensive task. It necessitates a pivot in skillsets and knowledge base to architect systems that ensure data integration, synchronization, and system interoperability.
There is, however, a trusted partner who can help you navigate this task, assist in the design and development of seamless, robust Ethernet solutions: Analog Devices.
ADI Chronous™ Products
ADI Chronous™ is a complete portfolio of Industrial Ethernet technologies, solutions, software, and security capabilities designed to connect the real world to factory networks and beyond to the cloud. The ADI Chronous™ portfolio offers multiple port count, low power consumption, and flexible bandwidth. Being multiprotocol, these solutions are compatible with all existing protocols while also providing the ability to future-proof for TSN features.
Benefits
- Compatible with most existing Industrial protocols
- Future proofed for TSN
- Low latency and power consumption
- Scalable bandwidth
- Security at each node point
- Longevity of supply
Delivering Trusted Data in Key Application Areas
ADI’s understanding of network architectures coupled with its application knowledge of how data is
collected, processed, and used throughout an operation all serve to inform the security and robust
features present in the ADI Chronous offerings.
- Process and Factory Automation: Deterministic networks and gigabit performance is a requirement of the future factory or process automation system
- Connection Motion and Robotics: DI’s Chronous enables synchronization across the boundary of the network into the application, from sub-1 μs right down to the PWM outputs within the servo motor control
- Building Automation: Addressing the multiple bandwidth requirements of existing and future intelligent buildings, ADI Chronous provides reliable, secure, and trusted digital communications at all levels of the network
