- Schneider Electric Le Vaudreuil factory – a pilot for digital
transformation – is the first factory in France to trial industrial
5G
- Orange has deployed an indoor, private, virtualized network on
experimental frequencies
- 5G project will facilitate the convergence of Information and
Operational Technologies (IT/OT) for comprehensive co-innovation
approach
Schneider Electric, a leader in digital transformation, energy
management and automation, and Orange, a global telecoms operator
and leader in digital services, announced the first deployment of
indoor 5G in the industrial sector in France on experimental
frequencies as part of a trial. Operating since March, this first
co-innovation project in the Le Vaudreuil factory aims to use 5G in
a modern industrial environment to build reliable, scalable and
sustainable connectivity solutions for future industrial needs.
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Thanks to its low latency, very high throughput and – over time
– network slicing, 5G will be a competitive lever for companies, as
it will bring noticeable improvement in industrial processes and
working methods, especially through mixed reality (augmented and
virtual). In the Industrial sector, 5G will help synchronize in
real time large amounts of data, which are key to boost
performance, facilitate remote working, and ensure optimal
production efficiencies.
The indoor 5G-enabled trials will support two use cases:
augmented reality applied to maintenance technician activities and
the implementation of a telepresence robot for remote visits. Nokia
radio AirScale and core equipment has been selected and the
experimental frequencies have been allocated by the French
regulatory authority. Five indoor 5G antennas were installed inside
a part of the factory, covering close to 2,000 m2 of production
space with download speeds beyond 1 Gbps, on an experimental
network architecture allowing local data processing with edge
computing technologies. Building on its co-innovation ecosystem,
Orange has proposed to use the recently launched Dell technologies
5G-ready Latitude 9510 business PC to deliver these use cases. This
allows Schneider Electric to benefit from the laptop’s embedded
computing power, wherever the user is located.
Two 5G Use Cases for Industry In the first use case
tested, the teams connected tablets to 5G using the Schneider
Electric augmented reality application called EcoStruxure Augmented
Operator Advisor (AOA). This custom application improves
operational efficiency with augmented reality, enabling operators
to superimpose real-time data and virtual objects onto a cabinet,
machine or entire plant. The objective with 5G is to test future
functionality with minimum latency and maximum throughput.
Thanks to its scalability, 5G can support growing bandwidth
needs and responsiveness. Operators using the AOA application via
their 5G-connected tablet film a machine and access information
about its status and future maintenance that are hosted in the
cloud in real time. This helps reduce machine downtime and
streamline maintenance operations, while minimizing human error.
For example, temperature data from a coil winding machine can
signal when it is overheating, and a part needs to be replaced.
Moreover, production data used by AOA are collected and
processed in Schneider Electric’s micro data center solutions (such
as Smart Bunker or Micro Data Center 6U Wall Mount), which locally
power, cool and protect IT infrastructure. These “all in one”
envelopes bring together power, cooling, and urbanization of
servers in a secure place. They can support the roll-out of 5G on a
new site with its new use cases (augmented reality, AI, IoT).
The second use case tested by Schneider Electric and Orange
concerns driving an AXYN mobile telepresence robot using 5G to
eventually arrange remote visits to the Le Vaudreuil site. The
performance of 5G makes it possible for very high-quality video to
be used with minimal lag time in the virtual interactions between
the visitor and the Schneider Electric guide that accompanies the
robot throughout the Le Vaudreuil site. A remote visit with
high-quality video and audio will help minimize travel time and
costs and, most importantly, reduce the carbon footprint while
providing the end user with a unique experience.
The trial of these first use cases will help capitalize on
Orange's and Schneider Electric's ability to jointly build and
operate a state-of-the-art indoor 5G network in an industrial
setting. More experiments will be developed to test technologies
with strong potential, such as artificial intelligence, and thanks
to future hardware and software updates to the network
equipment.
“5G is a breakthrough technology for businesses that will bring
numerous industrial applications, such as predictive maintenance,
real-time video processing, augmented reality and telepresence.
These use cases are powerful and competitive levers that will
enable the full potential of Industry 4.0. To make the most of this
new mobile network, operators, industrial players, public
authorities and companies will have to work together. At Orange, we
believe in a co-construction approach. Our co-innovation with
Schneider Electric for the factory of the future is an example of
this: We are poised to support our industrial partners in their
digitalization and in the development of solutions that meet their
needs.” said Stéphane Richard, Chairman and CEO, Orange.
"The health, economic and climatic challenges make digitization
more important than ever for companies. The pilot conducted with
Orange at Le Vaudreuil in a Schneider Electric industrial showcase
validates many 5G use cases: augmented reality, remote everywhere,
real-time access to data... 5G’s reliability, scalability and
durability make it a connectivity solution well adapted to industry
4.0, for greater resilience, competitiveness and sustainability.",
said Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman and CEO of Schneider
Electric.
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leading telecommunications operators with sales of 42 billion euros
in 2019 and 143,000 employees worldwide at 30 June 2020, including
84,000 employees in France. The Group has a total customer base of
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