Partnership for smart production

With its cam­pus net­works, Deutsche Telekom offers an infra­struc­ture for the smart fac­to­ry of tomor­row. Togeth­er with part­ners from indus­try, Europe’s largest telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny wants to fur­ther expand its 5G ecosys­tem for indus­try. In process automa­tion, Deutsche Telekom is now coop­er­at­ing with Endress + Hauser.

The aim of the coop­er­a­tion is to devel­op joint offers in the field of mea­sure­ment and automa­tion tech­nol­o­gy for the process indus­try. This involves the inte­gra­tion of mea­sur­ing instru­ments and acces­sories into the next gen­er­a­tion of mobile com­mu­ni­ca­tion net­works as well as dig­i­tal ser­vices based on them. Both com­pa­nies have signed a cor­re­spond­ing mem­o­ran­dum of under­stand­ing and are now work­ing on a coor­di­nat­ed timetable.

Measuring instruments with mobile communication module

Endress + Hauser is one of the first man­u­fac­tur­ers to equip its field devices with mobile com­mu­ni­ca­tion mod­ules and to con­nect exist­ing instal­la­tions to 5G net­works via new­ly devel­oped Hart gate­ways. This enables a large num­ber of instru­ments to trans­mit a wealth of process and device data in par­al­lel and in real time. These can, for exam­ple, be used in cloud appli­ca­tions for pre­dic­tive main­te­nance of process plants.

Campus networks open second signal path

“In addi­tion to the actu­al mea­sured val­ues, our instru­ments record a wealth of infor­ma­tion from the process and about the sen­sor. 5G cam­pus net­works open up a sec­ond sig­nal path that is inde­pen­dent of the plant’s con­trol sys­tem and thus make it pos­si­ble to tap this poten­tial. This will enable us to link val­ue chains more close­ly across com­pa­ny bound­aries and make indus­tri­al process­es more efficient.”

Matthias Altendorf, CEO of Endress + Hauser

Strong partners for smart production

“Build­ing a com­plete 5G ecosys­tem for indus­try will accel­er­ate the pace of dig­i­tal­iza­tion in indus­try,” explains Clau­dia Nemat, mem­ber of the Deutsche Telekom Board of Man­age­ment, Tech­nol­o­gy and Inno­va­tion. “We look for­ward to work­ing with renowned and expe­ri­enced part­ners.” In addi­tion to the part­ner­ship with net­work sup­pli­er Eric­s­son, the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny now also coop­er­ates with E&K Automa­tion, a man­u­fac­tur­er of dri­ver­less trans­port sys­tems, and Kon­i­ca Minol­ta, which offers aug­ment­ed real­i­ty glass­es, among oth­er products.