5G Applications of Intelligent Manufacturing Scenarios

To meet the current development requirements of Internet of Things in intelligent manufacturing field, 5G application technologies of corresponding manufacturing scenarios was studied herein. Firstly, different aspects of 5G key technologies were overviewed, including 5G-supported application scenarios, network slicing, NFV/SDN, multi-access edge computing, and D2D. After presenting an extended five-level architecture of CPS, multiple 5G applications in intelligent manufacturing scenarios were analyzed, including human-machine interfaces and production information technologies, process automation, factory automation, logistics and warehousing, equipment monitoring and maintenance. Furthermore, a 5G-based edge computing development framework was proposed to achieve the integration of the above-mentioned application scenarios. Finally, the challenges faced by 5G in intelligent manufacturing were discussed, which is helpful to the implementation of 5G-supported intelligent manufacturing.