Helping the development of Industry 4.0 The Shiqiang Innovation and Application Seminar was held in Shenzhen

On December 15, in order to solve this hot problem, the "2016 Industry 4.0 Innovation Application Touring Seminar" hosted by Shiqiang, the world's advanced electronic component distribution enterprise, was successfully held in Shenzhen.

At the meeting, a number of senior industry technical experts invited by Shiqiang analyzed the current and future trends of Industry 4.0, and conducted in-depth discussions with the engineers present on topics such as ultra-low loss IGBT technology, multi-protocol single-chip industrial Ethernet technology, complete low-cost power devices, drivers and cooling solutions according to the application of inverter servo, new energy, charging piles and other products and their end markets.

In this regard, technical experts said that the trend of miniaturization, high precision, and corresponding speed of Industry 4.0 will play a positive role in promoting the daily life of enterprises and the general public. For example, the new energy vehicle, robot market, industrial automation, etc., which are very popular now.

Taking new energy vehicles as an example, new energy vehicles have grown explosively in recent years, and charging piles closely related to them have also become a hot spot of people's attention. However, due to poor compatibility of charging piles, uneven quality of charging piles, high construction costs, and difficult installation, charging piles have not really been built on a large scale, which has caused the problem of charging difficulties for new energy vehicle users.

In response to this problem, the technical experts invited by Shiqiang said that the development time of charging piles is still short, and many technologies and products need to be upgraded and improved. Only by fundamentally solving these problems can charging piles be better developed and solve the problem of new energy vehicle users pinching power to determine travel itinerary faster. For example, in the charging pile system, the voltage and current of the bus and the voltage and current of the output port need to be monitored, so it is necessary to use isolated voltage and current sampling devices. In the past, the isolation of charging piles generally adopted traditional optocoupler isolation, but in recent years, digital isolation has also been increasingly favored by designers. Because digital isolation is faster, longer life, and more immunized than optocouplers.

At the same time, Shiqiang's technical experts mentioned that in industry, because there is still a big gap between domestic industries and industrial powers in terms of technical equipment, energy and raw material consumption, product quality and management level, how to quickly promote the transformation and upgrading of industrial automation has become a hot topic of concern for the government and the public. Among them, industrial Ethernet will become the next intelligent manufacturing enterprise with its advantages of real-time, low latency, high-speed and large-capacity communication, and support for multiple protocols. After connecting to industrial Ethernet, enterprises will greatly improve production efficiency and safety, and truly realize centralized control and real-time control, so as to achieve factory automation, that is, to achieve unmanned production.

That's why more and more manufacturers are now building their own industrial networks and associating them with industrial robots. In Ningbo, 414 "machine substitution" technical transformation projects have been completed and accepted; In Shenzhen, in order to promote the transformation of "Made in Longgang" to "Made in Longgang", the Longgang District Government even organized a "machine substitution" experience promotion meeting in each street. Some manufacturers even revealed that in the two years of implementing "machine substitution", they have saved nearly 100 million yuan in labor costs every year.

After the "Industry 4.0 Innovation Application Seminar" at Shiqiang, some participating engineers said that the seminar explained and discussed the latest and most advanced Industry 4.0 device products, cutting-edge technologies and innovative application solutions, and the engineers gained a lot. An engineer said that through Shiqiang's introduction, the high-intelligence gantry driver IC introduced at the meeting will be used in the recent product design, which can reduce peripheral devices, improve accuracy and reliability, and make the product smaller while increasing the driving capacity. Another directly said that the perfect alternative to traditional optocouplers not only solves the limited circuit board space of the products currently being designed, but also needs to take into account the problem of high-speed and low-speed digital isolation, which can save 10% of the cost compared with the previous products, which is truly a beautiful and inexpensive solution.

The relevant person in charge of Shiqiang said: "Since its establishment 23 years ago, Shiqiang has been committed to serving the innovation of enterprises. This seminar is held to help engineers understand Industry 4.0 related device products and cutting-edge technology solutions, so as to better solve their innovation problems. Not only that, online, Shiqiang also further solves the series of needs of engineers through the Shiqiang component e-commerce platform, thereby helping enterprises greatly shorten R&D time, effectively reduce development costs, and quickly improve innovation capabilities. Shiqiang hopes that through a series of online and offline efforts, he will finally contribute to the comprehensive innovation of Chinese enterprises and the process of Industry 4.0. ”