ABB to showcase first industrial artificial intelligence application using 5G wireless technology

ABB展示首个使用5G无线技术的工业人工智能应用

June 17, 2019 - ABB is piloting an industrial artificial intelligence (AI) application using 5G wireless technology to support the assembly of drives at its plant in Pitäjänmäki, Helsinki. ABB is implementing the solution in partnership with mobile phone operator Telia and software engineering firm Atostek Oy, which specializes in industrial applications.

2019年6月17日——ABB正在使用5G无线技术测试工业人工智能（AI）应用，以支持赫尔辛基Pitäjänmäki工厂的驱动器装配。 ABB正在与手机运营商Telia和专注于工业应用的软件工程公司Atostek Oy合作实施该解决方案。

The AI application will support the plant’s workers by monitoring the assembly of the drives by camera and ensuring they are correctly assembled according to a customer’s order and applicable work instructions. The fast 5G connections will provide workers with real-time feedback and this should make assembly significantly easier than following work instructions from a paper document, thereby helping to improve quality.

AI应用程序将通过摄像头监控驱动器的组装，并确保它们根据客户的订单和适用的工作指令正确组装，从而为工厂的工人提供支持。快速的5G连接将为工人提供实时反馈，这将使装配比遵循纸质文档中的工作说明容易得多，从而有助于提高质量。

Atostek is responsible for the computer vision and the AI application. Telia is providing the system’s 5G mobile connections and providing the computing capacity needed by the application in its data center. The project is being implemented in stages and will be in full-scale production in June 2019.

Atostek负责计算机视觉和AI应用程序。Telia提供系统的5G移动连接，并在其数据中心提供应用所需的计算能力。该项目正在分阶段实施，将于2019年6月全面投产。

The application is being applied to the power module assembly line, which is critical to production quality and demanding for employees as dozens of different versions of the same product are assembled on the same line. 

该应用正在应用于电源模块组装线，这对于生产质量至关重要，对员工的要求也很高，因为相同产品的许多不同版本在同一条产线上组装。

5G enables wireless technology to be applied much more widely than has so far been possible and this is expected to significantly boost global production over the next few years. By introducing the 5G AI solution, ABB and its partners are exploring how industrial applications that require high data capacity and high computing power can be implemented in scalable form in the future, regardless of location. For example, the AI application could be integrated with enterprise resource planning systems.

5G使无线技术的应用比迄今所能实现的要广泛得多，这有望在未来几年内显著提高全球产量。通过引入5G人工智能解决方案，ABB及其合作伙伴正在探索如何在未来以可扩展的形式实现需要高数据容量和高计算能力的工业应用，而无论其位于何处。例如，AI应用程序可以与企业资源规划系统集成。

ABB’s drives plant in Helsinki is ABB’s leading unit in the development of low voltage drives. The plant has around 1300 employees. Globally, ABB’s drive business involves around 6,000 employees in a total of over 80 countries.

ABB在赫尔辛基的驱动器工厂是开发低压驱动产品的领先单位。该工厂拥有约1300名员工。在全球范围内，ABB的驱动器业务涉及80多个国家的约6,000名员工。