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Connectivity Why Wireless? New Degrees of Freedom for Manufacturing

From Dr. Miriam Solera Ureña* | Translated by AI 5 min Reading Time

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Connected manufacturing emerges not through "cable or wireless," but through the intelligent interplay of both communication forms. Wireless solutions provide the flexibility and scalability that make modern production architectures competitive.

Large-scale or rapidly growing IoT scenarios in factory automation can often only be implemented using conventional cabling with considerable infrastructure costs. Wireless technologies can offer great added value when used in a complementary and sensible way.(Source: © JK_kyoto - stock.adobe.com / AI-generated)
Large-scale or rapidly growing IoT scenarios in factory automation can often only be implemented using conventional cabling with considerable infrastructure costs. Wireless technologies can offer great added value when used in a complementary and sensible way.
(Source: © JK_kyoto - stock.adobe.com / AI-generated)

Today, production systems are generating and processing an ever-increasing amount of data for control, monitoring and maintenance. This is resulting in increasingly networked production, which is dependent on the communication infrastructure for production-relevant data streams functioning securely and reliably, while at the same time being systematically prioritized and sustainably aligned along future transformation paths.

Cabled systems are increasingly reaching their limits in modern production environments: Mobile machines, moving or permanently rotating applications, autonomous transportation systems are examples of this. In addition, moving cables to sensors or tools in assembly robots are subject to high mechanical wear, with the risk of hardware-related downtimes. At the same time, large-scale or rapidly growing IoT scenarios with conventional cabling can often be implemented with considerable infrastructure costs.

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