Focus on interoperability
Testbeds play a decisive role in the development of TSN towards a cross-manufacturer ecosystem. What progress has the TSN testbed at ISW made in recent years and what current challenges are currently being discussed there?
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Testbeds play a decisive role in the development of TSN towards a cross-manufacturer ecosystem. What progress has the TSN testbed at ISW made in recent years and what current challenges are currently being discussed there?
Here they are, the winners of the "Products of the Year 2022" readers' poll! Find out which products and solutions from 2021 impressed our readers!
They form the basis of Industry 4.0: components and systems from the field of communication & networking. Here are the winners in this category.
MQTT is an established protocol for edge/cloud communication. However, the OPC Foundation also wants to use OPC UA not only in the field, but also for edge/cloud communication. Their appeal: Avoid a proliferation of MQTT assignments with OPC UA!

Find out what the 3D twin can do in engineering, why the saying "data is the new oil" is not just a phrase and how TSN, OPC UA and 5G can accelerate digital business models. Also in this issue: a low-code approach for control systems.

The XR industry - VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality) and MR (Mixed Reality) - will usher in a new Moore's Law, Philip Song from Huawei is certain of this. He explained what he means by this at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The FL Switch 1000NT product family from Phoenix Contact is being further expanded and supplemented by new variants with an extended temperature range and approvals for the process industry and maritime applications.

ABB's Ability Edge Industrial Gateway is designed to collect field device and parameter data in smart plants and feed it into a simplified and accessible platform.
What are the most important trends for digital manufacturing in 2022? The IT service and cloud provider Syntax assumes that companies will be dealing with five important topics in particular.
Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is one of the key technologies for future distributed real-time applications. In addition to the actual TSN-based communication, the ecosystem and its components must be considered for successful implementation.