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16 ADI | Engineering a More Sustainable Future 4 DrIVING HIGHer LeVeLS OF FLexIBILITy, PrODuCTIVITy, AND SuSTAINABILITy IN SMArT MANuFACTurING Superior Motion Control Superior motion control reduces the time it takes to complete a manufactur- ing step, thereby increasing throughput and manufacturing productivity while reducing energy consumption. Examples include precise position and torque control for higher quality and faster machining, such as by reducing the number of steps and time to machine a complex component. The key requirements to deliver superior motion control include improved control loop performance, robust solutions for harsh industrial deployments, and high levels of integration to enable high reliability, small form factor solutions. These are in turn enabled by low latency, low drift, multiphase current and position sensing and signal chains with high transient robustness and highly integrated components. Robustness, Safety, and Reliability Robust, reliable solutions that extend assets' usable lifetimes are key to more sustainable smart manufacturing. By extending asset lifetimes, we significantly reduce the consumption of raw material and energy to build replacement assets. Power management solutions for both power regulation and power protection are key components to deliver more robust and reliable assets. Power manage- ment requirements include high-side power supplies for insulated gate bipolar transistors ( IGBTs ) , high power density solutions for FPGA and processors, digital point of load ( PoL ) for power management telemetry, EMC robustness, high ambient temperature operation, and data and power isolation to protect users from high voltages. Reliable use of new wide band gap power switches ( made from silicon carbide ( SiC ) and gallium nitride ( GaN )) puts new challenges and requirements to provide fast overcurrent protected systems and robust operation. Real-Time Connectivity In high performance, multi-axis, synchronized motion applications, control timing requirements are precise, deterministic, and time critical, with a require- ment to minimize end-to-end latency, especially as control cycle times get shorter and control algorithm complexity increases. These high performance applications require real-time connectivity with sub-ms network cycle time to control complex motion applications. Smart manufacturing uses vision systems alongside motion applications to monitor manufacturing quality and increase production safety. Industrial Ethernet networks must support the coexistence of both real-time deterministic motion control traffic and best-effort vision traffic on the same network up to Gb bandwidth. The interoperability of devices and controllers connected to the networks is required to deliver seamless data flow throughout the manufacturing installation and ensures data transparency to the higher-level management systems while making these networks more flexible and scalable by reducing commissioning time. A converged ( IT/OT ) Ethernet network ensures seamless access of motion insights to the higher-level management software systems, for analysis, to optimize the manufacturing flow and accelerate digital transformation. Advanced Sensing Advanced sensing solutions create motion insights that can be used to optimize the manufacturing flow and detect early signs of failure. Sensing modalities include position, current, voltage, magnetic field, temperature, vibration, and shock. New business models are being created by using advanced sensing to deploy real-time monitoring of an asset's health to provide predictive mainte- nance services contracts based on increasing asset uptime. Advanced sensing requirements include robustness in harsh industrial environments ( for example, those with a lot of dust ) , accurate position sensing, contactless high current sensing, high bandwidth current and vibration sensing, reduced calibration to ensure accuracy of the solutions, and small solution sizes for encoder type applications. Key Technologies to Accelerate Higher Value Motion Control Solutions A combination of technologies is required for the next generation of intelligent motion control solutions for smart manufacturing. These technologies when com- bined deliver robust, precise motion control for harsh industrial deployments with access to system insights from advanced sensing ( see Figure 4 ) . Figure 4. Key technologies to accelerate higher value motion solutions with access to system insights. Power Management Isolation and Interface Technology Precision Measurement Machine Health Magnetic Sensing Industrial Ethernet 4