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Connectivity in Drives to

support digitalization trends

John Conboy, Director – Drives MENA

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The virtual image

What does connectivity enable?

How can connectivity be enabled?

Digital Twin

Connectivity

Methods

Business OpportunitiesNew

Digitalization trends and Connectivity

Digitalization

Digital Transformation

Digitization

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Digitization, digitalization and digital

transformation: the differences

…is creating a digitalversion of

analog/physical things

Digitization

…is the process of moving to become a digital

business

Digitalization

…is the profound transformation of business

and organizational activities,

processes, competencies and

models

Digital transformation

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The virtual imageDigital Twin

Digitalization trends and Connectivity

Digitalization

Digital Transformation

Digitization

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A replica of the drive system

used for real time optimization,

off-line optimization of models,

condition monitoring,

diagnostics and prognostics

Represents a drive and related

information in the digital world

It shall provide all digital

information for a product in all

phases of the life cycle for all

stakeholders

The Digital Twin

A set of mathematical models

that can reflect the state of the

real product

Born in “guided selling” phase before physical product but

digital twin will remain as virtual

The Drives

Digital Twin is

all product and

process related

data, collected

throughout the

product

lifecycle and

beyond

It provides a holistic virtual

image of the product or the

machine over the entire life cycle

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The Digital Twin

1

Sales

Simulation

Models

CRM

2

Order

Product

Definition

3

Build

Build a Product

Component

tracking

As build

4

Final Test

Product

Test results

5

Shipping

Tracking

6

Commissioning

Drive and

Application

optimization

7

In Production

Monitoring

Process optimization

Predictive maintenance

8

End of Life

Re-order

Based on the

Digital Twin

All things connectedConnectivity

Business New

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What does connectivity enable?Connectivity

Digitalization trends and Connectivity

Digitalization

Digital Transformation

Digitization

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Connectivity in Drives

1Connectivity

“…can exist without a digital twin but a digital

twin cannot exist without

connectivity”

3Connectivity

“…is the umbrella, that embraces all

terminologies/technologies that

are applied to achieve the link

from the edge(Drive) to the

endpoint”

2Connectivity

“…is the key enabler to gather relevant Drive

information for the digital

twin”

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How can connectivity be enabled? Methods

Digitalization trends and Connectivity

Digitalization

Digital Transformation

Digitization

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Methods

▪ Control

▪ Optimization

▪ Analytics

▪ Predictive

maintenance

▪ Edge Security (Data

encryption even

before sending to next

level)

The Edge

▪ Ethernet

▪ Wired

▪ Wireless

▪ 5G

▪ IPv6

▪ Security

The transport layer

▪ OPC-UA

▪ OPC-UA RT(TSN)

▪ MQTT

▪ AMQP

▪ Traditional Fieldbus

The Protocol

▪ Control system,

SCADA, BMS,

▪ Cloud data centers

▪ DrivePro® Services

The End point

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Methods

Traditional Fieldbuses

Automation

Drive

VLTAutomation

Drive

VLTAutomation

Drive

VLTAutomation

Drive

VLT

Machine level fieldbus

Gateway

New upcoming

connectivityTransition solutions

Automation

Drive

VLTAutomation

Drive

VLTAutomation

Drive

VLTAutomation

Drive

VLT

Machine level fieldbus

IoT connection

Plant

Gateway

IoT

(Broker)Gateway

Automation

Drive

VLTAutomation

Drive

VLTAutomation

Drive

VLTAutomation

Drive

VLT

OPC-UA, OPC-UA/RT, MQTT, 5G, Security, IPv6

Relay Broker

(Optional)

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Business OpportunitiesNew

Digitalization trends and Connectivity

Digitalization

Digital Transformation

Digitization

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Key takeaways

Collecting

data from the Drives can

be seen as “digitizing” data and measurements

values from the Drive

Digitalization

happens in the Digital

Twin because data are

managed as part of a

bigger picture

Connectivity(IoT)

is the key enabler of

digitalization and digital

transformation. New

networking technologies

becomes faster, cost

decreases significantly.

Digital Twin

is then leading to the

digital transformation

Digital transformation

Creating new business

opportunities

New values and

opportunities for customers

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A better tomorrow is

driven by drives