Manufacturing scenario

In an effort to make the manufacturing process more efficient, we see assembly-line robots, warehouse robots, acoustic calibrators, and industrial cameras inspecting flaws on the manufacturing line becoming more commonplace in the realm of industrial automation. From an edge computing perspective, these are all edge devices that run applications specific to the tasks they perform. We will look at a scenario that uses AI to detect anomalies or flaws in robotic welding, with the ultimate goal of preventing assembly-line stoppage. Typically, such quality checks are done manually by the quality control (QC) team, which adds time delays and could be costly.

The four groups of components in this scenario are:

• The devices, including robotic welding components and ruggedized cameras on the shop floor
• The edge-related platform components in the enterprise
• 5G networking components and software
• Services in the enterprise cloud

Enterprises have...