During the 2024 Mobile World Congress, under the theme of “Network Based Smart Leadership for the Future”, China Unicom held an innovation results conference with global ecological partners such as GSMA, France Telecom, Huawei, Schneider, State Grid Shandong Electric Power, Siemens and Qualcomm, and launched a 5G industrial manufacturing private network to empower new industrialization and build new quality productivity. Promoting the transformation and upgrading of the digital economy. The product takes advantage of the ultra-high speed, ultra-low delay and ultra-large connection characteristics of 5G private networks to provide deterministic, reliable and secure network services for industrial sites, effectively meeting the diversified business needs of the industrial field.

1756-L62  5G boosts “Industrial manufacturing” to “Industrial intelligent Manufacturing”

The deep integration of 5G technology and the real economy has spawned many new industries and new models. This phenomenon is particularly obvious in the industrial field, large-scale flexible customization and transparent production and other new models are gradually reshaping the whole process of industrial manufacturing, more and more industrial manufacturing enterprises to flexible, digital, intelligent transformation and upgrading, and 5G private network has become a key tool to change “manufacturing” to “intelligent manufacturing”, as the digital infrastructure of industrial production. Comprehensively support the construction of industrial-grade CT, OT, IT network integration capabilities.

China Unicom deeply cultivates the industry market, focuses on the pain points 1756-L62  of industrial customers, fully taps typical core application scenarios, accelerates the extension from peripheral assistance to the core production link, and achieves a double breakthrough in the breadth and depth of 5G+ industrial Internet. Since 2022, it has continuously upgraded Unicom’s 5G private network PLUS product system, served more than 9,000 industry private network customers in total, created Schneider’s first commercial “5G+PLC” flexible production line in the industry, and verified the high reliability based on 5G-A uRLLC 4ms@99.999% for the first time in Great Wall Seige. It won the “5G Private Network Industry Leadership Award” at the 19th 5G World Summit and the “Best Business Innovation Award” at the 8th 5GC Summit, which represents the industry’s high recognition of Unicom’s 5G private network enabling industrial transformation and upgrading.

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Tailored, launched 5G industrial manufacturing private network products

5G private networks bring significant advantages to industrial manufacturing, but how to choose the right products has become a headache for many enterprises. The 5G industrial manufacturing private network products released by China Unicom are divided into three versions, respectively, Basic version, Plus version and Pro version, tailored for different scenarios, whether it is the industry leader or small and medium-sized enterprises, can find their own solutions.

1756-L62  The Basic version is mainly targeted at campus/factory level production support network scenarios, which usually have less stringent latency and reliability requirements. China Unicom and industry leaders jointly launched this “small and beautiful” program, aiming to provide mature and easy-to-use 5G solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises, so that they can use 5G technology to bring intelligent upgrades.

The Plus version is mainly for the workshop production network scene, the number of connections in the core production of SCADA, MES and other scenes is large, the connection scene is complex, and the reliability requirements are higher. On the basis of the Basic version, China Unicom has added 5G LAN, 5G positioning and other capabilities to meet the connection needs of the scenario, and has improved the delay and reliability.

The Pro version is mainly for the production line industrial control network scenario, and the PLC and industrial control scenes in the production line industrial control network have clear needs for stable ultra-low ductility, ultra-high reliability, and extremely high safety. The 5G industrial manufacturing private network Pro version meets the networking needs of PLC, industrial control and other equipment in the production line through exclusive MEC superposition control surface sinking, TSN,1756-L62  synsention and other technologies.

In addition, China Unicom has also released an end-to-end number card terminal, network management platform and application platform. As a key link to connect factory equipment, the number card terminal provides stable and reliable data transmission capability. The network management platform can monitor and manage the private network in real time to ensure the stable operation of the network. The application platform provides rich application scenarios, such as integrated positioning, industrial control platform, remote monitoring, etc., to provide a full range of services for the factory.

With the continuous advancement of the digital wave, 5G technology has become an important driving force for the transformation and upgrading of industrial manufacturing. The 5G industrial manufacturing private network products released by China Unicom undoubtedly provide new possibilities for factories to achieve efficient and intelligent production, and provide strong “source power” for the comprehensive service of new industrialization.