The Time Sensitive Networking for Flexible Manufacturing Testbed is an award-winning Industrial Internet Consortium testbed hosted by National Instruments and Bosch. The testbed is focused on manufacturing, but can be usful in a wide range of applications, including utilities, transportation and oil and gas.

1. Time Sensitive
Networks for Flexible
Manufacturing
November 2017

2. Introduction
For Manufacturing Automation and
Control and Infrastructure vendors
(and soon energy and transportation)
who require deterministic capabilities
on the network,
our testbed converges more devices,
applications and systems on a single,
standard, open, inter-connected
network
that is the driver of the IIoT
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3. Manufacturing operations have historically deployed non-standard networks or air-gapped
(unconnected) networks leaving devices and data much harder or impossible to access.
To implement IoT applications, manufacturers must be confident in network performance at the
edge, ensuring connected assets operate as expected. The Challenges for this testbed:
The Challenge
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Swap Proprietary out for Standard Deterministic Networks
No longer require networks with special infrastructure and know-how and do not
benefit from innovation in standard networks (e.g. speed, power, size)
Converge Air-Gapped Networks
Enable Customers, Vendors and Service Providers to deliver IIoT benefits by
accessing rich edge networks
Simplify and Automate System and Network Configuration
Manufacturing requires Operations to manage and run the networks that
support Plant applications

4. What problems do we address?
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Collaboration b/w Chip,
Infrastructure, Testing &
Device vendors
By including all major
technology suppliers, we
accelerate the feedback loop
Provide feedback to
Standards
Give companies insight
to standards as they are
developed and means
to give feedback
Accelerate Technology
Adoption
Enable Developers to test
whether new products
interoperate in real plant
systems. Display to the
ecosystem the business value

5. The testbed documents the value of TSN and provides feedback to the relevant standards
organizations on areas of further clarification or improvement.
The Testbed Solution
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Testing resources The testbed offers participants to test whether their product works with
other devices and access to cutting-edge testing tools
Create testing guidelines for interoperability of key TSN standards for Time Synchronization,
Traffic Scheduling and System Configuration
Converge Application standards from OPC, ODVA and others to validate ability to converge
multiple traffic types
Collaboration of major technology suppliers: chip, testing tools, network infrastructure,
software and industrial end-devices; to accelerate exchange of expertise
Market technology and products with outbound deliverables and a demo wall that goes to
10+ major events a year
Ecosystem of 20+ vendors (chip makers, switches, automation devices and testing products)
and standards organizations

6. Progress Report
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2015 Testbed
Approved
• Approved by IIC
Steering
Committee May
2015
Global Demos
• Featured at
events: IoT
Solutions World
Congress,
Hannover Messe,
SPS Drives, NI
Week, DE Forum,
IoT World
• 2nd major
overhaul for 2017
to add more apps
Plug-fests
• Hosted multiple
plug-fests at NI’s
Industrial IoT Lab
in Austin, TX
• Attract new
participants
• Series continues
in both testbed
location
• Benchmarks
continue to be
reached
Testbed Award
Winner
• Won IIC’s Q1
Testbed Showcase
for delivering the
most strategic
value to IIoT
• Won IoT SWC Best
Testbed award
2017
• Featured in the
Journal of
Innovation
Growing
Ecosystem
• 23 vendors
participating
• Opened 2nd
permanent location at
BoschRexroth’s plant
in Erbach, Germany
• Collaboration with
IEEE, IETF, AVNU, OPC
and ODVA

7. The Team
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• Analog Devices
• Avnu Alliance
• B&R Industrial Automation
• BoschRexroth
• Calnex
• Cisco
• Hilscher
• Belden/Hirschmann
• Kalycito
• ISW
• Intel
• Ixia
• KUKA
• National Instruments
• OPC Foundation
• Phoenix Contact
• Pilz
• Renesas Electronics
• SICK AG
• TTTech
• WAGO
• Xilinx

8. What’s next?
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Activity Timeline
Building Interoperability rack to test
robustness of TSN technology and devices
Q1 2018
Adding new TSN functions (e.g. frame pre-
emption, ingress policing, resilient time synch)
2018
Revamping the demonstrator Q2 2018 (Hannover)
Have questions about this
testbed?
Send an email to
info@iiconsortium.org

9. Embracing the goals of the IIC, this
testbed is accelerating the adoption of
key IIOT technologies thru early standard
interoperability testing, collaboration with
key technology suppliers and standard
organizations.
Manufacturing operations have
historically been deployed using
non-standard network
infrastructure or air-gapped
(unconnected) networks leaving
devices and data much harder to
access.
The Problem
Time Sensitive Networks
for Flexible Manufacturing
Our Solution
Team
Enhanced Ethernet technology to
support real-time control and
synchronization of high performance
machines over a single, standard
Ethernet network, supporting multi-
vendor interoperability and
integration.
• Over 20 organizations including
chip vendors, testing tools,
network infrastructure, SW
tools and end-device makers
• Collaboration with IEEE, AVNU,
OPC, ODVA and others
Key Benefits
• Secure and reliable delivery of data
• Guaranteed latency for data
delivery
• Converged networks save operating
costs
• Simple system configuration and
operation
• Open ecosystem
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