Timing influencing aspects of industrial applications

Abstract

Industry 4.0 offers not only new opportunities but also additional challenges for industrial applications and their communication systems. This requires a detailed knowledge of corresponding timing requirements to optimally use new technologies such as Time- Sensitive Networking (TSN) and the fifth generation cellular network technology (5G). Therefore, we provide an overview on application related timing aspects and implementation related constraints. Finally, we match application requirements towards network properties, in order to give a more detailed understanding on various timing aspects in industrial communication.