Smart Factory

Car maker Audi, like other giants of German manufacturing, is sitting on a tranche of vacant radio spectrum that has been liberated by the German telecoms regulator for test purposes …

Finnish vendor Nokia announced the launch of its Nokia Open Innovation Challenge (NOIC), through which the company aims to attract technology startups with innovative and disruptive solutions for the industrial …

The drive to make advanced industrial analytics more accessible is gathering pace. Rockwell Automation has just released a new articificial intelligence (AI) module for “predictive analytics without a data scientist”, …

Ericsson has teamed up with Canadian systems integrator Ambra Solutions to sell private LTE and 5G networks to mining companies worldwide. Ambra will partner with Ericsson customers, in the shape …

Nokia will provide the cellular plumbing for a new €18 million public-private research initiative into the application of 5G in the industrial space. The project, which goes under the moniker …

Chinese vendor ZTE has signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement with compatriot heavy equipment manufacturing company Sany to promote the integration of 5G and industry while accelerating the digital transformation …

Finnish network vendor Nokia and Finnish private LTE provider Ukkoverkot have signed a four-year deal to bring connectivity, automation, and intelligence to the Port of Kokkola, also in Finland. The …

UK-based Mettis Aerospace, manufacturer of components for the likes of Airbus, Boeing and Rolls-Royce, is to test Wi-Fi 6 for connecting industrial machines and processes. The Wireless Broadband Alliance said …

German automotive manufacturer Volkswagen will start construction of its own 5G mobile networks in 122 factories in Germany in 2020, according to a report in Wirtschaftswoche, the German business magazine. …

Deutsche Telekom said private networks are easy to talk about, but hard to manage, at Hannover Messe 2019 last week, swatting away the perceived jeapordy for operators in the industrial …

Schneider Electric has launched a new digital ecosystem, called Exchange, to foster collaboration between industry, software, and startup elements within the IoT space. The French automation specialist wants to drive …

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Bernd Gross, chief technology officer at Software AG, is sitting in a side room, off a busy booth at Hannover Messe 2019. The Darmstadt outfit looks a different proposition, he …

In Germany, they’ve made a verb out of the UK’s protracted divorce from the European Union: ‘to Brexit’ – sich verabschieden, aber nicht gehen (to say goodbye, but fail to …

Microsoft and the BMW have combined to foster easier, cheaper, faster innovation in the manufacturing sector. The pair have launched an ‘open manufacturing platform’ (OMP) to “break down” barriers with …

Future 5G investments will focus on creating service revenues HANNOVER, Germany–Despite major marketing efforts coming out of the telecoms sector, industrial manufacturers today aren’t focused on “leveraging 5G within the …

German industrial giant Bosch has set out a vision for a 5G-enabled factory where every part of the production environment is fluid, except for the floors, walls, and ceilings. Industrial …

The telecoms community and the industrial space must engage more closely if they are to achieve the kind of heightened control and intelligence in factories and warehouses that 5G promises. …

The operator community has been widely criticised for its failure to serve industrial markets with high quality connectivity, acknowledged Deutsche Telekom at Hannover Messe 2019. The German operator has addressed …

The Swedish vendor said this agreement will enable Industrial IoT and artificial intelligence technologies in the future Ericsson and ABB, a Swiss-Swedish company focused on digital industries, have strengthened their …

Telecoms veterans Nokia and Qualcomm have a deployed 5G network and a number of 5G test devices at Hannover Messe 2019 for various European industrial giants including Bosch, Siemens, and …

Infineon Technologies has released a new ‘trusted platform module’ (TPM) to protect data in industrial PCs, servers, industrial controllers, and edge gateways. Its new OPTIGA TPM SLM 9670 controls access …

Bosch has raised more than €1.5 billion in revenue from the implementation of Industry 4.0 techniques in its own factories, as well as its customers’ factories, during the past four …