Smart Factory

The UK government has ramped up its transformation of manufacturing and mobility with new initiatives and funding opportunities. Its ‘made smarter’ commission, aimed at unlocking £455 billion gains in the …

Throughout the ‘ask-the-experts’ session at URLLC 2018 in London earlier this month, serialised here across a number of posts, the conversation circled back time and again to 5G use cases. …

Lift maker KONE has selected AT&T to connect it elevators and escalators in North America in order to gather data, enable predictive maintenance, and improve safety and performance. AT&T said …

The marine division of US machinery and equipment maker Caterpillar has integrated OSIsoft’s data management system into its industrial artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help shipping companies reduce fuel and …

Network slicing, allowing for multiple network layers on top of a single shared infrastructure, is arguably the most significant capability of incoming 5G technologies. It brings brand new business opportunities …

The IR sensor is a crucial component in many everyday products, ranging from medical equipment to mobile phones. But the technology is 50 years old and in serious need of …

In the 5G firmament, the constellation of ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) shines brightest and newest. The other star clusters, outlining enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and massive machine-type communications (mMTC), do …

AT&T is inviting companies in the manufacturing, retail, health, finance, and public sector industries into its Foundry innovation lab in Plano, Texas, for the first time to collaborate on new …

“5G will do the boring stuff first”. The low-latency pyrotechnics that will fire the industrial sector into a new gear for the first time will come much later. The version …

  Through the new facility, Hitachi aims to foster the adoption of smart factory technology in Asia   Japanese firm Hitachi has opened a digital services hub in Thailand with …

The most advanced factories in the world are in Europe and Asia, according to a new review of smart manufacturing by the World Economic Forum. Just one of the top …

German manufacturing giant Siemens has issued a rallying cry to small-and-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to urgently embrace cultural and technological change, and grasp the opportunity of digital transformation. Specifically, Siemens …

Well established North American and European manufacturers of M2M and IoT devices have seen their share of global shipments slip by 15 per cent in the last 12 months as …

The physics of time-division duplexing in radio communications means 5G could, in certain frequency bands, struggle to achieve the ultra low latencies it promises. Worse, in some markets, regulatory forces …

If you want to do real harm to a country attack its infrastructure — utilities, for example — and its economic base — its industry. In the United States both …

The telecoms industry must get a handle on machine learning if it is to make advanced LTE and 5G communications feasible in industrial settings. This was the conclusion of a …

The telecoms industry is at odds with the enterprise sector it is seeking to serve with ultra-reliable, low-latency (URLLC) 5G communications. Industrialists want both the control of private networks and …

Germany has made its move in the international AI arms race with state support for tech start-ups, a ‘JEDI’ innovation network with France, and backing for its ‘Cyber Valley’ set-up …

Investor confidence in the burgeoning industrial ‘internet-of-things’ (IIoT) market is up, reckon industry commentators. A slew of enterprise funds and venture capital has been staked on the sector’s growth in …

In terms of digital technology, computer vision is as old as the hills. In popular terms, its theory of expanded machine consciousness emerged just as Bob Dylan and The Beatles …

Dell Technologies will release a number of pre-integrated and pre-tested computer-vision and machine-intelligence bundles for its resellers to more easily cater to certain edge-computing and internet-of-things use cases. The bundles, …

How smart is your factory? Industry 4.0 and the digital transformation process will revolutionize the future of manufacturing. By making decisions based on the meaningful use of real-time data collection …

Nokia’s new €500 million loan from the European Investment Bank for 5G research and developnent will boost the region’s drive for industrial and economic transformation, as US and Asian markets …

Momentum is building, fast, for smart manufacturing. Here, Enterprise IoT Insights presents five more use cases from leading industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions providers. Also, check out the major new report …