Swedish operator Telenor has tied-up with country-mate Ericsson to sell the vendor’s pre-packed private LTE and 5G to factories and warehouses. It is the first operator to sign as a reseller of the Industry 4.0 bundle –announced a year ago.
Transport company Scania, another Swedish...
German car giants Volkswagen and BMW have confirmed massive Industry 4.0 investments, and firmed up their interests in private industrial 5G as a means to factory automation and slicker production.
Volkswagen has announced “further” investment in digital technologies at its flagship plant in Wolfsburg. The...
CK Hutchison, owner of the Hutchison telecoms group in Asia and Three (3) mobile brand in Europe, has opened a centre of excellence to provide bespoke private LTE and 5G networks for large enterprises.
It cited as prime candidates for industrial LTE and 5G enterprises...
How does a mobile operator, in the business of airtime subscriptions, go beyond selling straight connectivity? Because this must be the goal, and the measure of ambition. There is no future in SIM cards, as we have argued – especially as technological innovation higher...
The Irish government has unveiled a five-year Industry 4.0 strategy to help manufacturing firms to respond to technological change.
The plan, announced last month, includes €23.5 million of funding for the Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) Centre, a joint initiative between Enterprise Ireland and the IDA,...
As the headline suggests, this analysis should be seen in context. It offers only rapid arithmetic around the World Economic Forum’s (expanding) list of ‘lighthouse’ factories, which claim the most success with digital change. It considers the available data (the location and ownership of...
Steve Szabo, head of global products and solutions for IoT, Verizon Business:
"Digital transformation is a hot topic, but it is not a new topic. And it is, itself, transforming.
"In 2000, the degree to which a company could consider itself on a path to digital...
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5G will only gets its wings in 2023, or thereabouts, when its full functionality is revealed in a standalone version of the new radio (NR) standard. That is when it will take flight, and change the world – or, at least, establish a control...
Nokia is to equip a major state-run industrial training facility in Brazil with 5G and AI to accelerate Industry 4.0 skills, trials, and deployments in the region.
The Finnish vendor will deploy connectivity and analytics solutions at the country’s National Service for Industrial Training (SENAI-SP)...
Germany industrial giant Siemens has announced a deal to acquire US startup Pixeom for an undisclosed fee, in a move to boost its industrial automation and digitalization division.
Pixeom, responsible for the original Raspberry Pi-based personal cloud platform back in 2014, offers a software-defined edge...
Like it, love it or hate it? Enterprises are unsure about what to make of 5G. A study conducted by Barclays found that at best only 9% were allocating resources for 5G and at worst, only 28% know what 5G is. In other words,...
The European Commission is offering manufacturing companies funding of €60,000 each to run collaborative smart manufacturing experiments at neutral hub sites, with a total funding pot stretching to almost €1 million.
The Commission has invited small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing and...
Make smart factories smart - use data analytics to maximize throughput, minimize downtime, and reduce expenses. Industry 4.0 is all about optimizing business processes through the application of digital technologies and workflows. A successful smart factory connects essential technologies across the organization with strategic...
The government of Vietnam has signed an agreement with Ericsson through which the latter will help accelerate the adoption of Industry 4.0 in the Asian nation, the Swedish vendor said in a release.
According to the Brookings Institute, Vietnam exported $ 45 billion worth of...
Srinivas Garigipati, chief technology officer for the manufacturing business group at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), talks with Enterprise IoT Insights about the impacts of incoming 5G technology on the broad industrial space, covering product manufacturing, and running through the entire supply chain.
How much interest...
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 machines, devices, and vehicles will be made mobile by 5G and made intelligent by...
Traditional industrial technology giants are transforming their businesses by buying, funding or partnering with connected and intelligent manufacturing technologies and data management companies. The trend is most notable in Europe, among companies like like Bosch Rexroth and Siemens. At the same time, China is...
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘1.8k suppliers, 31m parts, 10k vehicles – How BMW is making sense of its supply chain’. Click here to go to the previous article.
But BMW’s major drive, to date, has been around automation. Indeed,...
BMW Group has a global roster of about 1,800 suppliers, scattered at 4,000 points across the globe. Together, they deliver 31 million parts to 30 BMW production sites, worldwide, every day. At the same time, almost 10,000 vehicles come off its production lines daily,...
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘Industrial companies are building private networks because they have to, says Nokia’. Click here to go to the previous article.
Where were we? Oh yes: part-way through a narrative about the desire of industry to...
Vodafone will use a range of private networking options to serve industrial verticals, it has said, as it develops its advanced LTE and emerging 5G proposition for enterprises. These options include spot usage of unlicensed LTE, localised usage of public LTE, and dedicated slices...
IBM has introduced a new suite of industrial internet of things (IoT) solutions for preventative and predictive downtime and maintenance that leverage artificial intelligence and advanced analytics.
The solution will reduce the risk of failure of physical assets including vehicles, manufacturing robots, turbines, mining...
Siemens made its case this week as the global leader for Industry 4.0 at a pre-show meet ahead of Hannover Messe 2019. The German industrial powerhouse suggested it has the form, momentum, and strategy to deliver industrial transformation on a grander scale than rival...
