industry 4.0

Finnish vendor Nokia has opened a 55,000 square-metre campus in Oulu in its home country for 5G/6G design, manufacturing, and testing. It integrates a bunch of Industry 4.0 tech, and …

Gilead Sciences is building an AI-enabled lab in Foster City, California, as the first part of a $32bn investment scheme that includes a number of a new high-tech Industry 4.0 …

The GSMA has waded into the debate about whether India should allocate mid-band spectrum for private 5G, urging the government that a carrier-led model is best. Meanwhile, word on the …

Argentina’s telecoms regulator has opened the 2.3-2.4 GHz band for private 4G/5G networks, offering 10-year SPIBA licences for indoor/outdoor enterprise use to support Industry 4.0 growth in the country. In …

Norway’s Tampnet is deploying private 5G, LEO satellite backhaul, and edge computing variously for Island Drilling’s semi-submersible rig and Vår Energi’s floating production unit (FPSO) in the North Sea – …

Enterprises including Disney, Foxconn, Hitachi, Hyundai, Lilly, SAP, Siemens, and TSMC have deployed Nvidia’s new RTX Pro server platform to transform old computing clusters into AI factories; CoreWeave and Google …

Private 5G is gaining traction globally, with deployments from Tesla to Sinopec showing measurable productivity, safety, and efficiency gains, reinforcing forecasts of rapid market growth and momentum toward mainstream industrial …

Honeywell has acquired SparkMeter’s utility platforms in a tuck-in deal to expand its smart energy software, aligning with its strategy of spinning off legacy units while bolstering digital energy-transition capabilities. …

Private 5G spending will hit $5bn by 2028 (41% CAGR), push-to-talk revenues will reach $12bn (11% CAGR), and Industry 4.0 sales will climb to $1.6tn by 2030 (19.4% CAGR) – …

Few Indian enterprises responded to the government’s private 5G spectrum survey, undermining direct-access plans and strengthening mobile operators’ control. Vendor hopes for India to be the next big private 5G …

India’s private 5G spectrum policy remains undecided, with operators resisting liberalisation. COAI argues that an operator-led model is the only solution for India’s unique industrial setup – while the rest …

Indian carrier alliance COAI has issued a strongly-worded statement to oppose a government review of spectrum allocation for private 5G networks – citing good public 5G, plus high costs, spectrum …

AWS has expanded its AI offerings with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Bedrock and OpenAI’s open weight models on Bedrock and SageMaker; they join a stable …

More tales of the rising momentum in the private networks market: BSNL has teed-up Numaligarh Refinery Limited in India, Nokia is supplying GSM-R (actually on 2G, with a 4G/5G evolution …

Celona’s new AerFlex system does away with expensive edge hardware and complex RF management to offer easy cloud orchestration and compliant local breakout – to open private 5G to new …

NXP has acquired Port GmbH to integrate industrial protocol software into its processors – as the Dutch firm seeks to assert control over the most critical point in the industrial …

T-Mobile and Ericsson deployed a private 5G network for Czech manufacturer Tawesco in the 3.4-3.8 GHz band to support Industry 4.0 applications; there are plans to expand the project across …

Private 5G networks will grow due to demand for secure, high-quality connectivity—especially in manufacturing and energy. Lower costs, service models, and MNO resurgence are set to broaden adoption and scale. …

Mayo Clinic deploys Nvidia’s Blackwell DGX B200 servers and DGX SuperPOD platform to build scalable AI infrastructure for multimodal and generative foundation models in pathology, drug discovery, and precision medicine. …

Viasat has launched IoT Nano, a low-power satellite IoT service using Orbcomm’s OGx tech, enabling larger, faster messages for remote industries, with broad hardware compatibility and global enterprise coverage. In …

Air France-KLM has partnered with Accenture and Google Cloud to build a ‘generative AI factory’ to scale AI across operations using cloud infrastructure. It follows a parallel arrangement in the …

We’re calling it. The private 5G race is properly on. A couple of recent flagship deals – Verizon at Thames Freeport on the Thames Estuary, Tampnet with Aker BP in …

According to Gartner, smart factories are one of the top 10 strategic technology trends for the manufacturing industry. To fully embrace this trend, manufacturing leaders must consider their connectivity infrastructure. …

Polish energy giant Orlen is partnering with Microsoft on central Europe’s largest AI rollout, spanning cybersecurity, operations, and workforce efficiency, anchored by a new AI centre for experimentation and training. …

Danone has launched an Industry 5.0 Academy to train 20,000 staff in AI and digital tech by 2026, driving global manufacturing transformation as part of its broader Renew Danone strategy …