smart factory

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 …

In sum – what you need to know America’s smartest factory – Hyundai’s new $7.6 billion electric and hybrid vehicle plant, Metaplant America, claims a series of Industry 4.0 world-firsts, …

A something-and-nothing release from the home of Industrie 4.0, worth memorialising if only to remember that the whole metaverse concept is alive and well in the enterprise space, and to …

Swedish industrial machine maker Atlas Copco has reopened a UK facility as a smart factory and innovation centre with a private 5G network from country-mate Ericsson, and a showcase and …

Huawei carried out this project in Thailand in partnership with Midea, AIS and China Unicom Chinese vendor Huawei, together with appliance manufacturer Midea, Thai telco AIS and Chinese operator China …

The full connectivity of digital infrastructure and the intelligent platform are the twin engines for smart factories to accelerate the intelligent manufacturing upgrade, according to Summer Chen, Vice President and …

Telefónica and Siemens are to provide Spanish battery manufacturer Basquevolt with the “best technological and connectivity solutions” to launch a new “prototyping line” at its plant in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital …

Siemens has announced a new $150 million smart factory in Dallas-Fort Worth in the US to supply electrical equipment to US data centers and critical infrastructure. The new facility will …

In today’s data-driven world, a significant amount of data storage still happens on-premise. However, when organizations opt for cloud solutions, it is often through cloud subscriptions with hyperscalers like Microsoft …

Verizon has deployed a private 5G network at the 5,500 square-metre ‘smart factory’ at Wichita State University in Kansas, in the US. The showcase facility, dubbed Smart Factory @ Wichita, …

The “largest private industrial 5G network in Europe” has opened in Calais, in France, using 59 small cell antennas to cover a 50,000 square-metre production site belonging to Alcatel Submarine …

Want to know how to scale private 5G across manufacturing plants and manufacturing applications? Well, European aviation and aerospace manufacturer Airbus knows how. Of course, if you have followed the …

LG Uplus will provide cloud-based services using artificial intelligence tools under a subscription model to help small business customers reduce initial investment costs South Korea’s third largest operator, LG Uplus, …

Vodafone Germany has been busy with private networks for Industry 4.0. A new announcement, with Nokia, says the pair are testing high-accuracy indoor positioning (HAIP) services over a 5G ‘campus …

US-based food manufacturing giant Mars has rolled out digital twin technology, marrying IoT sensor outputs with AI analytics inputs in a edge/cloud dashboard, across its factories in the US, specifically …

Taiwanese telecoms operator Chunghwa Telecom has deployed a private 5G network for local electronics manufacturer Delta Electronics, in conjunction with state-owned telecommunications company National Telecom, formerly TOT PCL, and MVNO …

Swiss food-and-drink manufacturing conglomerate Nestlé has tapped Brazilian telecoms duo Claro and Embratel, both subsidiaries of Mexican group América Móvil, to build a private 5G network at a factory in …

ABB explained that its Bangalore facility manufactures, tests, and supplies ABB Smart Power’s complete range of low voltage power equipment   ABB India has recently expanded and upgraded its smart …

Singtel said it will implement its Paragon solution, an all-in-one platform for 5G networks, edge computing management and services orchestration   Singapore operator Singtel signed an agreement with Hyundai Motor …

US IoT distributor CalChip Connect (CCC) has selected Federated Wireless for private LTE and 5G, both for its own distribution centre in Pennsylvania, and as a distribution product for CalChip …

Another late entry from the MWC files, this time from a discussion with IBM; but another one, again, where the talk is somehow timeless, at least in a 2022/3 timeframe, …

Industrial automation and energy management provider Schneider Electric is to install NTT’s new private 5G solution at its flagship ‘smart factory’ production facility in Lexington, Kentucky, and progressively through the …

  French IT firm Atos recently launched its “Factory of the Future” project in Angers, France, the company said in a release. With this new factory, Atos said it aims …

  UiPath, a robotic process automation (RPA) software company, recently announced it has become a builder sponsor of The Smart Factory @ Wichita, a new Industry 4.0 immersive experience center …

Note, this article is continued from a previous entry, under the headline: ‘A “different beast” in the telco pack – often it’s not about 5G at all, says Orange’. For …