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Huawei, Haier, China Mobile unveil 5G solutions for smart manufacturing

  Haier, China’s largest consumer electronics and home appliance producer, collaborated with Huawei and China mobile to apply innovative manufacturing solutions combining 5G and mobile edge computing in its smart factories. Developed at a joint-innovation base established in February, the solutions integrate 5G edge computing with...

Wired vs. wireless factories: Why invest in 5G manufacturing?

To further explore the intersection of 5G and manufacturing, register for the 5G Manufacturing Forum.  Differences between wired and wireless connectivity at factory floors When it comes to deploying connectivity on the factory floor, choosing whether to deploy wired or wireless connectivity chiefly depends on the...

Airtel launches initiative to demonstrate enterprise uses cases using 5G

Indian operator Bharti Airtel has rolled out a business initiative to demonstrate a wide range of enterprise grade use cases using 5G networks, the telco said in a release. As part of the #5GforBusiness initiative, Airtel is joining forces with Accenture, AWS, Cisco, Ericsson, Google...

Bosch and Capgemini strike deal on Industry 4.0 software and services

Bosch and Capgemini have struck a deal to develop Industry 4.0 software and services to help with the digitization and sustainability of industrial production plants, and to drive sales of both. The pair will collaborate around Bosch’s Nexeed system for industrial software, offered by...

Korea’s LG Uplus aims to boost revenues from smart factory solutions

    Korean telecommunications operator LG Uplus said it aims to increase sales from its smart factory solutions business by sevenfold within the next five years, Korean news agency Yonhap reported. LG Uplus has been developing industrial solutions that use its 4G and 5G networks to automate...

How can 5G enable industrial IoT manufacturing implementations?

5G networks offers manufacturers the possibility to take advantage of technologies such as automation, AI, AR for troubleshooting, and IoT.

5G manufacturing use case spotlight: Troubleshooting using a digital twin

One of the ways digital twinning of production facilities is expected to help manufacturers is in the area of maintenance and repair

5G manufacturing use case spotlight: Industrial automation

Industrial automation uses control systems to manage repetitive tasks, often with IoT sensors, AI vision cameras and autonomous robots

What’s the role of edge computing in 5G manufacturing?

Edge computing offers several benefits for 5G manufacturing, such as lower latency, increased cybersecurity and a better management of data

What is lean manufacturing and how can 5G help?

Lean manufacturing is based on the concept of continuous improvements on product and process while eliminating redundant activities

Lockheed Martin opens new smart manufacturing facility in California

US aerospace and weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin has opened a new 215,000 square-foot smart manufacturing facility at its Skunk Works campus and headquarters in Palmdale, in California. It called the new production setup “intelligent” and “flexible”, and said it puts it in position to...

What is 5G manufacturing and what does it mean for productivity?

To further explore the intersection of 5G and manufacturing, register for the 5G Manufacturing Forum. Will 5G manufacturing power the Fourth Industrial Revolution? The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) will usher in smart factories. In these futuristic factories, connected devices will be able sense their environments and...

Top 5 5G manufacturing use cases

To further explore the intersection of 5G and manufacturing, register for the 5G Manufacturing Forum.  There is no doubt that the emergence of 5G technology will have a great impact  in the way Industry 4.0 manufacturers, or “smart factories,” produce and distribute goods. The key...

Celona brings eSIM support for private 5G, signs with Qualcomm’s smart-city crew

California-based startup Celona has announced support for software-based embedded SIM (eSIM) technology to simplify device provisioning for private LTE and 5G networks. The firm has also announced it has joined Qualcomm’s smart cities accelerator ecosystem as an approved supplier of cloud-based private network management. Celona...

Fujitsu deploys industrial IoT platform for Ricoh chemical plant in Japan

Japanese imaging and electronics firm Ricoh Company has recruited country-mate Fujitsu to accelerate its IoT sensor and data usage at process manufacturing facilities in Japan, starting at a chemical plant in the city of Numazu, in the middle of the country. Fujitsu is to...

Manufacturer Arçelik recruits Nokia, Türk Telekom for Turkey’s first private 5G network

Household appliances and electronics manufacturer Arçelik Global, owners of the Beko and Grundig brands, is to deploy the first private celluar network in Turkey, as an LTE-based setup with a 5G-upgrade option. It has engaged with Nokia and Türk Telekom on the project to...

‘Fully connected, self-optimizing’ – Bosch opens €1bn smart factory in Dresden

Bosch has opened a new smart factory for silicon wafer production in Dresden, capital of the eastern German state of Saxony. The firm has invested around €1 billion in the new plant, unveiled today (June 7) and set to start production next month. It...

Suntory recruits Hitachi to develop ‘next-gen factory model’ at water plant in Japan

Suntory Beverage & Food, the soft drinks division of Japanese drinks company Suntory, has recruited Hitachi to deploy its Lumada-branded IoT platform and IoT analytics applications at its newly opened water plant in Omachi, in the Nagano Prefecture in Japan. Separately, HItachi has announced...

Qualcomm’s John Smee on 5G R&D: ‘If you build it, they will come’

Dr. John Smee, Qualcomm’s VP of engineering, says that one of the things that differentiates Qualcomm from other tech companies is its “if you build it, they will come” research mentality: Trying to envision and build technologies that will support what future applications could...

Fujitsu launches private 5G network at Oyama smart factory

  Japanese company Fujitsu announced the start of of operations of a private 5G network at its Oyama plant in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. In a release, Fujitsu said that the network consists of a 4.7 GHz band SA and a 28 GHz extended frequency band NSA...

‘Factories will learn from farms’ – how John Deere is putting Industry 4.0 on wheels

Farming is just outdoor manufacturing, says John Deere; the whole concept of ‘smart manufacturing’ is only novel to cloistered production, taking place indoors, out of the rain. Farmers have been at it for decades, already: connecting machines, processing data, bringing intelligence into the field....

‘5G helped us through Covid’ – Lufthansa Technik on private 5G with Nokia, Vodafone

Categorically, it seems, private 5G has helped some businesses stay on track during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic over the last 12 months. That was the message last week from Lufthansa Technik, the aircraft services division of German airline Lufthansa, speaking at a private LTE...

Software AG on 2021: The year the smart factory gets real – and four reasons why

The bar for digitally enabled manufacturing services keeps rising and will be boosted by the investments made during 2020. While companies race to innovate, it is important to remember that in 2021, investing in resilience-building and data-driven technology that will arm an organization for...

Airspan CBRS network goes live at Foxconn’s Wisconsin factory

As part of a larger plan to build a smart factory, Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII) in Wisconsin worked with Airspan Networks to deploy a CBRS network over which all autonomous operations across the manufacturing campus will be managed. After revealing its smart factory plans in...