smart factory

Mobile phone trends have followed a familiar pattern for years: Consumers become accustomed to a new feature, usually starting with their personal lives. Then they begin adopting the behavior in …

Stephen Mellor picks up where he left off, and where we left him: the challenge with industrial IoT to gain widespread adoption is as much to do with interpretation as …

Finnish telecoms company Elisa is supporting the digital upgrade of around 100 factories owned by US consumer goods company Procter & Gamble, following an initial rollout of IoT monitoring and …

Verizon has installed millimeter wave 5G at Corning’s fibre optic cable factory in Hickory, North Carolina. The pair will build a “factory of the future” to take “massive steps forward …

  ZTE and China Telecom assisted Australian firm Bluetron in commissioning what they claim is China’s first 5G Standalone site, which put 5G slicing, edge computing and smart manufacturing into …

Digital transformation, set in motion by industrial IoT, is an abstract exercise. It is not an off-the-shelf kind of a sale. It requires all parties to collaborate to affect change …

Factories are bringing intelligence to the production line in a number of ways. Most are focused on integration between machines on the factory floor and leveraging sensor data for actionable …

Deutsche Telekom has added new partners for its 5G-based smart factory ecosystem, the German telco said in a statement. The new partners are EK Automation, Konica Minolta and Endress+Hauser. “Our …

The pursuit of cheaper, faster, and more varied production is intensifying. Factories are bustling with innovation experiments, as industrialists are availed of ever-more sophisticated digital tools. But the manufacturing sector …

The 5G smart factory will be powered by solutions developed specifically for the industrial space Ericsson announced yesterday that its first 5G smart factory in the U.S. will be located …

Ericsson has completed a SEK 500 million ($52 million) overhaul of its Nanjing factory in China, where it produces LTE (4G) and 5G gear, to create what it claims to …

In the end, it comes down to customer satisfaction – which, in the end, comes down to money. However you spin it, smarter industrial operations make better products, more efficiently, …

Ericsson is to build a fully-automated smart factory in the US, opening from 2020, to build its 5G radios and accelerate 5G rollout in the country. The factory will use …

Korean telecommunications firm KT announced plans to launch an advanced smart factory solution based on its 5G network in the third quarter of the year, Korean press reported. The Asian …

The Swedish vendor said this agreement will enable Industrial IoT and artificial intelligence technologies in the future Ericsson and ABB, a Swiss-Swedish company focused on digital industries, have strengthened their …

The two companies aim to pilot the initial smart factory solutions next month Canadian firm Kontrol Energy and Toyota Tsusho Canada Inc. (TTCI) have signed an agreement to implement smart factory …

  Companies already testing 5G in industrial environments are Worcester Bosch and Yamazaki Mazak   The U.K.’s first live 5G factory trials have been launched at the Worcestershire 5G Testbed, …

  The Swedish company acquired Etalon, a German provider of equipment calibration solutions   Swedish digital solutions company Hexagon has boosted its smart factory capabilities via the acquisition of Etalon, …

The Korean government launched a 5G smart factory alliance with 19 companies and organizations The South Korean government announced plans to work with information and communication technology companies to apply …

  Earlier this month, the Italian telco and Nokia activated the first 5G site in San Marino Italian telecom group TIM and Robopac have signed an agreement to develop the …

  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 …

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 …

Seoul-based electronics giants LG Electronics is to showcase a “human-centric” wearable robot next week at IFA 2018 in Berlin. The wearable robot will connect into a “smart working network”, said …