German companies Siemens and TRUMPF are partnering to integrate digital solutions and AI-ready technologies into smart factories, bridging IT and OT systems with open interfaces for enhanced efficiency, flexibility, and performance.
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Collaboration – Siemens is providing digital software and automation...
Hitachi Rail has deployed a private 5G network at its Hagerstown factory in Maryland, designed by GlobalLogic with Ericsson technology – showcasing Hitachi’s ‘One Hitachi’ digital strategy to design and deploy digital-change in-house.
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Hitachi model – Japanese firm’s group synergies...
Volkswagen will invest €1bn in AI by 2030 to transform vehicle development, production, and IT, targeting €4bn savings, 25% faster innovation cycles, digital sovereignty in Europe, and “AI everywhere” across its industrial value chain.
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Billion-dollar AI drive – VW targets...
Future Technologies is deploying a private 5G edge system from Nokia at Maher Terminals in the New York/Jersey maritime port complex. Separately, Nokia has unveiled ruggedized 5G tactical comms solutions for “battlefield digitalization”.
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Maritime 5G – for Maher Terminals at...
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 a range of Industry 4.0 partners.
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Next-gen networks – new...
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 constructions. Due to open in 2026, the site will drive oncology and inflammation research...
Industrial AI adoption is accelerating, says IFS, but enterprises face a critical execution gap: lacking skills, strategy, and trust, even as AI embeds deeply into operations, driving efficiency and profitability.
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Execution gap – enterprises are adopting AI faster than they...
Nearly 90% of industrial firms deploying private 4G/5G and edge report ROI within a year, with widespread AI and IoT adoption driving security, safety, and sustainability. Research firm GlobalData has polled 115 industrial enterprises for a Nokia report.
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Quick returns...
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.
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Mid-band spectrum – for enterprises to deploy private 4G/5G networks via...
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 – for industrial AI, digital twins, and safer offshore operations.
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Island...
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 Cloud are deploying in regional hubs.
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AI infrastructure – new...
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 adoption. Here are 23 of the best.
As is its way, analyst house SNS Telecom...
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.
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Tuck-in acquisition – the purchase of SparkMeter’s platforms will enhance...
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) – reflecting rapid digital transformation across sectors.
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Private 5G – spending...
There is a sense, increasingly, that all Industry 4.0 roads lead to here; that all the new remote-worker and production-line applications that private 5G has brought into view in recent times will gain absolute focus with generative AI – to the point that macro...
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 of closed and open LLMs on its cloud environment.
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Model...
Leading contract manufacturer, Dixon Technologies, has picked Tech Mahindra to deliver an AI-powered Industry 4.0 transformation across 24 manufacturing plants and six R&D centres in India.
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Prime partner – Tech Mahindra to lead digital change across 24 production plants in...
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.
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AI data centre – new AI data centre at Mayo...
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 banking sector with NatWest Group and AWS. Accenture has also announced a deal to...
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 the North Sea – show this market is delivering. Real deals. Real scale. After...
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.
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Microsoft collaboration – Orlen’s work with the US cloud giant covers...
Logistics 4.0 is revolutionizing global supply chains by connecting operations, accelerating process automation, empowering the mobile workforce, and securing on-site data. Private 4G/5G keeps busy warehouses and distribution centers productive, competitive, and resilient. Join Ericsson and Levata on August 7th as they reveal insights from distribution-center executives...
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 for smarter operations.
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AI operations – new Danone AI academy...
BT’s 2024/25 results show fibre gains amid slumping enterprise and consumer revenues. The UK telco is shrinking its international footprint, refocusing on domestic enterprise growth, and eyeing managed service expansion – which is a good model for most telcos, reckons Omdia.
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