Smart Factory

    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 …

Verizon said 5G could help improve visibility in supply chains and prevent inventory shrink as well as provide more accurate product location

Finnish industrial networking specialist Edzcom is working with France-based communications software provider Streamwide to bring higher-grade security to mission critical private LTE and 5G networks. It said the partnership will …

Microsoft has joined the board of the LoRa Alliance, the marketing and development body for the LoRaWAN  low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) standard. Microsoft said LoRaWAN was a “critical connectivity fabric” …

Nokia has signed a deal with the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) to leverage industrial 5G, and other technologies, to drive the Industry 4.0 movement on the continent, as well as …

Spain-based Telefónica, as we have heard, is to establish regional network operations centres (NOCs) in Spain, Brazil, the UK, and Germany in order to manage private 5G networks on behalf …

Vodafone has urged the UK government to write targets and incentives for 5G and IoT adoption into its forthcoming net-zero strategy blueprints, due to be published later this year. The …

The story of 5G in manufacturing is not new. In fact, it has been written and discussed many times, as enterprises first heard about the groundbreaking enhancements that 5G can …

According to tech research firm ARC Advisory Group, 5G will play a key role in enabling the full potential of IIoT in the manufacturing field

AR remote assistance is used in many industries and offers opportunities for different actors to collaborate in real-time for solving problems

Siemens-owned Mendix has announced “massive enhancements” to its low-code software development platform to enable IoT ‘makers’ to assemble and monetise new digital products. It has declared prescriptive software-as-a-service applications a …

Through the end of last month and the start of last week, an assortment of tech providers, all with something to sell, descended on São Paulo to proclaim the imminent …

Note, this article is taken from a longer editorial report on private 5G enterprise NOCs; to access the report, click here, or on the image below. For the attendant webinar …

Microsoft and Nokia have partnered with the South Australian Government to combine ‘space technology’ and terrestrial 5G in service of local industry, including as the basis for digital change in …

Finnish telco Elisa has acquired a majority stake in Belgium-based industrial health and safety software provider TenForce, as part of the continuing expansion of its smart factory business. While continuing …

Orange Business Services, the global enterprise division of France-based operator Orange, has struck a deal with German industrial giant Siemens in France to combine on industrial IoT, private 5G networks, …

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

Non-Standalone 5G deployment at U.S. facilities will form template for expansion to global John Deere manufacturing facilities DENVER–Representatives from John Deere, a global manufacturer of agricultural machinery headquartered in Moline, …

Ultra narrowband IoT network provider Sigfox is working with Google to build a new range of IoT devices that can leverage local artificial intelligence (AI) analytics at the ‘edge’, in …

If the main event – the big report from which this article is taken – makes the case for operator-led management of private industrial 5G networks, with a primary investigation …

TIM has struck a deal via its IoT solutions division Olivetti with engineering firm SECO to produce IoT solutions for Italian enterprises – worth €50m to SECO and €225m to TIM over the next three years.

Wirepas has received an additional €10 million cash injection from Estonia-based early-stage venture capital firm Karma and Finnish state-owned investment firm Tesi to accelerate development of its new mesh-based non-cellular …

Bosch has opened two new Industry 4.0 academy venues in Germany, and is offering Industry 4.0 apprenticeships and qualifications to staff at 240 Bosch plants worldwide, as well as to …

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

Did you see the writeup last week (or the week before?), that the window of opportunity for telcos to reinvent themselves with private 5G, as more than just dinosaur utility …