
Industry to drive URLLC-era 5G market to $23bn by 2030 – with boom for operators
It is a little early, some way ahead of the standardisation schedule, but the first (?) market-sizing forecast is in for Release-17 era ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), pegged as the …

ABB co-develops new digital twin solution for energy and process industries
Swiss engineering conglomerate ABB and French simulation company CORYS have signed a deal to “advance digital twin modeling and simulation technology” across the energy and process industries. CORYS supplies transportation, …

Australian rail firm ARTC gets on track for digital change with Hitachi-ABB
Australia is both the flattest continent on earth and, with the exception of Antarctica, the driest. You can travel 2,000-odd miles across its plains, between Sydney and Perth, without seeing …

Bosch and Ericsson hone 5G for Industry 4.0, rollout private 5G in Germany
Bosch has started to build a private industrial 5G network at its semiconductor factory in Reutlingen, in Baden-Württemberg in Germany, to test for Industry 4.0 compatibility and network optimisation, along …

ABB intros IT-OT analytics bundle to release 80% of trapped Industry 4.0 data
Swiss engineering conglomerate ABB has released an analytics software and services suite to combine data from information and operation technology (IT and OT). The new ABB Ability Genix product “collects, …

Ericsson helps Atlas Copco Airpower to get ready for smart manufacturing
Atlas Copco Airpower, a manufacturer of compressors, vacuum solutions, generators, pumps, power tools, and assembly systems is collaborating with Ericsson and Orange Belgium to ensure intelligent manufacturing with 4G …

Sprint announces availability of NB-IoT on its IoT platform
Sprint has announced the availability of narrowband IoT on its Curiosity IoT platform, as a complement to the nationwide Cat-M rollout. The company said that NB-IoT technology further expands low-power …

ABB to enable autonomous tug operations at the Port of Singapore
ABB has inked a contract with Singaporean shipyard Keppel Offshore & Marine to enable autonomous tug operation in 2020, the company said in a release. Under the terms of the …

ABB and Microsoft set up cybersecurity alliance to tackle threats to OT systems
A new global alliance has been established by ABB and Microsoft, alongside a cross-section of industrial technologists, to tackle cybersecurity threats to operational technology (OT), as it is increasingly connected …

ABB and HPE join on industrial IoT networking for connected maintenance
ABB and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have struck a deal on wireless connectivity for large industrial customers, where ABB sensors attached to industrial equipment are connected to the cloud via …