
Volkswagen recruits Nokia for private 5G network at flagship factory in Wolfsburg
It is a year late, but automotive giant Volkswagen has deployed a private 5G network at its main plant in Wolfsburg in Germany. Nokia has supplied the networking equipment for …

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 …

Bosch opens local Industry 4.0 academies, global Industry 4.0 apprenticeships
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 …

SIs in trouble, hyperscalers indifferent – the case for carrier-led private 5G
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘Software AG, StarHub and the blueprint for carrier-led industrial private 5G’, available here. Bernd Gross, chief technology officer at Software …

‘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 …

Qualcomm confirms first Release-16 industrial 5G modem for Industry 4.0
Qualcomm has announced its first “purpose-built” 5G modem for industrial IoT applications, scheduled for release next month (June 2021). The new modem-to-antenna solution is pitched at the manufacturing, energy, agriculture, …

LoRaWAN duo SenRa and Senet expand in India – and into Middle East, Asia, Africa
India-based LoRaWAN provider SenRa has expanded its network operation to 74 cities in India, and has claimed a rush of deals with the likes of Bosch for industrial IoT, Ripple …

Bosch trumps its own Industry 4.0 fantasies with (wait for it)… a smart factory floor
It sounded, at the time, like a sci-fi vision of the future of manufacturing: that with a hyper-connected 5G factory, the only fixed assets will be the floors, walls and …

Smartest factories post 93% jump in output during ‘unprecedented’ Covid disruption
The World Economic Forum has added 15 new ‘smart’ manufacturing sites to its ‘global lighthouse network’, and claimed production output among Industry 4.0 leaders spiralled upwards by 93 percent in …

European automotive firms, smart cities get behind industry-wide data sharing
German carrier Deutsche Telekom has issued updates on key projects around industry-wide data sharing in the automotive supply chain and smart cities sectors in Europe. It has also announced, via …