BROWSING: industry 4.0

Dell Technologies has expanded its edge partner ecosystem with Hyundai AutoEver, a factory IT/OT integration tool from car maker Hyundai, and Intel’s OpenVINO developer toolbox, commonly used for edge AI applications. The latter is now part of its NativeEdge Blueprint catalogue of edge design...

There will be 108 million IoT connections on private LTE (4G) and 5G networks in the manufacturing sector in 2030, according to a new forecast from ABI Research. Manufacturing will be the biggest market for private 5G-IoT, it said. In second, the transportation industry...

There’s something funny about a captain of industry (Industrie 4.0) scratching his head when his boiler breaks down at his French summer house. But this was the tale that Cedrik Neike, chief executive at Siemens Digital Industries, told Hannover Messe on Monday (April 22)...

The mood in the 5G Arena at Hannover Messe is muted, same as last year. All the buzz and excitement about private / industrial 5G at MWC, which seemed almost to bubble-over in the tight-knit halls of the Fira de Barcelona as the late...

Hannover Messe, Germany: Nokia has introduced a new ‘micro-edge’ compute solution to process industrial AI/ML workloads on or adjacent to IoT sensor devices attached to private LTE/5G networks, and also to enterprise Wi-Fi networks. At the same time, it has introduced a new video...

Note, this article is a continuation of a previous post, which can be found here. Funny thing about telecoms, and telcos specifically, so often derided in the Industry 4.0 market for not ‘getting’ enterprise, is that they have listened and changed, arguably, and are selling...

Analysys Mason predicts a surge in private 5G networks from just 4,000 in 2022, to 60,000 by 2028, driven by the demand for higher bandwidth in applications like VR, AI and security. However, as with any endeavour aiming for rapid progress, the journey often encounters...

New numbers, just in (further discussion here); analyst group Dell’Oro Group says private 4G/5G RAN revenues jumped around 40 percent in 2023, compared to 2022, with Nokia, Ericsson, and Huawei leading global sales during “this initial phase” – and Nokia, Ericsson, and Samsung dominating...

Polymer manufacturer REHAU Industries, which makes plastic seals and componentry for doors and windows, is set to roll-out an industrial AI inspection tool from Fujitsu on its production lines in Germany following successful field trials. The new AI solution, based on unspecified “smart technologies”,...

Dell Technologies, Microsoft and Vodafone Business are combining private 5G and hybrid cloud at the on-premise edge in managed service offering The needs of modern enterprises are becoming increasingly complex, increasingly quickly. The digital transformation imperative clearly involves leveraging hybrid cloud architectures extended all the...

Or three lies it has told, and is being forced to take back.  Ask Future Technologies – which appears, directly or indirectly, to have its fingerprints across every-other big private 5G deployment in the US – about the hype in the market, and it will...

You can have the best 5G network in the world, and make it into the worst; or, at least, you can render it as completely ordinary without much effort, and maybe totally useless. This is the warning from Nazim Choudhury, director of market development...

Siemens said the acquisition is a 'strategic addition' to its Xcelerator portfolio Siemens announced its intent to acquire ebm-papst’s industrial drive technology (IDT) business, which includes intelligent, integrated, network-connected mechatronic systems, as well as motion control systems used in free-range driverless transport systems. In a press...

With the Microsoft Azure HCI Stack, Dell and Orange make cloud, connectivity and cybersecurity easy to consume, letting enterprises focus on doing what they do best The vision of Industry 4.0 is important and clear. It’s about making industries smarter—using technology to become more operationally...

Following on from the article last week, about “ecosystem linkage” in the private 5G market, Stephen Douglas, head of market strategy at Spirent, presents five key trends with cellular in the broad enterprise space. Note, he lists a bunch of others in conversation, as...

Service provider Bahrain Telecommunication Company (Batelco) has signed a deal with Nokia to sell the Finnish vendor’s various private LTE and 5G systems, plus edge componentry and industrial devices, to public agencies and private enterprises in the Kingdom of Bahrain, in West Asia. The...

Want to know what’s happening, and also what’s about to happen, in telecoms? You could do much worse, and also not much better, than to ask a well-placed test and measurement firm, running the rule over all the latest telecoms technologies from all the...

Philadelphia-based managed private cellular provider Velaspan is targeting enterprises in global markets with Nokia’s private 4G/5G solution. It is the one of the first managed service providers to be authorised by the Finnish vendor as an enterprise solution partner, it said. Velaspan, founded in...

Chicago-based carrier UScellular, the fourth biggest operator in the US, has installed a private 5G network at a new Industry 4.0 customer lab in Ohio belonging to Rockwell Automation. Their focus is to integrate, explore, and expand operational technology (OT) use cases on incoming...

What have we here? As we navigate the one-way system at the far end of hall three at MWC last month, and amble up the stairs into a serious-sized meeting room to meet with Andrew Border, in charge of product management for telco solutions...

Nokia is preparing an ultra-compact version of its private cellular network solution to pitch to the small-and-medium sized enterprise (SME) market, particularly as it aligns with its focus on selling edge-based network-and-compute solutions to Industry 4.0 sectors. Speaking with RCR Wireless at Mobile World...

Network modernization is changing what’s technologically possible for companies around the world. Through the increased speed, agility and reliability of private LTE/5G wireless networks, industries from manufacturing to mining are transforming their operations and driving innovation at a rapid pace. This growing reliance on digital...

This article, recounting an interview with Accenture’s ‘cloud-first’ commander Jefferson Wang at MWC at the end of last month, might be taken as a companion piece, of sorts, with last week’s replay of an MWC meeting with Jennifer Artley (see here and here), in...

IoT is hard, man. Even talking about it, in any proper detail, is hard. Except if you’re talking with Ray Ozzie – over a breakfast croissant at MWC in Barcelona last month. Ozzie, the avuncular former tech chief at Microsoft, who steered the US...