Siemens finally intros ‘industrial 5G’ router, flagging public and private 5G integration
Siemens has released its first ‘industrial 5G’ router, the Scalance MUM856-1, announced at the end of 2020, showcased at Hannover Messe in March, and trailed in these pages all through …
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, …
IT/OT ‘heavyweights’ Microsoft and Siemens join Open Industry 4.0 Alliance
Microsoft and Siemens have signed up to the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance, a two-year old consortium of “European” industrial companies geared to drive cross-vendor interoperability for factories and warehouses. They …
Siemens integrates Google’s cloud and analytics into factory automaton suite
Siemens is to integrate Google’s cloud and analytics technologies with its factory automation portfolio. The pair said their offer will help manufacturing companies to move away from fragmented legacy software, …
Zeetta Networks releases new software for private LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi slicing and splicing
The new version of the Zeetta Networks platform, which provides a dashboard for managing multiple private enterprise networks, as a “single pane of glass”, has already been tested as well …
Siemens to bundle radio, core, devices into full 5G system for ‘blue collar’ Industry 4.0
Siemens has said it will provide an entire industrial 5G ‘system’ for private cellular networks in industry, covering the radio access network, core network, and compatible end-devices. It said industrial …
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 …
Seeq teams up on industrial IoT for utilities, oil and gas, manufacturing in Asia Pacific
Seattle-based industrial analytics company Seeq, a star of industrial IoT on the venture capital scene, is targeting the power and utilities, oil and gas, semiconductor, chemical, and process manufacturing industries, …
Deutsche Telekom to build ‘a million square metres’ of private 5G at Hanover Fairground
Trade fair operator Deutsche Messe has secured a private 5G licence from German network agency BNetzA for the Hanover fairground in Germany, home to Germany’s flagship Industrie 4.0 event. It …
