The parallel narratives around cellular 5G and Industry 4.0 are about to collide. China has said it will build 30 brand new ‘smart factories’ by 2023, all of them threaded …

In 2021, increasing availability of 5G will provide the launching pad for manufacturing to truly evolve to Industry 4.0, the new industrial revolution that will push industries forward. Connected factories …

2021 will be the year industrial IoT gets ‘massive’, when companies decide, after the impact of Covid-19, to make change, and to accelerate their digital transformation. In technology terms, a …

The coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis has changed the way we work like no event or crisis before. What it has shown is that digitization of the industrial sector, and of factories …

Aerospace and defence company Saab has deployed a factory-wide private 5G network at a manufacturing plant in Sweden. The facility in Linköping, in the south of the country, produces ‘aerostructures’, …

Bosch has put live a private 5G network with Nokia at its factory in Stuttgart-Feuerbach, and confirmed another at its research campus in Renningen. The firm said it will “gradually” …

Australian satellite communications provider Speedcast International has signed a deal with Nokia to offer the Finnish vendor’s plug-and-play private LTE and 5G solution to remote industrial customers. Speedcast supplies satellite-based …

Arm has introduced a suite of new safety-critical computing solutions for autonomous systems in the automotive and industrial sectors. The UK-based firm said its new silicon design blueprints are designed …

France-based energy management and automation specialist Schneider Electric has deployed the first private indoor 5G network in the industrial sector in France. The firm has worked with mobile operator Orange …

Ten new manufacturing sites have joined the World Economic Forum’s ‘global lighthouse network’ of Industry 4.0 leaders. It takes the total number of smart factories in the network to 54. …