
Fujitsu deploys industrial IoT platform for Ricoh chemical plant in Japan
Japanese imaging and electronics firm Ricoh Company has recruited country-mate Fujitsu to accelerate its IoT sensor and data usage at process manufacturing facilities in Japan, starting at a chemical plant …

Manufacturer Arçelik recruits Nokia, Türk Telekom for Turkey’s first private 5G network
Household appliances and electronics manufacturer Arçelik Global, owners of the Beko and Grundig brands, is to deploy the first private celluar network in Turkey, as an LTE-based setup with a …

‘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 …

Suntory recruits Hitachi to develop ‘next-gen factory model’ at water plant in Japan
Suntory Beverage & Food, the soft drinks division of Japanese drinks company Suntory, has recruited Hitachi to deploy its Lumada-branded IoT platform and IoT analytics applications at its newly opened …

Fujitsu launches private 5G network at Oyama smart factory
Japanese company Fujitsu announced the start of of operations of a private 5G network at its Oyama plant in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. In a release, Fujitsu said that the …

‘Factories will learn from farms’ – how John Deere is putting Industry 4.0 on wheels
Farming is just outdoor manufacturing, says John Deere; the whole concept of ‘smart manufacturing’ is only novel to cloistered production, taking place indoors, out of the rain. Farmers have been …

‘5G helped us through Covid’ – Lufthansa Technik on private 5G with Nokia, Vodafone
Categorically, it seems, private 5G has helped some businesses stay on track during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic over the last 12 months. That was the message last week from Lufthansa …

Software AG on 2021: The year the smart factory gets real – and four reasons why
The bar for digitally enabled manufacturing services keeps rising and will be boosted by the investments made during 2020. While companies race to innovate, it is important to remember that …

Airspan CBRS network goes live at Foxconn’s Wisconsin factory
As part of a larger plan to build a smart factory, Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII) in Wisconsin worked with Airspan Networks to deploy a CBRS network over which all autonomous …

Verizon partners with Deloitte on 5G, edge computing
Verizon, Deloitte partnerships targets manufacturing and retail verticals Verizon Business is teaming with Deloitte to carry out joint innovation activities in the 5G and mobile edge computing (MEC) fields. The …