BROWSING: smart factory

Stephen Mellor picks up where he left off, and where we left him: the challenge with industrial IoT to gain widespread adoption is as much to do with interpretation as with deployment. Different industrial disciplines have different demands, even if they sometimes appear the...

Finnish telecoms company Elisa is supporting the digital upgrade of around 100 factories owned by US consumer goods company Procter & Gamble, following an initial rollout of IoT monitoring and insights at 10 sites. The partnership, which has been openly discussed by Elisa on...

Verizon has installed millimeter wave 5G at Corning’s fibre optic cable factory in Hickory, North Carolina. The pair will build a “factory of the future” to take “massive steps forward in robotics and automation”. At the same time, Verizon has announced it has added Dallas,...

  ZTE and China Telecom assisted Australian firm Bluetron in commissioning what they claim is China's first 5G Standalone site, which put 5G slicing, edge computing and smart manufacturing into trial to help Bluetron build a new 5G smart factory. In order to meet data requirements...

Digital transformation, set in motion by industrial IoT, is an abstract exercise. It is not an off-the-shelf kind of a sale. It requires all parties to collaborate to affect change and reinvention, capturing business culture and business practice. Importantly, it also needs to consider...

Factories are bringing intelligence to the production line in a number of ways. Most are focused on integration between machines on the factory floor and leveraging sensor data for actionable insights.  Texas-based software firm Epicor identifies certain examples: shop-floor scorecard systems for reviewing performance, touchscreen...

Deutsche Telekom has added new partners for its 5G-based smart factory ecosystem, the German telco said in a statement. The new partners are EK Automation, Konica Minolta and Endress+Hauser. "Our development of a complete 5G ecosystem for industry will accelerate the pace of digitization in industry....

The pursuit of cheaper, faster, and more varied production is intensifying. Factories are bustling with innovation experiments, as industrialists are availed of ever-more sophisticated digital tools. But the manufacturing sector is competitive, and its grab for innovation, to raise its members above their rivals, is...

The 5G smart factory will be powered by solutions developed specifically for the industrial space Ericsson announced yesterday that its first 5G smart factory in the U.S. will be located in Lewisville, Texas, not too far from its North American headquarters in Plano, Texas. The...

Ericsson has completed a SEK 500 million ($52 million) overhaul of its Nanjing factory in China, where it produces LTE (4G) and 5G gear, to create what it claims to be “among the most advanced” manufacturing facilities in the world. The new factory upgrade, covering...

In the end, it comes down to customer satisfaction – which, in the end, comes down to money. However you spin it, smarter industrial operations make better products, more efficiently, which raise customer loyalty, which makes business. The theory is not new. The method,...

Ericsson is to build a fully-automated smart factory in the US, opening from 2020, to build its 5G radios and accelerate 5G rollout in the country. The factory will use industrial 5G for connecting machines and sensors to edge compute and cloud analytics programmes,...

Korean telecommunications firm KT announced plans to launch an advanced smart factory solution based on its 5G network in the third quarter of the year, Korean press reported. The Asian carrier said the main aim of the initiative is to raise productivity at local factories. The smart...

The Swedish vendor said this agreement will enable Industrial IoT and artificial intelligence technologies in the future Ericsson and ABB, a Swiss-Swedish company focused on digital industries, have strengthened their collaboration to accelerate the industrial ecosystem for flexible wireless automation, the vendor said in a...

The two companies aim to pilot the initial smart factory solutions next month Canadian firm Kontrol Energy and Toyota Tsusho Canada Inc. (TTCI) have signed an agreement to implement smart factory technology solutions. Under the deal, the new smart factory solutions will combine Kontrol's Internet of Things...

  Companies already testing 5G in industrial environments are Worcester Bosch and Yamazaki Mazak   The U.K.’s first live 5G factory trials have been launched at the Worcestershire 5G Testbed, according to the U.K.-government-backed Worcestershire 5G Consortium. The smart factory trials allow manufacturers to test the potential of...

  The Swedish company acquired Etalon, a German provider of equipment calibration solutions   Swedish digital solutions company Hexagon has boosted its smart factory capabilities via the acquisition of Etalon, which provides equipment calibration solutions. Etalon’s solutions continuously monitor and initiate compensation of machine tools, measuring machines, robots...

The Korean government launched a 5G smart factory alliance with 19 companies and organizations The South Korean government announced plans to work with information and communication technology companies to apply 5G technologies in advanced production lines to create smart factories, Korean news agency Yonhap reports. The...

  Earlier this month, the Italian telco and Nokia activated the first 5G site in San Marino Italian telecom group TIM and Robopac have signed an agreement to develop the first 5G smart factory in San Marino, a 24-square-mile micro-state surrounded by Italy. Robopac is a specialist...

  Through the new facility, Hitachi aims to foster the adoption of smart factory technology in Asia   Japanese firm Hitachi has opened a digital services hub in Thailand with the aim of helping Asian companies to cut costs through the implementation of smart factory technology, Japanese...

How smart is your factory? Industry 4.0 and the digital transformation process will revolutionize the future of manufacturing. By making decisions based on the meaningful use of real-time data collection from various machines, the manufacturing process can be more efficient, suffer less downtime and...

Nokia's new €500 million loan from the European Investment Bank for 5G research and developnent will boost the region's drive for industrial and economic transformation, as US and Asian markets push ahead. Nokia told Enterprise IoT Insights 5G will shift the European economy up a...

Seoul-based electronics giants LG Electronics is to showcase a “human-centric” wearable robot next week at IFA 2018 in Berlin. The wearable robot will connect into a “smart working network”, said LG, to deliver information and tools required for manufacturing, logistics and distribution. LG took a...

After suburban lifestyles being the norm for generations of Americans, the pendulum is beginning to swing back towards urbanism: the United Nations says 54% of the world’s population lives in urban areas today, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66% by 2050....