UK’s £9m 5G manufacturing project is the largest
10 March 2020 The UK government has announced its biggest investment in using 5G for manufacturing to date – a £9m ($11.7m) project that will install a private… Read More
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10 March 2020 
Davos 5G demo synchronises robots 1.5km apart
5 March 2020 At the recent World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, ABB, Ericsson, and the Swiss telecoms company Swisscom, demonstrated real-time 5G communications being used to… Read More
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3 January 2020
‘First private 5G industrial network’ is set up in Germany
3 January 2020 Siemens and the communications specialist Qualcomm Technologies have implemented what they say is the first private 5G wireless standalone network in a real industrial environment… Read More
UK manufacturers are among the keenest to adopt 5G
13 June 2019 UK manufacturers are among the keenest to adopt 5G technologies, according to a survey of 800 industrial company executives and 150 telecoms executives in 12… Read More
Virtual reality demo gives remote control of a robot via 5G
12 June 2019 Visitors to Rittal’s stand at the 2019 Hannover Fair could take part in a demonstration in which they used virtual reality (VR) glasses and two VR… Read More
First trial of 5G communications in a UK factory goes live
25 February 2019 Trials of the first live installation of 5G technologies in a UK factory have begun at Worcester Bosch’s boiler production plant in Worcester. The company… Read More
Group will drive the ‘disruptive’ use of 5G in industry
8 May 2018 The German electrotechnical trade body ZVEI has set up a working group of companies and organisations to help establish the use of 5G in industrial… Read More
5G demo heralds ‘wireless’ PLCs of the future
8 May 2018 At the recent Hannover Fair, the Chinese electronics giant Huawei and Beckhoff Automation demonstrated a 5G technology that could lead to the use of wireless… Read More
Festo and Huawei collaborate on smart 5G manufacturing
11 September 2017 The Chinese telecommunications and electronics giant Huawei has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the German pneumatics and automation supplier Festo to explore the use… Read More
Project will use 5G phone technologies to enhance production
7 March 2016 Three Swedish organisations – SKF, Ericsson and Chalmers University – have embarked on a two-year, government-backed project that will combine next-generation (5G) mobile communications with… Read More
