INDUSTRY 4.0: Ericsson, TIM, Comau AND Sant’Anna SCHOOL DEVELOP 5g-ENABLED SMART FACTORY, AI PLATFORM FOR machine learning, AND ROBOTICS APPLICATIONS
To enable “the factory of the future”, companies will need cloud-based platforms, 5G networks, and collaborative robots. As the industry need to renew itself for the digital age, Ericsson, TIM, Comau and Sant’Anna School show their jointly developed “cloud robotics” at the Mobile World Congress 2018 under the “5G for Italy” program.
The Mobile World Congress, is organized annually for the mobile telecoms industry. This year in Barcelona, Ericsson, TIM, Comau and Sant’Anna School synthesized their vision for future factories and highlighted the major developments that will shape Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing. Enabling communications technologies, mainly 5G, Ericsson, TIM and Comau demonstrated how 5G technologies are important in industry areas, especially in the smart factories, through the digitization of the manufacturing process and plants.
Ericsson, TIM, Comau and Sant’Anna School have strengthened their “5G for Italy” partnership in 5G standardization and 5G networks, and developed 5G network-enabled use cases for industries. Cloud computing and analytic techniques will enable the manufacturing sector to self-configure self- adjust, and self-optimize, to ensure industries continue to be an economic engine. The advances in technologies such as cloud-based solutions, IoT platforms and machine learning will provide all manufacturers the ability to solve problems in near-real time and even the ability to predict them. The emergence of human-machine interaction and the improvement in transferring digital data show that the scope of new technologies applications in smart factories is influencing the supply chain scenarios, redesigning business processes and leading to greater flexibility, and cost effectiveness.
Federico Rigoni, CEO of Ericsson – Italy, said: “As a leader in 5G business cases, network slicing, big data analytics, machine learning and automation, Ericsson aims to support industries in making smart manufacturing an efficient and profitable reality. The combination of robotics and 5G networks will provide additional opportunities for TIM, Comau and Sant’Anna School partnership”.
Mario Di Mauro, Chief Strategy Officer at TIM, said: “Today, industry is facing a rapid change driven by ICT technologies. Our strategy is to develop IoT Connectivity and IoT ecosystem solutions in Italian enterprises, to leverage machines for productivity gain and work to create a prioritized approach for transformation. Enabling all companies to close technology gaps, we will improve efficiency (reducing the cost per gigabyte) and enhance customer experience by providing tailored products”.
Mauro Fenzi, CEO of Comau, said: “Companies have accelerated the digitization of their business processes to meet the customer expectations. 5G technologies allow reinventing the entire process, developing automated decision making, and dealing with performance tracking, and customer satisfaction. This will require a considerable focus on multilevel communication, information infrastructure and digital services: 5G-inspired paradigms, design and implementation of green 5G networks (such as integrated RFIDs and Sensor Networks, 5G enabling technologies for the G-WNs, Cloud computing in G-WNs)”.
