Manufacturing Magazine September 2020 | Page 33

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Ericsson , commented : “ The combination of cellular IoT and Industry 4.0 has so far been fairly unexplored . Enabling IoT network technology such as Cellular LPWA , together with cloudbased solutions , give manufacturing firms access to more information than ever before . The opportunity to use data to increase productivity is not only beneficial to a firm , but the whole of society as well .”
NOKIA
In June 2020 , the telecommunications giant Nokia introduced its cloud-native Digital Operations Centre software solution to provide communication service providers ( CSPs ) new revenue-enhancing opportunities through an automated platform that manages 5G slice-based services securely and cost effectively throughout the entire lifecycle of services . Nokia ’ s first network slicing management product provides a secure and fully automated process to design , deploy and operate network slices at scale across multi-vendor , multi-domain and multi-technology environments . Built in a modular form that incorporates the Nokia Orchestration Centre and Nokia Assurance Center , the Digital Operations Centre provides CSPs with the ability to deliver and
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“ The combination of cellular IoT and Industry 4.0 has so far been fairly unexplored ”

— Chris Houghton , Head of Region North East Asia , Ericsson
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