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5G for Manufacturing - How are leading manufacturers using 5G? What are the approaches and recommendations? Security challenges & solutions...

This article appears in the 5G Magazine published in March 2022

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5G for Manufacturing | 5G Magazine

Welcome to this edition of 5G Magazine, where we focus on 5G connectivity for the manufacturing sector. To determine for which applications the manufacturing industry is leveraging 5G technology, the impact of 5G, and the leading players, we investigated 60 worldwide manufacturing use cases.

Production vs. Trial Use Cases – Out of the 60 use cases utilizing the 5G network, 70 percent of the use cases were already in production, and 30 percent were in trial mode.

Deployment Mode – Enterprises deployed a “private 5G network,” with security as the main incentive in ninety-six percent (96%) of the evaluated use cases. In comparison, enterprises chose a public-private 5G combination with network slicing for two use cases.

Leading Region & Country – Europe has the most private 5G deployments for manufacturing, with German enterprises leading the way.

Who owns spectrum? – Fifty-three percent (53%) of the enterprises used spectrum from telecommunications service providers. In comparison, forty-seven percent (43%) utilized the enterprise vertical spectrum.

In addition to our independent research, we spoke with industry experts, including Dr. Claudius Noack, about Lufthansa Technik’s 5G campus network, related use cases, deployment approach, outcomes, and outlook. Given that Nokia is the technology provider for one of Lufthansa Technik’s use cases, which has been in production for more than two years, we present their perspective.

Liorn Ben Horin, VP of Systems Engineering of OneLayer, and Matt Trifiro, CMO of Vapor.io, cover the two critical aspects of the manufacturing use cases: security and edge. Karin Loidl, Technology Advisor at Fraunhofer IIS, sets the stage for transitioning Industry 4.0 to human-centric Industry 5.0 with 5G.