The ability to exchange huge amounts of data and, at the same time, to remotely monitor industrial plants, ensuring greater efficiency and significantly improving the production cycle. These are the objectives that led to the creation of a Verona the first smart factory Italian connected, thanks to a private network that allows the development of new solutions in collaboration with Intel.
An innovation destined to make school, considering that the ability to analyze and enhance data it is a crucial frontier of the manufacturing sector to improve productivity on the one hand and to ensure safety on the other. Just think that, according to the estimates of Fortune Business Insights, the smart manufacturing market will reach a value of over $ 506 billion by 2027, recording an aggregate annual growth rate of 12.2%.
The companies involved
Exor International, a company that produces digital platforms for the industrial sector, points the way to the factory connected in 5G thanks to the work done by Tim to give life to the private network. The infrastructure, which uses the 3.7 GHz and 26GHz (millimeter wave) frequencies acquired by the Italian telecommunications group in the tender called by Mise, allows to optimize the processes of the smart factory by exploiting the very low latency and the highest level of security. and reliability that characterize dedicated indoor covers.
Intel, for its part, intervened in the project by making its technologies available to artificial intelligence, including a 5G lab within the plant that allows manufacturing customers to test their applications within a private network and integrate them with existing solutions, in order to offer added value for the market.
Applications
In particular, it will be possible, for example, to test the effectiveness of 5G in favoring the communication of industrial robots connected to each other. Exor will open a portion of the 5G factory and lab to enterprises to showcase the benefits of the latest networking technologies and industrial IoT edge solutions that move processing to the customer’s production line.
Among the first applications in the program, Exor will implement a pilot project for the construction of a visual quality inspection machine. The connected factory shows how the operational advantages of digitalization encompass various areas, from the autonomous organization of human resources and real-time responsiveness to changes in orders and employee availability to the ability to update the status of orders and progress in real time of jobs, regardless of the size of the order.
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The words of the protagonists
Federico Rigoni, Tim’s chief revenue officer, proudly claims to have “built the first private 5G network in Italy alongside a manufacturing excellence in the Northeast such as Exor, which immediately grasped the potential of this solution”. It is, he explains, “a real network dedicated to the company that allows to optimize the processes of smart factory 4.0 and to benefit from the best performance of 5G “. He then indicates how the goal is to offer this model” to all client companies, starting with those present in over 140 industrial districts “.
While Claudio Ambra, chief technical officer of Exor International, recalls how the solution for the smart factory was built from the ground up “to respond to a market that demands more and more answers in the shortest possible time”. He then points out how this initiative shows that the digitization “it can be implemented on any scale and this is particularly important for manufacturing companies that need to be innovative and competitive in the market”.
Finally Christine Boles, vice president, IoT group and general manager, industrial solutions at Intel, observes how “an acceleration in the adoption of industry 4.0 by our customers, who are interested in understanding how 5G and artificial intelligence can help them to make them quicker digital transition“. Exor’s new smart factory, he recalls,” is a prime example of how implementing standards-based solutions with open architectures can help reduce maintenance costs, increase productivity and take advantage of market opportunities. ” .
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