Smart Industry 2021

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Mercedes-Benz Cars and Telefónica
Deutschland have deployed the
world’s first 5G campus network at
the flagship Sindelfingen car manufacturing
plant, near Stuttgart. “In
Factory 56 we are significantly increasing
flexibility and efficiency in
comparison to our current vehicle
Augmented Reality
Cabin completions
showing 3D design
of a cabin interior
in an empty aircraft
fuselage.
source ©: Lufthansa Technik
assembly halls – without sacrificing
our quality,” says Ulrike Graze, the
Mercedes-Benz manager responsible
for Factory 56. The unit covers
220,000 square meters, which
equates to about 30 soccer fields.
Industry 4.0 Becomes
Reality at Last
A core element of the new production
facility – an all-digital, flexible,
“green” factory – will be the 5G campus
network installed by Telefónica
Deutschland and O2 in cooperation
with network equipment supplier
Ericsson. The mobile communications
mesh will connect machines
and systems intelligently, securely,
wirelessly, and in real time. The network
is used in ongoing automobile
production at Mercedes-Benz.
“With 5G, the concept of Industry
4.0 becomes reality. The Mercedes-
Benz Cars plant in Sindelfingen is
setting innovation standards here.
The new 5G mobile communications
standard is impressive with
particularly fast data transfer rates,
very high accuracy, and short delay
times. 5G is becoming a huge
efficiency lever in robotics, in the
connection of production facilities,
and, thus, in industry as a whole,”
says Markus Haas, CEO of Telefónica
Deutschland/O2.
Mercedes-Benz is optimizing existing
production processes in its
plant with the help of new features,
including data linking for product
tracking on the assembly line. With
a separate in-house network, all processes
can be optimized and made
more robust and, if necessary, adapted
at short notice to meet prevailing
market requirements. Furthermore,
Something for Everyone
Campus Networks are
exclusive mobile networks for a
defined local campus, a
university, or individual buildings.
source ©: Deutsche Telekom
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