Innovation for the Factory of the Future
Manufacturers are investing in innovative connected technology such as autonomous machines, robotics, sensors, AI, digital twins, and lights-out manufacturing to drive future growth. These technologies are reliant on secure, high-bandwidth connectivity that can accommodate the device density and latency demands of modern manufacturing and support the rapid configuration of dynamic assembly lines and faultless interaction between human operators, machines, and robots.
Today, manufacturers use a hybrid of connectivity technologies including fixed network and private cellular networks using licensed or unlicensed public spectrum. This disjointed network does not meet future needs of automation – visibility and control across the network is siloed, with public network visibility closed to IT teams.