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Accelerate your industry 4.0 transformation with Private 5G
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The world is advancing into a fourth industrial age and emerging technologies are powering it. In this article, Viswanathan Ramaswamy, Vice President of 5G & Digital Solutions Incubation at Tata Communications, explores how private 5G is helping companies accelerate their industry 4.0 transformation.
The industrial revolution was set in motion about two hundred years ago but it was in the 1990s when the third industrial age – the digital revolution – was unleashed. While the manufacturing sector has adopted new technologies, the reality is that they tend to be used as tools to upgrade existing processes only. Enterprises involved in industrial or physical work – such as mining, manufacturing and logistics – have broadly carried on as before. However, this situation is changing rapidly.And this will be achieved by making machines smarter."Developments in digital connectivity and artificial intelligence (AI) are poised to bring sweeping productivity and efficiency improvements across multiple industry sectors."


It can be a challenge to ensure connectivity and security are maintained during these exchanges. But with the right partner platform, this can be easily overcome. Other benefits of private 5G include:"The capability of private 5G to integrate with public networks is important because many critical services, such as those in healthcare, require service continuity when moving from one network to another."
- Deployment efficiency and flexibility of device movement (especially compared to a cable setup)
- Availability of required coverage and capacity with high quality and reliability
- Security, privacy, and data isolation requirements are possible
- Opportunity to enable real-time services
- Time critical applications are enabled through the Time Synchronization Network (TSN) features, available on 5G networks which support the integration of legacy Ethernet TSN networks
However, the COO can partner with an expert network management platform that has umbrella orchestration and automation overlay to the 5G Edge and 5G data center components. This partnership will allow the enterprise to manage all legacy technologies as well as private 5G at each location efficiently."It’s easy to think the answer is to install private 5G networks at each site. But doing this will only result in multiple 5G islands, no centralised control or visibility of operations within each factory."

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