Nokia and Flex to combine 5G SA private wireless and

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Nokia and Flex to combine 5G SA private wireless and Industry 4.0 experience for superior manufacturing options in Brazil

• The 5G SA private wireless resolution, primarily based on Nokia Digital Automation Cloud, will enhance important communications for Flex manufacturing operations
• Flex purpose is to discover 5G expertise for wireless reconfigurable manufacturing programs that may adapt in accordance to demand and assist a number of units purposes with large wireless information transfers
• Deployment consists of Nokia Network Digital Twin powered by Nokia Bell Labs to predict upkeep wants and potential downtime of the community upfront

                         
September 15, 2022

Espoo, Finland – Nokia at the moment introduced a collaboration with Flex Brazil to deploy 5G SA private wireless networks in its manufacturing services in Brazil. Initial use instances will focus at rising wireless purposes and exploring the potential of 5G for dependable connectivity, large transfers of operational information and higher format flexibility on the shopfloor. Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (Nokia DAC) will present the private wireless on-demand service in addition to MX Industrial Edge computing and digital-enabling purposes.

The collaboration displays the long-term purpose of each corporations to introduce progressive Industry 4.0 options within the provide chain and manufacturing verticals, to make operations extra agile and value efficient with 5G expertise, turning into a lighthouse to different corporations fascinated with pursuing this journey.

Flex, a multinational electronics firm with over 100 websites worldwide, gives progressive applied sciences that play a key function in manufacturing and provide chain operations. A pacesetter in Industry 4.0, they ship to its varied world prospects utilizing already at the moment applied sciences resembling superior simulation, automation and robotics, analytics, IoT and additive manufacturing (3D printing). Private wireless is seen as the important thing enabler to improve competitiveness linked to the digital transformation ensuing elevated effectivity, agility and sustainability.

Offered as-a-service, Nokia DAC combines plug-and-play 4.9G/LTE and 5G industrial-grade community connectivity with on-premise edge computing to present the info administration and processing to assist real-time purposes for good manufacturing, predictive upkeep, distant operations and many different purposes.

Nokia Network Digital Twin creates a digital twin of the private 5G community and its linked units. This permits Flex to monitor community operations in actual time and predict upkeep wants and potential downtime upfront, lowering disruptions in manufacturing and making its factories extra environment friendly and productive sooner or later. Nokia Bell Labs improvements specializing in novel networks purposes can be experimented at Flex to allow new forward-looking use instances of deterministic networking for reconfigurable manufacturing traces.
  

Marcelo Marcomini, Industry 4.0 Executive for Flex Brazil, stated: “We welcome the collaboration with Nokia to join us on this journey to expand the scope of our solutions by integrating Nokia’s 5G private wireless expertise to improve our current operations efficiency and prepare for the future of manufacturing at the same time.”

Marcelo Entreconti, Head of Enterprise for Latin America, Nokia, stated: “The partnership will leverage our strength in advanced networking and mission-critical communications with Flex long experience in manufacturing and supply chain innovation. Together, we will explore the power of Industry 4.0 to transform how we manufacture and distribute goods in this new digital world.”

Nokia has deployed mission-critical networks to greater than 2,200 main enterprise prospects within the transport, vitality, massive enterprise, manufacturing, webscale, and public sector segments across the globe. It has additionally prolonged its experience to greater than 450 massive private wireless prospects worldwide throughout an array of sectors and has been cited by quite a few trade analysts because the main supplier of private wireless networking worldwide.

Resources
Web web page: Nokia Industrial Private Wireless    
Web web page: Nokia Digital Automation Cloud
Web web page: Nokia Manufacturing

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Flex is the manufacturing accomplice of selection that helps a various buyer base design and construct merchandise that enhance the world. Through the collective power of a world workforce throughout 30 nations and accountable, sustainable operations, Flex delivers expertise innovation, provide chain, manufacturing and round economy options to varied industries and finish markets. For extra data, go to flex.com.

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