As the new age of hyperconnected industry comes to life, its tantalizing possibilities are waiting for enterprises with vision, commitment and courage. Fully prepared to partner with every industry and enterprise on this once-in-a-lifetime journey, here's our vision for what the next industrial revolution will demand and look like.
Industry is about to change the world, again
Industry is driven by a constant quest for productivity - seeking all means to most efficiently produce and deliver their goods and services. But in the past few decades, productivity growth has slowed dramatically.
Those who grasped what information and communications technology (ICT) could do saw large productivity gains, but as industrial digitalization and automation got started, not all industries profited equally. The more asset-intensive companies, which employ much of the world’s workforce, did not see the productivity gains of those who fully embraced the information economy.
The cusp of tomorrow
Today, we stand at the precipice of the next major industrial revolution which promises to unlock trillions of dollars of economic value over the next decade by driving massive improvements in productivity in physical and digital industries alike, enhancing quality of life in safer, healthier and more sustainable communities.
Take a 45-second tour to the factory of the future.
Let the transformation begin
Industries in the physical economy have begun their digital transformation, and the opportunity for realizing a much bigger productivity boom is here. The Automation of Everything era will be ushered in by digital interfaces, data analysis and control of the physical world through networks employing the Nokia Bell Labs Future X architecture. And this where networks to networks will support the digitalization and connection of everything and everyone with the goal of automating much of life.
The interconnection of robots, machines, drones, sensors, processing platforms and people through Future X networks will provide transformative tools for the automation and optimization of factories and warehouses, ports, electric grids, transportation networks, food, healthcare, construction, logistics and supply chain, emergency response, mining, and other physical industries.
The three imperatives of the transformation
Connect everything and go deeper
To optimize asset use, a business must be able to do two things: know the state of all relevant
assets in time to facilitate a business decision and orchestrate or control the allocation or behavior of the assets regardless of location.
Compute, whenever you need it.
Robots in a factory. Autonomous vehicles in a mine. Remote surgery.
These will never become broadly deployed unless compute resources are immediately nearby.
Apply insights. Execute with precision.
Making sense out of data quickly will yield tremendous benefits including proactively reroute trains based on the probability of flooded tracks; gain massive efficiency in logistics hubs that handle unthinkable volumes of goods daily; and optimize first responder approaches with scene analytics, saving and protecting more lives
The Nokia Bell Labs Future X for industries architecture
X marks the future
Our Future X architecture is the foundation upon which industry will build its next great age. Explore how the Industrial Internet of Things will benefit all key industries.
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Go Allwhere: Networking Solutions for the new age of industry
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Use cases
- Explore our industrial-grade private wireless use cases for airports, manufacturing, mining, ports, and utilities
- The conscious factory of the future
- Smart grid communications with converged, critical WAN
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- Give forces information superiority with mobile broadband
Blogs
- Does lean have a limit? Why resilience matters as much as efficiency in your supply chain
- The connected future of urban rail
- The future of enterprise
- 5G private wireless networks are changing the game for MRO organizations
- Options for deploying private wireless – you have a choice!
- The Future of Platforms in the Global Mining Industry
- LTE and 5G private wireless networks help port terminal operators move more for less
- Smart manufacturing – a wireless new normal?
- OT and IT — finally on speaking terms!
- Building the agile factory of the future
Press releases
- Nokia unveils 'Future X for industries' strategy and architecture to catalyze productivity and economic growth in the Industry 4.0 era
- Nokia and China Unicom deploy private LTE network for smart manufacturing services at BMW plant in China
- Nokia and Infosys establish strategic alliance to support the digital transformation of major industries and enterprises
- STC, Nokia announce region-first LTE air-to-ground trial network at GITEX 2018
- Nokia and Infosys establish strategic alliance to support the digital transformation of major industries and enterprises
- Nokia deploys private LTE network for Brazil's Elektro to strengthen power grid reliability and efficiency
- Nokia accelerates Industry 4.0 transformation with added Nokia Digital Automation Cloud functionality
- Nokia powers the grid in China for the world’s biggest utility company
- NOKIA: Ameren wins Utility Technology Council APEX award for innovative private LTE trial with Nokia
- LS ELECTRIC and Nokia to improve asset performance with new analytics management tool for Korean utility market
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