Posted on 09/24/2019 4:11:50 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
Telecommunications company Ericsson announced on Thursday that Lewsville, TX will be the location for its first fully automated smart factory in the US. The 300,000 square-foot factory, announced in June, will use 5G to create Advanced Antenna System radios to boost network coverage as 5G deployments gain ground in the US and will employ 100 people.
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In June, Schneider Electric opened the first industrial smart factory in Lexington, KY. This brownfield factory modernized legacy systems, using IoT to deliver safer, efficient, and sustainable results. While Schneider Electric was the first site that digitally transformed into an automated factory, Ericsson is creating the first greenfield, 5G-enabled smart factory.
The smart factory will start commercial operations in early 2020, fueled by 5G connectivity to promote flexible and agile operations. These 5G industrial solutions include connected logistics, automated assembly, automated warehouses, packing and product handling, and autonomous carts, according to the press release.
In the past two years, here are some of the other investments the company has made to support emerging technologies:
•Opening of a 5G ASIC Design Center in Austin, TX, to help accelerate 5G product development; •Creation of Global Artificial Intelligence Accelerator innovation hubs in Santa Clara, California and Montreal, Canada, to speed up adoption of advances in AI and machine learning;
•Launch of D-Fifteen in Santa Clara, CA, which is a new co-creation center in Silicon Valley for industrial partners and service providers to drive the next industrial revolution, powered by 5G, IoT and AI
•Opening of Ericsson's Center of Excellence training facility in Lewisville to attract, train and develop industry-leading tower climbers and field services staff;
•Production of the first 5G radios in the US, with a production partner in St. Petersburg, Florida during 2018;
•Establishment of a new radio network software R&D center in Austin, TX.
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100 employees? Big whoop. Glad it’s not me relocating to that part of the overgrown metropolis!
Yuck—who wants to simmer in a 5G factory?
Those desperate for a job. Great.
Sustainable! You know it’s gotta be good if it’s “sustainable.” There’s nothing better than “sustainable” because, you know, like, nothing mankind has done before was ever sustainable.
“using IoT to deliver SAFER, efficient, and sustainable results”
Safer? I was assured it was completely safe! /s
More liberals. Ugh!
The upper stories of the Empire State building have hosted many radio and TV antennas for a century, “simmering” the thousands working there. There is no increased cancer risk or other health hazard.
Ditto ham radio operators who worked in close proximity - often to actual microwave frequencies - for years.
Sustainable is just a buzzword today. I noticed they used it without the green connotations, whether financial or environmental. Just a vague “it’s good” reference.
“using IoT to deliver SAFER, efficient, and sustainable results”
True, perhaps, but 5G is a tool for big brother. Some cities are banning the 5G antennas. Unsightly, and they will be everywhere snooping on you and controlling stuff. They will become a symbol of big brother.
Do you need 5G? Do you have trouble making calls and viewing the internet on your wireless device? If not then you don’t need it. Do you live in a remote area with poor reception? 5G ain’t the solution for that.
I was at a shopping center the other day and walked by a “Prana” clothing store. They used that co-opted buzzword du jour “sustainable” to describe their clothing. I stopped in and asked the young clerk what “sustainable clothing” was. I pointed out that mankind has been making clothing out of plant fibers for about 4,000 years now and that seemed to be rather self-sustaining. It was obvious that the smart people at Prana had anticipated this and trained their employees well. She patiently explained to me the techniques they use to process their cotton with minimal waste and minimal use of toxic chemicals. I expected a brain-dead Thunberg zealot but actually found a thinking, smart sales clerk.
That notwithstanding, clothing has been “sustainable” for millennia without us focusing on making it “sustainable.” It it wasn’t, companies would go out of business and we would all be buck naked.
Not the same as 5G.
Lewisville is NW of Dallas, in Denton County.
Lewisville is not my favorite city in the Metroplex, I’ll leave it at that.
We live in a rural area, and Suddenlink, our cable company, just switched to 5G and took away any other options. We are stuck with it. :-(
“We are stuck with it.”
If it works ok that’s good. It’s hard for me to see using it in sparsely populated areas because it’s a short-range thing, but your provider has thought that through.
On the other hand, it’s cheaper than running cables.
In rural areas maybe we should think of it as a long range wifi.
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