Published January 7, 2021 | Version v1
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Public and Non-Public Network Integration for 5Growth Industry 4.0 Use Cases

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Building upon on a digital transformation, Industry 4.0 (I4.0) aims to build the factories of the future, which feature additional flexibility, increasingly connected infrastructures and automated processes. 5G is playing a paramount role in this transformation, as it can offer high bandwidth, reliable and low latency wireless connectivity to meet the stringent and critical performance requirements of the manufacturing processes. This work analyzes the applicability of 5G technologies as key enablers to support, enhance and even enable novel advances in the I4.0, particularly into two relevant use cases related to metrology and quality control. The 5Growth platform, an AI-driven automated and shareable 5G End-to-End platform, sets out to address the identified architectural and operational challenges and, therefore, to contribute to the realization of the I4.0 vision. Several innovations, being developed on this platform, can be exploited to support a fully automated service deployment and an integration of the verticals' private networks with public operators' networks. The 5Growth platform is then leveraged to implement the selected I4.0 use cases, providing the basis to assess the applicability and introduced benefits of 5G technologies.

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This work has been partially supported by EC H2020 5GPPP 5Growth project (Grant 856709) and H2020 5G-EVE project (Grant 815074). © 2021, IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other work.

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European Commission
5GROWTH - 5G-enabled Growth in Vertical Industries 856709