Digital Manufacturing • DM-08
Private LTE/5G & Industrial Connectivity
Coverage that survives metal, movement and electrical noise.
Scope
What the engagement covers.
Industrial wireless fails in exactly the places automation needs it most. This service designs and deploys private cellular and industrial networks engineered for the physical environment.
Included capabilities
- Private LTE and 5G design, spectrum strategy and core deployment
- Industrial Wi-Fi and mesh where cellular is not warranted
- RF survey and coverage validation under real production conditions
- Network slicing and quality of service for control-critical traffic
- OT network segmentation and secure remote access design
Outputs and deliverables
- RF survey report and coverage design
- Network architecture with segmentation and QoS design
- Validation test results against control requirements
- Operations runbooks and monitoring configuration
Workflow
How it is delivered, step by step.
Each step has an owner, an entry condition and an artefact that has to exist before the next step begins.
01SurveyRF survey under production conditions including worst-case interference.
02DesignCoverage, capacity, spectrum, core placement and redundancy.
03DeployInstallation, integration and controlled service introduction.
04ValidateCoverage and performance testing against control-traffic requirements.
05OperateMonitoring, spectrum management and change control.
Use cases
Where this is typically applied.
Sites where Wi-Fi cannot meet control-loop latency requirements
Remote or heavy-industry plants with no reliable public coverage
Delivery model
The operating pattern for Digital Manufacturing.
The same delivery discipline applies across every capability in this line, so combined engagements stay coherent.
Baseline
Asset register, data availability, loss analysis and value case per line.
Connect
Sensors, gateways, historians, protocol translation and network coverage.
Model
Twins, failure models, OEE logic and analytics validated against real events.
Deploy
Operator and maintainer workflows, alerts, dashboards and situation centre.
Scale
Second line, second site, standard templates and capability transfer.
Integration
- MES, APS, ERP and CMMS so insight becomes a work order, not a dashboard.
- SCADA, historians and PLC layers via standard industrial protocols.
- Quality and laboratory systems for genealogy and root-cause analysis.
- Private LTE/5G or industrial Wi-Fi for coverage in electrically noisy plants.
Engagement approach
Deployment starts on one line or one asset class where losses are measurable, so the business case is proven on real production data before the site-wide rollout is committed.
Related
Other capabilities in Digital Manufacturing.
DM-01
AI Technical Monitoring
Catch equipment failure while it is still cheap to fix.
DM-02Digital Twin
A live model of the plant that answers questions before you commit to the change.
DM-03OEE / Asset Scoring
One honest number for equipment performance, built from data nobody can argue with.
DM-04Situation Center
One room where production, maintenance, quality and energy are looked at together.
DM-05AI Maintenance Assistant
Put twenty years of maintenance knowledge in the technician’s hand.
DM-06Robot Fleet Management
Treat robots and AGVs as a managed fleet, not as isolated machines.
DM-07MES / APS / SCADA-HMI Integration
Make the execution layer, the planner and the control layer agree.
DM-09Smart Workshop
Digitize the workplaces where most variability actually originates.
DM-10Industrial Safety
Detect the unsafe condition before it becomes the incident report.
DM-11Environmental & Energy Management
Attribute energy and emissions to the process that actually consumed them.