The flagship of the Turkish economy is due a refurb
Nokia has been appointed to revive Turkish industry with the help of 5G and an employers’ association. Mext, the Turkish Employers’ Association of Metal Industries Technology Center will be the proving ground in the coming months for a range of inventions using 5G private wireless.
The project will begin with Nokia installing its 5G private wireless Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) system at the MEXT Technology Centre. This will connect 11 manufacturers who have presented use cases and more are to be added, said a Nokia statement. Manufacturing is one of the cornerstones of Turkey’s economy.
Istanbul’s Atasehir project, is one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive digital revamp centres. An enterprise zone, run by Mext, it refurbishes old industrial companies and empowers them with intelligence and agility in line with the principles of Industry 4.0. The technology centre hosts 50 globally recognised technology providers, universities and institutions. As a Mext partner Nokia will work within this zone, putting 5G into an industrial context. This is significant since 5G is not commercially available.
Nokia has installed peak performance networks that boost industrial output in 2,201 enterprise customers in transport, energy, large enterprise, manufacturing, webscale and public sectors across the world. The company has extended its expertise to more than 485 large private wireless customers worldwide across an array of customers. “Nokia’s experience of installing hundreds of private wireless systems around the globe will be invaluable to us when we regroup around the Digital Automation Cloud,” said Efe Erdem, Executive Director of MEXT Technology Center.
The manufacturing sector is central to Turkey’s economy, according to Ozgur Erzincan, Nokia’s country manager for Turkey. Although 5G is not yet a commercial reality in Turkey, there is a widespread enthusiasm among Turkish enterprises to explore the possibilities of 5G private wireless systems. “It is of utmost importance for Nokia to support a local 5G vertical ecosystem and to be the trailblazer in the Turkish Industry to use 5G for increased competitiveness.”