Verizon lights up first 5G shipyard with Newport News Shipbuilding
12 Dezembro 2019 - 8:30AM
Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband service is now live at Newport News
Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries
(HII) in Newport News, VA. HII is America’s largest military
shipbuilding company and its Newport News Shipbuilding division
turned to Verizon to explore how 5G can enhance the shipbuilding
process as part of their digital transformation.
“We are excited to partner with Verizon on our digital journey
and be one of the first complex manufacturing businesses in the US
to have 5G on-site,” said Bharat Amin, executive vice president and
CIO of Huntington Ingalls. “Adding this capability to our
infrastructure will allow our workforce to have the right
information, at the right time, and at the right location to
perform their jobs.”
With 5G’s increased bandwidth and ultra-low latency, NNS will be
better equipped to meet network connectivity demands and will test
new ways its engineers can use augmented and virtual reality
(AR/VR) to support everything from architectural design to employee
training. The company recently undertook a rapid modernization
transitioning from pen and paper designs to tablets and allowing
smartphones to be used on premise.
As a company that deals with government classified information,
the change not only led to increased bandwidth needs but also the
need for network reliability and security. With Verizon 5G, network
virtualization will lead to a dramatic reduction in service
deployment times allowing for quick security updates. Further, 5G
is expected to be able to support up to 1M connected devices per
square kilometer and its increased throughput and low latency will
enable things like autonomous robotics and enhance machine learning
and AR/VR solutions to improve the overall speed and quality needed
to deliver the nation’s warships.
“The first and most meaningful use cases for 5G will be in
the enterprise space and we've built our 5G network to support
those truly differentiated experiences that will reshape entire
industries,” said Tami Erwin, executive vice president and CEO of
Verizon Business Group. “We’re thrilled to bring 5G to Newport News
Shipbuilding and explore how it can ultimately reshape the way
shipbuilding is done.”
With 5G on site, NNS plans to test how 5G can drive
manufacturing efficiencies that will transform business operations
with increased automation, advanced robotics, 3D holographic design
and real-time analytics. 5G could enable the company to connect
hundreds of IoT sensors to provide real-time status of processing,
machines, alarms, etc. to helping them make better decisions in
near real-time.
“5G will be a game changer when our engineers can put on a pair
of AR goggles connected to 5G and map out 3D drawings or video chat
directly with the those employees working inside a ship in
real-time,” said Brian Fields, vice president of Business
Transformation and CIO at Newport News Shipbuilding. “Using 5G to
connect our shipyard ecosystem and improving the productivity of
our employees who are designing and building the nations warships
will truly be transformational.”
Learn more about Verizon 5G technology here.
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