The most common configuration and , not surprisingly , were 5G private networks and MEC . As many smart manufacturing enterprises indicated that they are testing both 5G private networks and MEC unlike the trend seen across all vertical industries . This reflected some degree of curiosity among smart manufacturing enterprises as to how 5G is truly transformational for AR experience together with MEC in an industrial setting .
The following three case studies provide more insights on how companies are approaching the development and use of 5G-based enterprise AR applications .
3.1 5G-ENABLED AR ADOPTION CASE STUDY 1 : HAIER ’ S MULTIYEAR JOURNEY
Haier is a home appliance and consumer electronics company based in China and prides itself to be a world-renowned brand in China and globally . As is fitting to a manufacturing market leader , Haier started their digital transformation journey as early as 2017 . They created COSMOPlat , an industrial internet platform to digitalise all factory processes including supply chain and logistics workflows . By February 2021 , Haier has deepened their digitalisation efforts by leverage complementary technologies such as AI , IoT , big data analytics , and 3D printing in 2018 , AI and 5G in 2019 , AI , 5G and MEC in 2020 . Haier fully commits to 5G MEC and is now figuring out how to further optimise their business operations .
Exhibit 10 . Case Study Haier – Summary
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The key lesson from Haier ’ s experience is that they led all efforts from the start , pushing its operators , infrastructure vendors alike to iteratively test 5G technical expertise aligned to operational needs . This reinforces the view that everyone is on a learning curve . As they started on the journey pre 5G standards , they have technical and basic business templates on the requirements to test 5G-enabled AR use cases . These should be made available to others to as to shrink development time .
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