Touring the base station factory, however, concluding that Nokia’s innovation centers on 5G is a classic trees vs. forest mistake. “We’re building the factory of the future,” explains Erja Sankari, Head of Oulu Factory at Nokia. Quite a mouthful to be sure – but in spite of all the buzzwords, the Industry 4.0 story begins with automation. Nokia’s base station factory, in fact, sported a number of industrial robots, both for assembling products as well as for putting them in packages. Nokia’s factory of the future effort proves that the factory workers of the next decade won’t be the traditional, blue collar employee of the past – and it’s also clear that in spite of all the automation, factory jobs aren’t going away.

Source: Forbes June 18, 2017 15:33 UTC