XG Mobile Promotion Forum
Flexible Factory Partner Alliance
October 9, 2024
The XG Mobile Forum (XGMF), which promotes the deployment of mobile services/mobile business, and the Flexible Factory Partner Alliance (FFPA), which promotes the deployment of wireless communications in factories, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate toward building a global ecosystem for industrial wireless communications, especially industrial 5G. The FFPA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate toward building a global ecosystem for industrial wireless communications, especially for industrial 5G. This new partnership will promote the use of wireless communications in smart factories and other applications.
FFPA is promoting the SRF radio platform, which standardizes cooperative control technology to realize stable communication in an environment where multiple radio systems are intermingled, and is developing Ver. 2 for 5G by 2022. The XGMF will contribute to strengthening the growth potential of the information and telecommunications industry by demonstrating Japan's international leadership in the Beyond 5G/6G era and creating innovative technologies and new use cases that are not bound by conventional wisdom or convention. The two parties will maximize synergies and analyze the potential of applying Beyond 5G/6G to industrial telecommunications The activity items listed in the MoU include mutual participation in meetings and events, joint marketing and promotional activities, and exchange of information and publications.
Kenichi Maruhashi (NEC), the FFPA's managing director, stated
Together with XGMF, we will develop use cases that contribute to productivity improvements for users and promote the use of wireless in manufacturing. Together with XGMF, we will develop use cases that will help users increase productivity and promote the use of wireless in manufacturing."
XGMF co-chairman Akihiro Nakao (University of Tokyo) said
As 5G technology evolves and 6G development progresses, collaboration with the respective industries becomes even more important." Collaboration with the FFPA, a leader in driving wireless use in manufacturing, is essential to XGMF's work to explore innovative business models and new use cases for wireless communications and to further promote 5G/local 5G in a strong partnership."
About XG Mobile Promotion Forum
The XGMF aims to promote the spread of mobile services and the development of mobile businesses in order to meet the changing needs for mobile communications, and to contribute to the strengthening of the growth potential of the information and communications industry by taking an international leadership role in the Beyond 5G/6G era and creating innovative technologies and new use cases that are not bound by conventional wisdom and conventions. The purpose of the project is to contribute to the enhancement of the growth potential of the information and telecommunications industry by promoting the diffusion of mobile services and the development of mobile businesses in order to meet the changing needs of mobile communications.
https://xgmf.jp/
About the Flexible Factory Partner Alliance
The Flexible Factory Partner Alliance (FFPA) is a non-profit voluntary organization established in July 2017 to promote the IoT in manufacturing sites by developing and standardizing cooperative control technologies that enable stable communication in environments where multiple wireless systems are intermingled, and by promoting their widespread use. Member companies include OMRON Corporation, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Sunritsu Automation, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, NEC Corporation, Fujitsu Limited, Murata Machinery, Siemens AG, and Telecom Engineering Center Foundation. The chairman is Andreas Dengel (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence).
https://www.ffp-a.org/jp-index.html
<Contact
Flexible Factory Partner Alliance
Shinichi Sato
info@ffp-a.org
XG Mobile Promotion Forum
Seiji Nishioka
contact@xgmf.jp