A UK government-backed project focused on 5G in manufacturing has moved into its second phase. 5G-ENCODE’s first phase was based on 4G and aimed to establish a baseline against which results from the private 5G network testbed could be benchmarked. The results of Phase 1 will be shared next month. This new phase will assess how well 5G meets specific industrial use cases in manufacturing such as AR/VR to support training or design; tracking of time-sensitive assets; or real time in-process monitoring, among others. This stage of 5G-ENCODE sees project participants creating a network slice that knits together slices from one transport network and two separate private networks, located several miles apart. “For the first time in the world, an…