Improving operational efficiency top priority: Nokia – Khaleej Times

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Mahmoud El Banna, Head of Digital Industries, Middle East and Africa region at Nokia.

UAE aims to increase productivity and development of innovative products, boost manufacturing by 30 per cent, and add Dh25 billion ($6.8billion) to the economy by 2031.

Published: Fri 3 Dec 2021, 12:10 AM

Last updated: Fri 3 Dec 2021, 12:13 AM

Nokia is at the forefront to help enterprises realise their business goals by improving operational efficiency, while gaining greater control over their infrastructure, said Mahmoud El Banna, head of Digital Industries, Middle East and Africa region at Nokia.

The global brand has aligned its strategy in line with the UAE Government’s Vision 2021 initiative to maximise the use of technology to build a more sustainable and progressive world. Nokia demonstrated innovative private wireless solutions and several path-breaking Industry 4.0 use cases at Gitex 2021 to help enterprises accelerate digitisation to enhance efficiency and productivity in a sustainable manner.

El Banna explained: “We enable industries in order to pursue their journey for industry 4.0 by setting them up to deploy digital infrastructure and an even variety of new industry use cases that automate the operation today that save costs and make sure that they run in a more safer environment. So, be it on the energy side, including utilities, oil and gas, mining, the government and smart cities, as well as the manufacturing industry, which all of these are starting to transform their operations today by deploying infrastructure that will perform locally.”

Nokia will focus on oil and gas and utility transformation, which is moving at an exponential rate in order to deploy digital infrastructure to provide automation and pursue the IR 4.0 use cases. The company also see a very strong demand for ‘cities and smart communities’.

El Banna said: “We are seeing the Saudis taking an approach to build new cities on the shores of the Red Sea, which are state of the art cities, green cities in terms of energy, sustainable, and they are really opening new opportunities for the citizens in order to go and live there.”

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