Robots Managing Robots: Nokia's Digital Factory Of The Future

Even though Finland-based unloaded its mobile handset business on in 2014, it remains the second-largest mobile equipment manufacturer in the world after Sweden-based . The company has about 100,000 employees after its acquisition of in 2016. Microsoft shuttered the handset business a scant two years after the company acquired it, freeing up hundreds of skilled technical resources, especially in Oulu, as I discussed in my last article. In spite of these disruptions, Nokia still employs over 2,000 people in this small city near the Arctic Circle. In fact, the company still operates a factory there, manufacturing mobile base stations for telco service providers.