Prototyping and Demonstrating 5G Verticals: The Smart Manufacturing Case Peuster, Manuel Schneider, Stefan Balthasar Behnke, Daniel Müller, Marcel Bök, Patrick-Benjamin Karl, Holger ddc:000 5G together with software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualisation (NFV) will enable a wide variety of vertical use cases. One of them is the smart man- ufacturing case which utilises 5G networks to interconnect production machines, machine parks, and factory sites to enable new possibilities in terms of flexibility, automation, and novel applications (industry 4.0). However, the availability of realistic and practical proof-of-concepts for those smart manufacturing scenarios is still limited. This demo fills this gap by not only showing a real-world smart manufacturing application entirely implemented using NFV concepts, but also a lightweight prototyping framework that simplifies the realisation of vertical NFV proof-of-concepts. Dur- ing the demo, we show how an NFV-based smart manufacturing scenario can be specified, on-boarded, and instantiated before we demonstrate how the presented NFV services simplify machine data collection, aggregation, and analysis. 2019 info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject doc-type:conferenceObject text http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794 https://ris.uni-paderborn.de/record/8792 https://ris.uni-paderborn.de/download/8792/8794 Peuster M, Schneider SB, Behnke D, Müller M, Bök P-B, Karl H. Prototyping and Demonstrating 5G Verticals: The Smart Manufacturing Case. In: <i>5th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2019)</i>. Paris; 2019. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/NETSOFT.2019.8806685">10.1109/NETSOFT.2019.8806685</a> eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1109/NETSOFT.2019.8806685 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/761493 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess