Keep people, systems and operations connected
Cellular coverage for mobile employees
Modern manufacturing and warehousing run on reliable wireless — real-time communication, production management, automation, inventory tracking, analytics and worker safety. In today’s industrial environments, robust indoor coverage is not optional; it is critical operational infrastructure, and every mobile employee depends on a signal that reaches the floor, the racks and the dock. Racking stacked forty feet high acts as a wall the signal has to cross a hundred times over, and machinery throws RF noise all day.
ANDREW® brings the mobile operators’ networks inside and distributes them across production floors and factory environments, warehouses, distribution centers and high-bay storage, loading docks and outdoor operational areas, utility, maintenance and back-of-house spaces, and administrative offices and shared workspaces. Whether the answer is a building-wide distributed antenna system (DAS), targeted small cells or both, ANDREW designs it as a true neutral-host foundation — energy-efficient and ready to scale.
Challenges and opportunities
Reliable, facility-wide cellular coverage now underpins productivity, visibility and worker safety. This is where in-building cellular coverage matters most.
Productivity
Seamless wireless connectivity supports the automation that improves efficiency and throughput — and consistent coverage optimizes workflows while reducing operational friction and downtime:
Visibility
High-speed, low-latency 5G enables real-time asset tracking and connected diagnostics — catching faults before they become failures, reducing unplanned downtime and extending equipment lifecycle:
Training & collaboration
AR and VR need high-bandwidth wireless for immersive training, troubleshooting and collaboration — improving worker productivity, accelerating training and reducing operational disruptions:
Deployments
Manufacturing plants and production facilities
Warehouses and distribution centers
Logistics and fulfillment operations
Industrial campuses and multi-building sites
Automotive and heavy industrial facilities
High-tech manufacturing and electronics facilities
The ANDREW advantage
ANDREW all-digital solutions enable 4G/5G connectivity across plants, warehouses and distribution centers worldwide — from a single plant to an industrial campus or portfolio.
Our comprehensive offering for manufacturing and warehousing spans the ERA® DAS platform, ONECELL® in-building small cells and expert design and support.
Partnering with ANDREW means wireless technology built for long-term simplicity, efficiency and sustainability — through 5G and beyond.
Featured solutions
ANDREW brings reliable 4G/5G inside with DAS and small cells, plus private networks — adding coverage and capacity across production floors, storage and docks.
ANDREW indoor solutions deliver the reliability and redundancy required for lone-worker safety and emergency response across the facility.
Frequently asked questions
Answers about indoor signal, DAS, small cells, carriers, Wi-Fi and private 5G.
The macro network was built to cover ground, not to get through it. Industrial buildings are among the hardest there are — steel structure, metal cladding and everything you have put inside them. A strong signal in the yard can be nothing three aisles into a distribution center.
A DAS distributes every operator’s network across a large or complex building on one shared system; a small cell adds focused cellular capacity in a specific area. ANDREW offers both — the ERA® DAS platform and ONECELL® in-building small cells — and helps match the right approach, or a combination, to your plant or warehouse.
Yes. ANDREW’s platform is one infrastructure, approved by global operators, carrying public cellular, private networks and public safety from pre-4G through 5G.
Yes — they do different jobs. Wi-Fi carries the systems you own and control — the WMS, the scanners, the building services. A DAS or small cell brings the operators’ cellular networks to every person, contractor and driver on any carrier, and only cellular carries E911 that knows where the caller actually is rather than where the account is registered, Wireless Emergency Alerts to every device in the building and public-safety communications.
Yes. One infrastructure supports public cellular, private networks and public safety, so automation and autonomous mobile robots can ride private 5G on the same platform that covers every worker’s phone.
Proven. ANDREW’s all-digital DAS is operating at scale today on more than a decade of digital deployments, and is first to connect all three major U.S. operators, across every major RAN vendor, digitally on one DAS — deployed at scale, not promised on a roadmap.
Let’s discuss how ANDREW can help get you there.
