The complexity of production and logistics systems generates the demand for industrial transformation: with sensor technology that enables efficient, flexible and reliable process monitoring and control using a 5G communication-infrastructure. In the “5GSensPRO” project, the Fraunhofer IPT in Aachen is developing a modularly expandable sensor cloud system for existing machines. Within a unique research environment, the world’s first 5G mobile radio network provides the opportunity to investigate and implement applications of 5G in production engineering.