Smart manufacturing is a dynamic, autonomous, and data reliant-manufacturing or processing line relying on network for data synchronization and remote accessing of smart factories. Hence a progressive transformation has been realized in industry 4.0 with the evolution of network generations in the telecommunication sector to complement the system autonomy. However, the incorporation of the latest network technologies to Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC’s)-driven smart manufacturing plants has not gained sufficient attention at both research and implementation level. This has led to a reckonable deficiency in processing plants and manufacturing sector at large as most operations in these sectors are automated using PLC drives. This paper illustrates the possible and most efficient experimental setup for achieving an Industrial Wireless Network in PLC-driven plants using the Scalance MUM856-1 5G wireless router with the aim of improving network factors that affect production time, reasons vindicating on the selected method, and scalability of the experimental setup to all PLC driven plants. The preliminary results of the measured latencies, data-rates, and assessed reliability using the experimental setup show substantial variations from the previous network setup that allow for a significant reduction in production time using 5G network technology.