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The Industry 4.0 sector is evolving in a tremendous pace by introducing a set of industrial automation mechanisms tightly coupled with the exploitation of Internet of Things (IoT), 5G and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. By combining such emerging technologies, interconnected sensors, instruments, and other industrial devices are networked together with industrial applications, formulating the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and aiming to improve the efficiency and reliability of the deployed applications and provide Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. However, in a 5G era, efficient, reliable and highly performant applications' provision has to be combined with exploitation of capabilities offered by 5G networks. Optimal usage of the available resources has to be realised, while guaranteeing strict QoS requirements such as high data rates, ultra-low latency and jitter. The first step towards this direction is based on the …