Technologies of the Future: Smart Production in Industry

Abstract

In line with global trends of virtual production within the frames of the 4-th industrial revolution concept industrial enterprises facing new challenges and objectives have to transform their production processes in order to support competitiveness. Standard approaches to production management cannot retain enterprise profitability on the desirable level. Globalization rate increases at the expense of unprecedented development of information technologies. The article analyzes today’s trends of science-intensive industrial technology development, finding new priority lines in devising smart manufacturing in Russian industry. The author demonstrates the demand in technological process automation at industrial enterprises in Russia, shows opportunities and grounds practical necessity of using artificial intellect in manufacturing and introduction of smart-manufacturing at Russian enterprises. Successful practices of introducing IoT technologies at Russian and overseas enterprises were depicted. The author provides target figures for priority production technologies within the frames of the Federal project ‘Digital Technologies’: technologies of smart manufacturing (Smart Manufacturing); digital projecting, mathematic modeling and managing the life cycle of product or produce (Smart Design); manipulators and manipulating technologies. Technology of developing complex architecture and strategy for using smart-manufacturing was identified and target figures for the period up to 2014 by principle technological trends of developing smart-manufacturing in Russia were provided. Opportunities for shaping smart-potential and its strategic use in the interests of production development were described. The author develops the present economic and theoretical ideas dealing with industrial production digitsalization and problems of smart technologies introduction. The obtained results and conclusions can be used by top management of corporations in identifying lines and strategies of industrial enterprise development.