Industry 4.0: Redefining Manufacturing in Kazakhstan

Abstract

The paper analyzes and compares the level of implementation of Industry 4.0 associated technologies in Europe and Kazakhstan. Additionally, possible model of development of manufacturing and implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies in Kazakhstan manufacturing is proposed. The main aim of this project is to define current state of industrial progress in manufacturing in Kazakhstan and compare it with European model. Underlying objective is to propose the model to implement Industry 4.0 in manufacturing in Kazakhstan. As a result, it has been shown that about 80% of manufacturing enterprise in Kazakhstan is on the level of industry 2.0, 17% of the enterprise is on the transitional state between Industry 2.0 and Industry 3.0 and only 3% of all the enterprise is on the level of Industry 3.0. On the other side it can be stated that Europe and particularly Germany shows adequate progress of implementation of Industry 4.0 associated technologies in manufacturing process. Moreover, there are good examples of companies implementing Industry 4.0 associated technologies in manufacturing in Europe shown. So, this paper shows that there is a significant gap in manufacturing process technologies between European and Kazakhstan model, therefore before considering application of European model to Kazakhstan manufacturing process some actions to improve state of manufacturing process in Kazakhstan should be taken.