Digest “Successful practices of digitalization of industrial enterprises in Kazakhstan” was published

The purpose of the digest is to exchange experience and motivate industrial companies to Industry 4.0.

For the first time in Kazakhstan, the digest “Successful practices of digitalization of industrial enterprises in Kazakhstan” was published. The autonomous cluster fund “Park of Innovative Technologies”, operating under the Tech Garden brand, with the support of the Akimat of the Karaganda Region, the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Kazakhmys Corporation LLP, has developed a digital interactive publication, which includes twelve implemented Industry 4.0 projects from enterprises Karaganda region.

The purpose of publishing the digest was to exchange experience and motivate industrial companies of the country to implement the best digital solutions and the transition to Industry 4.0 on the example of enterprises of the Karaganda region.

The digest is published in the public domain on the official website of the fund, you can view the full version here: https://techgarden.kz/rubric/digest.

The digital officers of the companies shared the challenges facing each enterprise and demonstrated the technologies they used. The collected data showed a wide range of processes that can be digitized in the mining and metallurgical complex, in order to obtain economic benefits, increase productivity and safety.

The publication contains general information about enterprises, names of implemented digital solutions and effects.

For example, Kazakhmys Corporation LLP showed the project “Implementation of the process equipment condition monitoring system”. The task was to provide operational information about the state of the production process and a number of other goals. The introduction of the technology made it possible to obtain:
- a single point of access to operational technological information about the state of the production process;
- collection and storage of technological parameters of the APCS in a single information space of the enterprise and other effects.

The publication also contains information about the centers of technological development, created by the foundation in conjunction with transnational companies. Smart Industry Management Platform (SIMP) is a supermarket platform that collects a pool of quality IT solutions, and industrial enterprises host their real tasks. The platform is based on “open innovation”. Industrial enterprises quickly find the most effective solutions for their tasks with the help of domestic IT companies. Direct links from the digest allow you to see the tasks of industrial enterprises, IT solutions and training materials.

“The main goal of Tech Garden is to digitalize 100 enterprises in the country by 2025. This is 20% of the pool of enterprises in the mining and metallurgical complex, oil and gas sector, mechanical engineering and other industries that are actively introducing new technologies. Thus, to create a critical mass of enterprises “beacons” — market drivers. For effective interaction of all participants of the Industry 4.0 ecosystem, we are creating a SIMP platform, “said Askar Sembin, CEO of Tech Garden.

“In accordance with the instructions of Elbasy, we are actively working on the digitalization of the industry and the transition to Industry 4.0. The Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan has created a digital ecosystem for supporting domestic industrial and IT enterprises using the SIMP technology platform. Today, the ecosystem participants are industrial enterprises, IT companies, development institutes, universities, research institutes, technology and competence centers, laboratories, government agencies, “said Dinara Shcheglova, Vice Minister of MIIR RK.

Also, the digital interactive digest contains clarifications on the measures of state support for subsoil users: ACF “PIT” Tech Garden is the operator for the implementation of R&D for subsoil users within the framework of their obligations to allocate 1% of the SRS / ZND.

A special section informs about the measures of state support for industrial enterprises, which are provided by the Kazakhstan center of industry and export “QazIndustry”. The section explains in detail what costs, aimed at the digital transformation of an enterprise, can be reimbursed by the state. In the same section, the “Methodology for analyzing industrial enterprises for the implementation of digital projects”, developed by “QazIndustry”, is published.

Tech Garden plans to make the digest regular and publish it in two directions:
- digital and innovative solutions implemented by the country’s industrial enterprises;
- digital and innovative solutions offered to the industry by domestic IT companies.