PM: Russia to install local software at plants in digital overhaul

MOSCOW, Nov 8 (PRIME) -- The Russian government will carry out large-scale digital transformation that will focus on introduction of local information solutions at the factories, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin told with his deputies on Monday.

“The countries that will digitalize their industries faster than the others will become the technological leaders. We have all the possibilities to do it. In the coming years, we plan to implement four innovative projects in the processing industry,” Mishustin said.

“To achieve this, we’ll quadruple financial support of the national industrial software projects – these are the technologies of the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, robotechnics, sensorics, virtual and augmented realities.”

Digital technologies will raise the workforce productivity, cut costs, and speed up the goods launch to the market.

“It’s important to increase the share of our own electronic components for digital transformation of the industry by the end of the decade, it should exceed 40%,” the prime minister said.

“To maintain competitiveness of manufacture, we should not only switch to the digit successfully, but organize work on the basis of new principles – quickly, with high quality, and cheaply, to meet clients’ requirements. We hope that the national industry will produce at least 70% of high-tech products under this model by the end of the decade.”

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