A research-to-practice conference dedicated to modern digital technology in Industry 4.0 as known as “the fourth industrial revolution” was held at SUSU.
The fourth industrial revolution is mass adoption of cyber physical systems (an integration of computation resources into physical processes) into production. It is foretold that changes will affect different spheres of life: policy, labor market, technology processes, etc.
According to SUSU Rector Alexander Shestakov, the university has set the task of developing technologies of Industry 4.0. These are social and economy spheres and digital industry in production. Director General of the Siemens PLM Software in Russia and the CIS Viktor Bespalov noted the high level of digital technology’s development at SUSU and wished success to the team of the new Center of Computer Engineering which opened on September 20. Creation of the laboratory became possible thanks to collaboration with the Siemens Company. The Center will provide engineering services to the largest industrial enterprises of the region.
Director of the Siemens PLM Software representative office in the Urals Vyacheslav Isaev told about how the world around us has changed during the last seven years. Once popular operational system Symbian in Nokia cell phones was replaced by devices which operate on Android and iOS platforms. And generic production of automobiles was replaced by customized car assembling. The same phenomenon is observed in industrial branches.
“We have passed the road from the Polytechnic Institute which operated under conditions of the war time up to the international scientific center. During this time, we were answering time challenges: constructed tanks, rockets and control systems. A new challenge is digital economy, and we are ready for it,” stated Vice-Rector of SUSU Strategic Development, scientific supervisor of the Center of Computer Engineering Andrey Keller.
The Vice-Rector reminded that Laboratories of Physical Modeling, Mechanical Engineering and Composite Materials were created at South Ural State University, and the university’s supercomputer is in the top-three of the best supercomputers of Russian universities.