The industry-4.0 global innovation project's potential for the coal industry of Russia. 3. "industry-4.0" key components alignment in accordance with basic mining processes

Abstract

The article presents the results of the authors' research related to the forecasted innovations evaluation. The link between the innovations and the investments to the global economy sectors is demonstrated. The main breakthrough technologies of the upcoming period are presented, as well as assessment of their impact on production volumes in the fuel and energy sector. The authors focused attention on the systematization of technological solutions, that can be implemented in the Russian coal industry. It is shown that during the upcoming period these solutions can be based on the implementation of the project Industry-4.0 main aspects, including breakthrough technologies assisting the production cyber physical systems. The authors substantiate the potential possibility of applying the technological solutions developed by Russian scientists in the 1980s. It is demonstrated, that under the new conditions the coal industry technological platforms should be built as an array of optimized technological elements, and not as a set of separate technological solutions. It is established, that such a system existed before, as consistently supported Mine of the Future smart project.