Digital technologies used in technical diagnostics, assessment of technical condition, maintenance and repair of mining machines and equipment

The article deals with the organization of a single technological space for technical diagnostics, maintenance, and repair of mining equipment. The digital technology that unites all services related to production, diagnostics of technical condition, maintenance and repair of mining equipment is based on the SAFE PLANT software package, which provides globality, scalability, versatility, integrability, modularity, distribution, and functionality. The article reflects the results of the implementation of the system at an industrial enterprise.

Automated synthesis of mobile robots of arbitrary orientation in the technological space

The research is devoted to the solution to the development of a methodology for the synthesis of mobile robots of arbitrary orientation in the technological space with systems for holding mobile robots on the moving surface to compensate for the gravitational and technological load. Mobile robots, also known in international publications as Climber Robot, are a new modification of mobile robots. The creation of this type of robotics is dictated by the need to perform technological operations in such areas as monitoring industrial facilities, erection and dismantling of building structures, repair and preventive maintenance of their components, maintenance of high-rise buildings of urban utilities, forest and park woodlands, etc. The operation of mobile robots acquires particular relevance in the extreme conditions of manmade disasters, which are dangerous and even unacceptable for a person's stay. The paper proposes designs of mobile robots, which are based on new principles of their synthesis. In the performed studies, in addition to the latest patented designs of mobile robots, a strategy of active synthesis of a new class of mobile robots is proposed.

MODERN TRENDS IN TECHNICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

Целью статьи является анализ теоретико-методологической основы оценки уровня технико-технологического развития стран мира, а также выяснение его современных тенденций. На основе хронологии экономического развития показано периодическое изменение технологического лидерства отдельных стран мира. Выделена система показателей, по которым проводится диагностика места соответствующей страны в мировом технологическом пространстве, а также осуществлено прогнозирование тенденций ее развития на пути научно-технического прогресса в будущем. Используя мировые рейтинги общего объема внутренних затрат на науку, их долю в валовом внутреннем продукте страны, затраты на НИОКР в расчете на одного исследователя автор показывает положение отдельных стран по финансовому обеспечению технико-технологического развития. Научная новизна полученных результатов заключается в обосновании целесообразности применения метода оценивания позиций, достигнутых страной на пути технико-технологического развития. Формирование интегрального индикатора, отражающего как ее обеспеченность ресурсами для создания новых знаний, так и степень отдачи от их использования, позволяет использовать изменения в динамике мультипликативных процессов в качестве основы для оперативной оценки эффективности решений по управлению экономикой региона. такой подход к оценке технико-технологического развития позволяет получать более обстоятельную информацию, а также выявлять слабые места, на которых следует сосредоточиться государству для содействия научно-техническому прогрессу. The purpose of the article is to analyze the theoretical and methodological basis for assessing the level of technical and technological development of the countries of the world, as well as to clarify its current trends. The author shows a periodic change in the technological leadership of individual countries of the world based on the chronology of economic development. The system of indicators is highlighted, on the basis of which the diagnostics of the place of the corresponding country in the world technological space is carried out, as well as the forecasting of the tendencies of its development on the way of scientific and technological progress in the futuret. The article, based on world rankings of the total volume of domestic expenditures on science, their share in the country's gross domestic product, R&D expenditures per researcher, describes the position of individual countries in terms of financial support for technical and technological development. The scientific novelty of the obtained results consists in the justification of the expediency of applying the method of assessing the positions achieved by the country on the path of technical and technological development through the formation of an integral indicator reflecting both its endowment with resources for creating new knowledge and the degree of return from their use. Such an approach to assessing technical and technological development allows obtaining more detailed information, as well as identifying weaknesses on which the state should focus in order to promote scientific and technological progress.

Scant Penetration of Women in the Fourth Industrial Revolution : An Old Problem in a New Context

A study of every industrial revolution would be incomplete without any reference to the scant inclusion of women in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector. It remains true that a plethora of women are still not extricated from the obfuscation of social inclusion in the technological space. The gender inequalities in ICT remains a perennial problem, consequently prompting a new debate. Closely related to this debate is the scant rate of the inclusion of women in the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). This article opines that men have more freedom to utilise technological devices than women due to, inter alia, limited knowledge regarding technological infrastructure. The article is conceptual in nature and relied on critical scholarship review as a methodological approach to obtain insights. The objective is to argue that gender inequality in ICT is most likely to persist in the 4IR. Furthermore, it provides a summation and conclusion on the 4IR.

PROSPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR BUSINESS STRUCTURES UNDER CONDITIONS OF UNITED RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGICAL SPACE OF THE UNION STATE OF BELARUS AND RUSSIA FORMATION

The article is devoted to the study of problems and identification of main lines of government support for business entities in the context of the formation of the united research and technological space of the Union State of Belarus and Russia. In order to solve the identified problems of business entities’ development and cooperation, priority areas of government support for business structures in the Union State have been listed. For this purpose, identified features of the unified research and technological space of the Union State were taking into account.