Robotization and artificial intelligence: the ways to increase labor productivity were discussed at the RUSSIA EXPO

On May 8, an expert panel dedicated to the results of the national project "Labor Productivity", as well as to the fulfillment of the tasks voiced in the President's Address to the Federal Assembly was held.

Murat Kerefov, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of Russia, spoke about the prospects for increasing labor productivity, including through the introduction of digital solutions in production processes, as well as the principles of lean manufacturing.

"The task set by the President is quite ambitious, requiring a lot of coordinated efforts from all participants in the process. To date, the activities of the national project covered 20% of non-resource companies that can participate in the national project according to the criteria of revenue and industry affiliation - this is 6 thousand enterprises," stressed Murat Kerefov.

He noted that the agency has taken a number of measures to implement the plans. In particular, the tourism sector has come under the aegis of the national project. In addition, it is proposed to create sectoral centers of competence, to carry out more in-depth complex work at the enterprises themselves through the introduction of lean production principles, work with personnel, increasing the level of digitalization, technical re-equipment. Such projects will be implemented at about 900 enterprises in various sectors of the economy. This will make it possible to increase the output of products critical for the country by about 20%.

Murat Kerefov also spoke about the work of the portal "Efficiency.rf", the Industrial Development Fund and how the national project is being implemented in social institutions - medical and educational.

Nikolay Solomon, Director General of the ANO "Federal Center of Competences in the Field of Labor Productivity", in his speech dwelled upon innovations in the implementation of complex projects.

"There are three areas of possible potential for increasing labor productivity at enterprises. These are information technologies, artificial intelligence and robotization," Nikolai Solomon noted.

He emphasized that business owners themselves need to choose the directions they will implement at their enterprises, and the state, in turn, will help to establish a relationship between consumers and suppliers of information products.

Evgeny Tokarenko, Director of Digital Transformation of the ANO "Digital Performance Technologies", Zoya Viktorova, Deputy Head of the Department of Economic Policy and Development of Moscow, Alexei Yurtaev, Minister of Economy of the Krasnodar region, and Konstantin Saveliev, CEO of PLASTMARKET LLC also took part in the discussion.

The experts, in particular, analyzed the issues of joint work of the Russian Government, business and regions to improve the investment climate and the implementation of the Regional Investment Standard, including the mechanism of feedback from business.