EXPERT OPINION
What possibilities does digital
transformation offer?
In the coming decades, digitalisation will become one of the key
trends in the development of all markets. Today, digital technology is
used in many industries: from the space industry to consumer sales.
Audris Barcevicius,
President and CEO,
Siemens Central Asia
Аудрис Барцявичюс,
Президент «Сименс»
в Центральной Азии
The ability to model the production pro-
cess and create digital product twins de-
stroys the habitual business models and
gives the opportunity to create new ones.
The Internet of Things (IoT) connects de-
vices to a single network where data is col-
lected, processed and analyzed in a cloud
storage. The Internet of things allows you
to save time and achieve the main goal
– to analyze information in a timely man-
ner, draw conclusions and make important
decisions. In the coming years, all sectors
of industry will rely on solutions that are
based on data management, to improve
the quality and efficiency of their most
important assets.
Digitalisation allows you to create a dis-
tributed power system from several sta-
tions to a single network with thousands
of renewable energy sources with the abil-
ity to receive information from networks
and manage the process online.
Billions of mechanisms create huge amounts
of data, linking the real and virtual worlds. It
is impossible to imagine a modern company
whose activities would not be affected by
digitalisation. Today the question is not
whether to be in a trend or not, the main
thing is not to miss the opportunities
that are opened with the help of digital
technologies. For companies that do not
participate in digital transformation this
means losing competitiveness, and there-
fore the market. Digital technologies allow
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expanding the portfolio of projects, open-
ing new market niches, saving time and
costs, and also focusing on maintaining
the highest quality standards.
In May, Siemens Kazakhstan held Digitali-
sation Days, which brought together busi-
ness leaders, experts and specialists from
various fields. Through voting, the partici-
pants of the events had the opportunity to
express their views on the potential of the
digital transformation. The main potential
benefit of digital transformation based on
the results of the survey were – efficiency,
speed and profit. In other words, digitali-
sation can significantly reduce the time to
market, as well as the costs of production
and maintenance, while maintaining high
quality standards.
The panel discussions that took place dur-
ing the events addressed issues related to
the possibilities of digital transformation.
Participants in the discussions noted the
importance of cyber security, the creation
of infrastructure and the training of per-
sonnel in the process of digital transfor-
mation. The topic of education was par-
ticularly affected, in view of the fact that,
according to experts, there is a need to
create an environment for supporting new
formats of education and the development
of innovations. Digital transformation will
create new jobs and specialties, but will
also require the adaptation of existing
skills to new technologies and processes.