Ukrainian national project
BUILDING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ROADMAP IN AGRI-FOOD
ABOUT PROJECT
The project goal is to build digital transformation roadmap for Agri-Food sectors. Enterprises and market players go through 3 main stages as building strong business-cases, innovation forum and the final sessions of development roadmaps.
All stages are done in the collaboration of decision-makers of end users with experts of professional communities and Centers of Industry 4.0 in Ukraine. Project initiators are Association of Industrial Automation in Ukraine (APPAU) and association «AgriTech Ukraine». Technology partners are cathedra of industrial automation and IT from National Food Universities from Kyiv and Odessa. Many other partners from international vendors and leading integrators are involved into the project.
ADVANTAGES AND DELIVERABLES FOR AGRI-FOOD END USERS
he project has a set of unique value proposition that are for the fist time available for Ukrainian agri-food sectors
Collaborative Platform
The project changes the dominative approach from separate and narrow development ‘only for me’ to true collaboration of professional from different segments, their exchange of best practices, shared knowledge and common specification of current status-quo vs challenges.
Complete Industry Benchmarking Analysis
Project participants will be surveyed with regards to best practices in digital development in Ukraine as well as abroad. The benchmarking report as we did it last year for Machine-builders will be available for all participants.
1st Version of Innovator Landscape Specified to Agri-Food
We shall do it through the screening and award of best product and solutions in Ukraine. Foreign providers are invited as well.
Building of Common DX roadmaps for Specific Sectors of Agri-Food
Enterprises can profit from this tool to prepare its own roadmap. They will be equipped with complete ‘toolkit’ with regard to best practices from leading worldwide enterprises.
Personal Development and Skills Improvement
Chief of Automation and IT department, CTO will as well largely profit from many ‘technology transfer’ sessions that are multiples through the project. Round tables, online exchanges, webinars, group meeting, strategic sessions, - all that done with best market professionals will serve to your strategic development!
PROJECT APPROACH
The methods of innovation as Hackathons, Incubators or Accelerators are already on its way in Ukraine. But typically done in pure ‘IT-style’ they do not exactly match to end users expectation in Manufacturing.
Hackathons and Incubators mix up young startups and mature firms and so far are not interesting to last ones. Corporate accelerators need strong expert support and careful preparation that is not obvious for SMB. But even for big holding they lack expertise and deep understanding of new technologies together with industry knowledge.
The deep issue of industrial innovators in Ukraine is total absence of specialized in manufacturing incubators or technology parks, or other R&D centers with public access. That is why results of mentioned above methods of discovering and nurturing innovations are quite limited and often not relevant of industries expectations. Typical they serve just to support of young startups but do not match to industrial demands of innovations.
Our project considers another approach that is more specified to goals of mid-long term innovative development. Building digital transformation roadmap (DT roadmap) we will follow several important steps that make strong foundation for each Agri-Food end user. These steps include careful design of your business cases, discovering the most relevant innovators, development program for you as a technical leader, many deep discussions and learning, and all these done in collaborative approach.
Finally, we want to extend the common understanding of such innovation projects by putting all project participants into global context of innovation technology in Agri-Food. We believe that Industry 4.0 is not just about technologies. It is about a strategic re-think of how enterprises develop their new capabilities, how they measure and interpret data and how they collaborate in fluid, fast changing and global context.
Therefore, the Industry DT roadmap is a primary tool for each enterprise in Agri-Food. It is able to quickly profile your innovative, investment and technical strategies and align them to best world practices, but with respect of Ukrainian realities and maturity level.
PROJECT EXPERT
Viktor Yehorov
PhD, the chief od Laboratory of robotics and mechatronics «MiroNaft» from Odessa State Academy of Food industry. The 1st Center 4.0 has been created here. «Mironaft» also represents one of the biggest FabLab in Europe. Laboratory has the strong set of assets to lead R&D works in the field of Industrial automation, Robotics, Mechatronics and IT.
Oleksandr Pupena
PhD, head of the Industrial Automation cathedra in National University of Food industry, He has 10+ experience of practical implementation of control system in Food. Oleksandr manages groups in TC 185 as Integration OT-IT and batch processes. He is also lecturer of several courses such as industrial networks, HMI/PLC, and he is recognized promoter of technologies Industry 4.0 on Ukrainian market.
Oleksandr Yurchak
General director of APPAU. Alexandre has more 25 years of experience in Industrial Automation and IT, engineering and machine building area. He is the main strategist and leader of APPAU in the field of strategic planning and development, including the methodology of DX roadmap. He manages several expert groups as Technical Committee 185 «Industrial Automation». He is the author of many articles, blogs and policy papers of national level.
Maksim Romanov
CTO in APPAU, the consultant of Belgian company Bright Eye (MES Solution Provider). He has15+ years of experience in development and implementation of industrial Control and IT system in different industries. Maksim is ex-director of Industrial Automation department on big metallurgy plant in Ukraine. He is laso the best APPAU & TC 185 expert in the fields of OT-IT integration, MES and Automation ML.
Grygorii Shchepanyk
The founder of the Ukrainian Logistics Community (ULC), educational project Digital Lean Kombinat, co-founder of ABM Cloud, BPGrow, Integro Systems and SmartLine Technologies. More than 12 years experience in projects including system integration, consulting on operational efficiency, implementation of analytical systems, implementation of IoT and other innovative solutions. During last 5 years focused on improving efficiency in logistics and manufacturing. Organizer of logistics meetings and conferences, and from 2019 on business excellence.
Yuri Petruk
Director of AgTech Ukraine. Yuriy has 11 years of experience in the field of technology and services for Agri-Food. He is active member if the national start-up community, national committee in charge of digital and export policies.
Maxim Tyutyunnyk
Maxim has 10+ years of experience working as Chief engineer and Chief Technocal Officer in the UKranian subsidiaries of Coca-cola, Danon as well as in Roshen. He has also more then 15+ working as automation engineer. Maxim is certified auditor by ISO / FSSC 22000:2017
Volodymyr Vargola
He has more than 10 years of business development experience within various projects in Ukraine, United Kingdom, Norway, Hungary, Czech Republic, engaged in consulting on the implementation of digital solutions for companies. Since the end of 2018 he has been taking part in the comprehensive program for managers on the edge of management, technology and economics at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), which is in top 10 educational institutions in the world. Within the program, he is involved in the digital transformation project for companies in the food industry.
