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Figure 1. Countries as the past of 4th Indusial Resolution (data was adopted 
from Mohamand et al., 2018) 
SMLC's mission and vision are almost the same as Industry 4.0, to hold 
“fundamental shift in manufacturing processes toward demand
-dynamic economics, 
flexible factories, and demand-driven supply chain service enterprises of United States 
through IoT and ICTs. Furthermore, France's Industrie de Futur concentrates on nine 
primary markets: sustainable cities, new resources, transportation, ecological mobility, 
health care, intelligent objects, intelligent food, digital economy, digital trust and 
intelligent food. Korea's approach mirrors Industry 4.0, with automation and smart 
factory concept (ibid). The same initiatives are made in Asian counties - 
‘Made in India 
2025’ and ‘Made in China 2025’. These programs started by the government to upgrade 
the cou
ntry’s manufacturing sector and enable it to advance like countries such as 
Germany with lower labour costs.
United States
–
Smart 
Manufacturing Leadership 
Coalition (SMLC) 
Japan
–
Industrial Value Chain 
Initiative (IVCI) 
United Kingdom
–
Digital 
Transformation 
France 
–
Industrie de 
Futur 
India
–
Made 
in India 2025 
China
–
Made in 
China 2025 
South Korea 
–
Manufacturing 
Innovation 3.0 
Germany
–
Industry 4.0 
Netherlands -
Smart Industry 

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Intelligent manufacturing: Prospects in Uzbekistan 
Uzbekistan is a resource-rich, doubly-landlocked country, strategically located in 
the heart of Central Asia with population of about 32 million in 2018 (UNDP, 2019). 
Main sectors of economy are agriculture, accounts 21.37% of GDP in 2018 (Asian 
deployment Bank, 2019) and industry manufacturing1 37.69% of GDP in 2018 (ibid). 
According to investigations of the Center of Economic Research (2014), the ultimate 
development goal for the Uzbekistan is to join the group of upper middle-income 
countries by 2030. 
Since its independence in 1991, the attraction of advanced technologies, foreign 
investments and modern management styles were set as the priority policy to the 
government. It could be seen that industrial sector has shifted its focus from capital 
intensive basic industry to developing manufacturing sector that produce goods of 
higher technological level and contribute to employment growth. Altogether, it is 
leading to an increased share of industry in GDP of the country. 
Uzbekistan has a high potential for practical demonstration of improved 
productivity and other economic indicators at this stage of development. They depend 
on the level of technological development and planning of ICT projects in business 
practice. However, “due to lack of initiatives to introduce ICT at large enterprises, 
organizations and business associations, improvement of technological processes and 
management systems sows down.”
In this regard, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat 
Mirziyoyev signed a decree «
On Uzbekistan’s Development Strategy
». The document 
has approved Uzbekistan’s Five
-Area Development Strategy for 2017-2021 which was 
developed following comprehensive study of topical issues, analysis of the current 
legislation, law enforcement practices, the best international practices, and following 
public discussion. He noted «introduction of ICT in the economy, social sphere and 
management» plays crucial role in economic growth and liberalization, in the third area 
of Development Strategy2. 
The digitalization technologies with involvement of ICTs are promoting Industry 
4.0 can boost manufacturing industry of Uzbekistan, thus leading to re-
industrialization, resulting in increased product quality and technological content, 
improved process performance and higher work quality. Kambarov et al (2018) 
declared in the research, Industry 4.0 strategy may play an important role in reaching 
economic development of Uzbekistan. However, Smart Manufacturing paradigm is not 
fully formed in Uzbek manufacturing systems yet. Some of the technology advances 
representing the basis for Industry 4.0 are already used in manufacturing systems of 
the country (ibid). Best example can be automobile industry of Uzbekistan. Center of 
Economic Research (2014) mentioned that additive manufacturing systems and 
autonomous robots have been implemented, as well as ICT solutions have been 
adopted in automobile industry. Another example (Kambarov et al., 2018), the GM-
Powertrain system consists of flexible production lines and automated machining 
systems for cylinder block, cylinder head and crankshaft manufacturing assisted by 
computers. 
1
Includes textiles, food processing, machine building, metallurgy, mining, hydrocarbon extraction, and chemicals; 
2
Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On the 
strategy of action for the further development of the 
Republic of Uzbekistan” // Collected Legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2017, No. 6, article # 70

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Technological (Ehlers et al 2016) development through ICTs, as the most 
important factor and an important prerequisite of general development encompasses 
the development and application of new technologies and imposes the need for 
restructuring of existing, as well as designing new plants with new settings. In this 
paper, the importance of ICTs and development of Industry 4.0 concept were 
presented. Some gaps between current situation and Industry 4.0 requirement were 
identified. The research showed that involvement of ICTs and Industry 4.0 concept at 
industrial enterprise are worth to invest.