Digital Transformation of Industry: A Model of Economic Efficiency of Introduction of Industrial Robots in Russia

One of the main components of Industry 4.0 is robotics, the task of which is to automate most production technological processes. Research of the Russian robotics market is conducted in the paper; its key parameters are identified: the growth rate, the volume of introduced industrial robots, and the density of introduced robots. The main financial indicators are analyzed. The prospects for the future development of the industrial robotics market are determined. Due to one of the reasons for the problems of introducing of industrial robots is their economic efficiency, a model based on the method of the total cost of ownership is proposed in the paper. Based on the modeling of capital and operating costs of robotic systems compared to the cost of reducing jobs, this model allows to determine the economic feasibility of the introduction of industrial robots, depending on the size of the Russian industrial enterprise.