THE SECOND FRONT OF UKRAINE AND THE HORIZONS OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

Abstract

The content of Ukraine's transition to a new business model based on digital communications and additive manufacturing technologies is analyzed. The mentioned transition takes place simultaneously during three industrial revolutions: the third, fourth and fifth (Industries 3.0, 4.0, 5.0), each of which has its own logical focus and solves its own tasks. Industry 3.0 is associated with the prevention of the global environmental crisis thanks to the transition to alternative energy and additive manufacturing methods. Industry 4.0 is aimed at the mass introduction of cyber-physical systems designed to solve the problem of a significant increase in the information complexity of operational processes during the transition to a new economy. Industry 5.0 solves the issue of social development of a person's personality, which becomes a necessity in the course of these processes. The concept of additive economy is revealed as a system that provides production needs using only the useful component of material natural resources. Sectors of economic activity, which can conditionally be attributed to additive manufacturing (alternative energy, IT sector, impression economy, health care business, etc.) are characterized. Indicators characterizing the dynamics of changes in economic systems in Ukraine are given. The directions of restructuring processes during the transition to the additive economy are analyzed: restructuring of the production cycle, restructuring of energy production processes, restructuring of economic relations, changes in the social structure of production, etc.