THE ROLE OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES IN THE CONTEXT OF INDUSTRY 4.0

Abstract

The article aims to develop a new model for the development of industry 4.0 that reveals cause-and-effect relationships and thereby increases the predictability and manageability of this process. The authors has compiled a structural equation model (SEM) based on the empirical experience of 45 of the most developed digital economies in the world in 2022, which has formed a systematic vision of industrial engineering 4.0 in the unity of quality management and the development of high-tech industrial enterprises. Based on the SEM model and the example of Russia, it has been proved that quality management 4.0 plays a central role in the development of high-tech industrial enterprises in developed digital economies. As a result, the article has developed a cyclical model of the development of industry 4.0, explaining the logical sequence and demonstrating the path of continuous development of industry 4.0. The novelty and value of the compiled cyclical model lies in the fact that it has proved for the first time the simultaneous existence of two previously considered alternative effects of industrial and manufacturing engineering 4.0: the effect of transition from quantity to quality and the effect of transition from quality to quantity. The theoretical significance of the model lies in the fact that for the first time it has structured the sequence of this process, by dividing it into two stages: the first is the stage of the initial launch of high-tech industries and the second is the stage of the subsequent development of industry 4.0. The authors’ model demonstrated that quality management 4.0 plays a key role in the development of high-tech industrial enterprises at the second stage, while at the first stage the role of quality 4.0 is insignificant. The practical significance is expressed in the fact that reliance on the cyclical model of development of industry 4.0 will improve the efficiency of management of industrial and manufacturing engineering 4.0, selecting the most effective management measures at each of the identified two stages of development of industry 4.0.