presentation of APPAU on the meeting with CSIA 13th of April 2022

2. Association of Industrial Automation of Ukraine
End users
Control a&
IT SI
Global
vendors
Local IE
manufactures
Universities
Startups
OEM
standards
talents
innovation
funds
export
Industry
4.0
Export &
Internationalization
Technical
Committee 185
Integration
EU
Matchmaking
platform
Regional clusters
EAM
Center 4.0 / DIH
Council 4.0
(policy-making)
250 members in Industry 4.0
52 members
Key roles
• Ecosystem & collective
assets building
• Coordination and
orchestration
• Standards setup
• Internationalization

3. APPAU is positioning ‘between’ manufacturing and Digital
communities in Ukraine with clear focus on Advanced Technologies

4. Key activities
1. Strategic development of the
national Industry 4.0
2. Market education
3. Accounting and promoting local
innovators 4.0
4. Standardization (ISO / IEC)
5. International cooperation (DIH,
EU4Digital, ECCP etc)
6. Regional cluster development and
smart-specialization
7. Sustainable and circular
manufacturing
100+
https://land4developers.com/

5. Current situation
Huge economic losses
• Decreasing of productive capacities: 30-50%
• Relocation of workers: 30% +
• Agri-culture: 30%+ crops were not planted
• Economic activity declined up t0 50% (1st month)
• Blocked export (sea & airlines ways)
• Huge destruction of infrastructure and cities
General losses: $500 -1,000 billion US

6. Situation with APPAU members on March-22
• Huge mobilization of resources to help Armed Forces of Ukraine and to
Territorial defense. IT-companies were as well members of cyber-war.
• 80% of staff is relocated in safe regions (many women are in EU)
• Subsidiaries of international vendors left countries but they start to
come back on April
• Most of Distributors & System Integrators did not stop works (with
exception of combat zones)
• Three biggest issues of market players
• Logistic and disruption in supply chain (trend is decreasing)
• New orders (demand is increasing)
• Aid to families affected by combats (steady)

7. The community needs
1. Orders (outsourcing, sub-contracting, remote works)
2. Integration into international projects (like EU I4MS / Horizon
Europe consortium, Standardization works etc)
3. Humanitarian and financial aid to members affected by the war
(Mariupole, Kharkiv, Kyiv)

8. International cooperation and solidarity with Ukraine
Proposal #1 ‘Stop working in Russia’
• Siemens and Schneider Electric are still
there (cat. D ‘holding off investment … but
still working’)
• Join actions
• Appeal to vendors (APPAU appeal)
• Dissemination of information
• Addressing directly to C-level

9. International cooperation and solidarity with Ukraine
Proposal #2 ‘Emergency support during wartimes’
• Creation of a matchmaking space
• Free but coordinated
matchmaking
• Needs form UA community of
Industrial Automation (incl.
outsource base)
• Offers from professional of
different countries
• Integration of Ukrainian scientists
& developers into research and
development projects https://clustercollaboration.eu/content/eu-clusters-supporting-ukraine

10. International cooperation and solidarity with Ukraine
Proposal #3 ‘Preparing the future’ (after-war times)
• Create the community of
associations of Industrial
Automation that considers and
monitors
• Marchall plan for Ukraine
• New configuration of value chains
in Europan manufacturing /
infrastructure
• Projects of re-construction
• APPAU and other Ukrainian
business communities are ready
for cooperation

11. List of sources
• Response to the war challenges
• EU clusters support Ukraine
• Ukrainian communites appreal to leading international brands
• Post of A. Yurchak in Linkedin
• Industrial Automation and IT
• Web-site Land4developers
• Web-site APPAU
• Outsourcing database (by demand)