Digital transformation of management of industrial enterprises: application of unmanned aerial vehicles

The article substantiates the need for the transition of industrial enterprises to a digital business management basis. The analysis of literary sources on the problems of digital transformation of industrial enterprises, which showed the relevance of research in the field of digitalization of industrial enterprise management systems and allowed to formulate the main technological trends of doing business in the framework of Industry 4.0. As a result of the analysis, it was established that one of the technological trends in industry is the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Using the construction industry as an example, the possibilities of using unmanned aerial vehicles, which have become a highly efficient IT technology, whose application range is wide enough: from monitoring the current situation and providing security at the facility to helping to carry out the most complex geodetic works on hard-to-reach facilities, are described. The work resulted in the formulation of the technological advantages of the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in industry, namely, the construction and implementation of an information model of an industrial facility (BIM), orthomosaic, and the creation of automated construction sites. Along with the advantages, the main difficulties of introducing robotic technologies in the industry have been identified.