Analisis of Ukraine’s industrial enterprises: direction of development

The object of research is the industrial enterprises of Ukraine and the directions of their modern transformation in the conditions of post-industrial development of the economy. The paper presents the results of a study of the "industrial enterprise" concept. The differences in the perception of an industrial enterprise by various classification systems are disclosed. It is shown how a change in the term “industrial products” to the concept of “intermediate products” forms the modern environment for the production activity of enterprises. The study used methods of analysis, comparison and generalization. The place of Ukrainian industry in world ratings is shown. Since world industry is influenced by two different polar factors – the development of the economy of a particular state and the development of the territory – the main task of industrial capital is determination of the original and promising directions of development. The author investigates the state and determined the prospects for the development of individual groups of industrial enterprises in Ukraine. The theoretical significance of the work is revealed in the systematization of statistical data that illuminate the threats and opportunities for changes in the external environment of an industrial enterprise. The dynamics of the modern redistribution of the significance of individual groups of enterprises in the mining and processing industries is shown. It is noted that the service industry is becoming the main consumer of intermediate products. Therefore, the requirements for industrial enterprises are changing, there is a need for a transition from technological updating of production to the formation of cyber-physical systems of the digital economy. The scientific novelty of the work is determination of the development prospects of the mining and processing industries for related types of economic activity The practical value of the work is in an attempt to formulate concrete ways of differentiation and diversification of industrial enterprises. Taking into account strategic changes in the external environment of industrial enterprises, related groups and classes of types of economic activity are identified, the products of which will be potential sales markets, and hence the prospects for the development of an industrial enterprise.