The coronavirus pandemic and related restrictions have forced a new look at the role of Industry 4.0. At two-month training webinars for representatives of the republic's industry, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan and QazIndustry, European experts from the Fraunhofer IPA Institute of Industrial Engineering and Automation (Germany) spoke about trends and prospects in this area. The newspaper "Kazakhstanskaya Pravda" published an interview with industry experts Steffen Hesping and Vladimir Elshov.