ABSTRACT
Today, industrial digitalization and Industry 4.0 play an extremely important role as an innovation orientation for automotive manufacturing companies. This trend has only been reinforced by the COVID pandemic. Hungarian industrial players have an essential interest to reach a high level of development in keeping with the era and to be at the forefront of digitalization. However, the previous studies of the authors have shown that Hungarian SMEs, especially domestically owned ones, have encountered significant difficulties in this development path. In this paper, these reasons are explored by analyzing the views of automotive maintenance professionals using different methods. © 2022 IEEE.
ABSTRACT
Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 have been increasingly prevalent in the manufacturing sector since the mid-2010s, and the COVID19 pandemic has only strengthened this trend. However, there is a wide variation between companies in the degree of industrial digitalization adopted and the deployment context. This is particularly relevant in the case of the industrial maintenance sector, one of the business segments with the highest potential for digitization. This paper analyses the work environment by looking at the differences in the digitalization experiences of large domestically owned and international companies according to maintenance professionals in Hungary. The benefits and challenges of implementing Industry 4.0 will be examined, highlighting the differences between various types of companies. © 2022 IEEE.
ABSTRACT
One of the biggest recent innovation trends in the manufacturing industry is the use of Industry 4.0 tools and the introduction of various digitalization solutions. However, in 2020, the COVID19 pandemic significantly changed the way companies organize their day-to-day operations and the way they plan to innovate in their sector, in the near future. In this paper, we present the views of maintenance professionals in Hungarian automotive companies. We have compared the status of different types of enterprises. In particular, we looked at the differences in the status of these companies in terms of digitalization development. This allowed us to draw further conclusions.