Hungarian automotive industry: week 13 2019 edition
Dual education, wages, development. Let’s recap what the 13th week of the year brought in Hungary’s automotive sector.
This year, ITK Holding is planning to deliver 100-200 buses manufactured in Debrecen. The company is already adding the final touches on 50 vehicles.
The first four students who joined Audi Hungaria Zrt. and Széchenyi István University’s joint dual vehicle engineering BSc programme back in 2015 have successfully graduated.
“Dual education is an elite form of training, since students have to meet dual requirements, which can only be achieved by the best. Although classroom requirements are the same as in standard training, they also have to meet the standards their host companies expect from them,” Ferenc Hartung, head of the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Pannonia.
Siemens AG member Evosoft Hungary Kft. is building a 20,000sqm software development centre in Budapest.
Waberer’s has reported losses, keeping the company from paying dividends after the previous fiscal year.
The Hungarian Association of Logistics, Procurement and Inventory Management (HALPIM) has carried out a survey on logistician wages, which concluded that the average monthly salary in this field amounts to HUF 600,000.
An axle load weighing station has been installed on the M30 motorway.
“Manufacturing must take care of continuous tracking. It is not sufficient to just use a stopwatch to time a hundred times how long it takes to take a part from the warehouse to the production line, because the hundred and first time will surely have different conditions. In fact, the timing itself is what changes the process: if there is someone with a stopwatch overlooking the process, the forklift operator will also pay more attention,” Dr. László Györgypál, an expert in industrial positioning, told our site in an interview.
Although robotics are not driven by the automotive industry on a global scale, a robots distributor with Hungarian presence said last week that 2018 was their highest-selling year in the automotive sector.
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