Hungarian automotive industry: week 17 2019 edition
Győr-based Audi plant pays bonus to employees, amounting to two months’ worth of salaries. Read our recap of what last week brought in Hungary’s automotive industry to find out why the plant’s workers remain unhappy.
The Audi Hungaria workers’ union considers the bonus Audi is paying to its employees too low – they believe the bonus is calculated unfavourably for the workers.
Year after year, the Mercedes plant in Kecskemét holds a competition for engineer students from local universities. This year’s event continued to line up challenging tasks: the winning team had to be familiar with gyroscopic tracking systems.
Metrikont Kft. manufactures connector sets based on individual requirements for various industrial applications. Each set of connectors are packaged by hand, and service quality is ensured by continued inspections.
Specializing in electronic devices, National Instruments has been present in Debrecen since 2001. The company is currently looking to expand its supplier base with Hungarian partners.
Lufthansa has begun recruiting employees for its Miskolc service centre, where it will perform aircraft engine repair.
Ten new Flirt motor trains has been delivered to GYSEV’s railway fleet. The aluminium bodywork of the motor trains has been partially manufactured in Hungary, at Stadler’s Szolnok assembly plant.
The Budapest Neutron Centre is capable of nearly all testing methods that are crucial in the automotive industry, including wear, ageing, precipitates, structural analysis of alloys, flow, internal stress and elemental analysis.
BME and Continental signed a partnership agreement back in February, with the aim to develop autonomous technologies. Hungarian researchers are investigating accident-free mobility with deep learning methods.
Many young people demand high initial wages because they are no aware of the true value of their work, and they do not receive guidance from the right sources.
Dr. Miklós Kuczmann, the youngest professor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is conducting research in Győr: the professor of Széchenyi István University has plans make accomplishments in the field of electrical engineering.
