Hungarian automotive industry: week 19 2018 edition
Labour shortage is posing a massive challenge in nearly all sectors, and even a handsome salary is often insufficient to attract an adequate number of workers. Let’s recap what last week brought in Hungary’s automotive sector.
We interviewed Gysev Cargo Zrt. CEO János Boda on their customers’ requirements in the field of railway transport. The company transports Open engines in a unique configuration between Szentgotthárd and Germany.
Although including daily allowances, truck drivers could earn as high as €2,000 a month, labour shortage is still posing a considerable challenge in the sector.
The Industry 4.0 Sample Factories project has finally launched: in just a month, more than 300 applications were registered, with currently 60 SMEs meeting the edibility conditions.
Participants will be able to attend 12 events at 6 different venues until the end of June, where representatives of large businesses will share their experiences in the field of Industry 4.0.
According to Gábor Tevesz, assistant dean at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), it is time we caught up with Germany, where half of computer engineers are women.
Tevesz says that girls are heavily underrepresented in technical fields, the stereotype that this is a “manly” profession is still alive and well, despite the fact that there is no aspect of the it that women would not be capable of executing just as well as representatives of the other sex.
“In terms of materials, dimensions and bearing capacity, we are capable of the production of about 20,000 different combinations of foot consoles,” Viktor Agárdi, CEO of Fath Components Kft., told us in connection with their potential in frame connector products.
“The majority of business engaged in the production of similar products are not engaged exclusively in connectors but also in aluminium profiles, which makes their connector division a side-business. As opposed to that, we are specialists of these products,” Agárdi added.
Suzuki’s plant in Esztergom was established 25 years ago, on 7th May 1993, in the presence of then prime minister József Antall and company owner Osamu Suzuki.
Oliver Schatz received a medal for his achievements in autonomous technologies. The CEO and senior vice president of Robert Bosch Kft. was awarded the Wahrmann Mór Medal at the 189th general assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
