Hungarian automotive industry: week 46 2018 edition
Engine production, facility management, collaborative robots. Let´s recap what last week brought in Hungary’s automotive industry.
Beginning his training for the assembly of Audi engines 25 years ago in the plant’s first facility that had been bought off from the former carriage works of Győr, Imre Csendes still works on the assembly line, in final inspection.
As one of the company’s oldest employees, he cannot tell how many engine variants he has worked on, but the assembly of the very first engine stands out vividly in his memory. The Audi plant in Győr is an employer of generations, as Imre’s son also works at the company.
Rába’s consolidated sales revenue amounted to HUF 34.69bln from January through September and HUF 10.21 billion in Q3 2018.
In October, car registrations in the European Union decreased year-on-year after the new emission measuring procedure taking effect in September. In Hungary, 10,923 new cars were registered in October.
Facility management firm Leadec is already in talks with BMW regarding the car maker’s investment in Debrecen.
Hungary’s GDP has reportedly grown by 5 percent.
According to the Hungarian government, students are faced with too many options in their career choices, which makes their decisions harder than they should be. Thus, the government has plans to simplify the system.
“Company executives have realised that if they outsource facility management and maintenance tasks, not only can they reduce their burdens but also their liability. Should a problem arise, we can’t afford any downtime on the production line. There is one hour available for repair. If production stops, we have to take responsibility for the production outage as well as consequential damages,” Ferenc Dákai, CEO of Leadec Magyarország Kft., said in an interview.
Collaborative robots will become an everyday product, simple household objects, OnRobot, a Hungarian robot manufacturing company with a global presence, claims. The company’s end-of-arm tools are compatible with any manufacturer’s robot arms, and OnRobot strives to expand their fields of application with their products.
Hays Hungary has inaugurated its new recruitment office at Bank Center, Budapest. Applicants are interviewed in separate interview rooms by the company’s HR professionals. Company associates say employees are the most likely to change jobs in February-March.
The Győr-based site of electronics and lighting solutions manufacturer Melecs has donated €5,000 to the First Lions Club of Győr (Első Győri Lions Klub).
Aircraft and parts manufacturer Diehl Aviation has established an engineering laboratory at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Debrecen, boasting 12 design stations and a 3D printer.
“So far, we have built 7 racing cars, each improving upon the previous in its characteristics. This is how we have progressed from a 374-kilogramme, 36kW metal frame bodied car to the latest, 225-kilogramme, all-wheel-drive, 140kW monocoque racer.
"We achieved our best results in Germany in our first year, where we came in first in the Cost Report category. We have a second place from the Czech Republic that we achieved in 2016 with our business plan,” Veronika Czakó, member of a Bratislava-based Formula Student team, told us in an interview.
Autopro has sat down with students from different university teams to discuss the topic of one of the most challenging aspects of managing a vehicle building team, sponsoring. The conclusion: teams must knock on every door that could potentially lead to new sponsors.
Digitalisation could boost the Hungarian economy by €9 billion by 2025, a fresh study highlights.
Hungary has joined the top 20 vehicle exporting countries, which account for 90 percent of global vehicle export.
