Industry 4.0

Digitalisation is one of the engines of economic growth that has an impact in all sectors. Preparing companies and employees for the digital transformation in the economy is the key to competitiveness. The Government of Hungary is determined to create more new, high value-added jobs through digitalisation than will be lost. An important condition for this is, on the one hand, the creation of high value-added digital jobs (ie the digitization of industry, agriculture, and the service sector) and, on the other hand, the systematic development of workers' digital skills.

The technological revolution in industrial production (digitalised production chains, robotics, automation, human-machine collaboration "cyber-physical systems", etc.) is commonly referred to as IPAR 4.0. This suggests that the current digital revolution is expected to transform industrial production to an extent that will be affected by previous industrial revolutions. Recently, a flagship project entitled “Development of Industry 4.0 Sample Applications” was launched to develop, demonstrate and develop: Industry 4.0 Sample Factories and an Industry 4.0 Technology Centre to support the development of domestic manufacturing SMEs, Industrial 4.0 production systems technology , increasing their openness to industrial automation and control solutions.

Industry 4.0 Platform

In May 2016, the Industry 4.0 National Technology Platform was established with the participation of the Ministry of National Economy and the Research Institute of Computer Science and Automation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences with the participation of about 40 enterprises, research institutes, organisations and educational institutions with domestic sites.

Irinyi plan

The main directions of the development of Hungarian industry are set out in the industrial strategy named after János Irinyi. The aim of the Irinyi Plan is to create the driving force for the long-term growth of the Hungarian economy. To modernize the structure of industrial production and move towards higher value-added production, we need to move to an innovation-driven economy, with industry relying on knowledge, research and development, higher education, and vocational training. One of the goals of the strategy is to increase the share of industrial production in the production of gross domestic product (GDP) to 30 percent by 2020.