There is already one industrial robot for every seventieth worker in the domestic manufacturing industry

“We see that the SME sector is finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with the rising cost of labor. The minimum wage increased by 15% from January, and if we consider the official inflation rate of 17.6%, workers can expect an even higher increase in many places. If we add to this the labor shortage affecting many industries, automation seems to be one of the most obvious solutions”,

began András Markos, managing owner of Hesse Trade Kft.

The company, which was originally active in the printing industry, founded its robot business more than a year ago, and in cooperation with integrators, they implement projects related to industrial robots, robotic arms, and automatic forklifts in a wide variety of sectors; because robotization affects all sectors, even if not equally. In a 2018 study, McKinsey&Company already calculated that 82% of the tasks of production workers in Hungary can be automated, and this ratio is 74% in the field of material handling and transportation. According to András Markos, robots will not transform domestic workplaces to such an extent within the foreseeable future, but they will appear in all industries in the next 5 years, mainly because automation is also among the basic expectations in the current EU support cycle.