Their flexibility and ability to respond quickly to changes, being less dependent on the human factor, has made these companies more competitive. It turns out that companies with a high degree of digitalization, automation and robotization of their production and service processes are less affected by the pandemic than those based on the traditional forms of their implementation. This process is currently gaining momentum, and the pandemic caused by the SARSCovid-19 coronavirus has accelerated it even further. The digital transformation of the global economy is closely linked to the introduction of new technologies and is referred to as Industry 4.0. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.įunding: This publication was funded by the statutory research performed at Silesian University of Technology, Department of Production Engineering, Faculty of Organization and Management (BK-273/ROZ3/2021) and by the statutory research performed at Department of Safety Engineering, Faculty of Mining, Safety Engineering and Industrial Automation (BKM-500/RG3/2021).Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Received: Accepted: JPublished: July 22, 2021Ĭopyright: © 2021 Brodny, Tutak. PLoS ONE 16(7):Įditor: Mehdi Keshavarz-Ghorabaee, Gonbad Kavous University, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN This increases the chances of success of joint ventures and building a sustainable European community based on the latest technologies.Ĭitation: Brodny J, Tutak M (2021) Assessing the level of digitalization and robotization in the enterprises of the European Union Member States. The designated assessment and similarity between countries creates such opportunities, also in terms of building an effective policy to support these processes by the EU. Due to the immensely diverse EU-27 economy, such a huge undertaking as the digital transformation process requires building logical internal "digital coalitions". The result of this research was the division of the EU-27 countries into groups, also taking into account the size of studied enterprises. The adopted indicators allowed for the analysis of similarity between the EU-27 countries in terms of digitalization, using the Kohonen’s networks. The analysis looked at the size of enterprises and was performed independently for small, medium and large enterprises. Based on the adopted criteria and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution method, these countries were divided into four classes in terms of the level of digitalization.
An empirical analysis was conducted using 16 determinants which describe the digitalization in a sample of 27 EU countries. The article presents the results of the assessment of the level of digitalization of enterprises in the EU-27 countries. In order for these actions to be effective, it is necessary to diagnose the current level of digitalization in the EU-27countries. The significance of digitalization for this development is appreciated by the EU-27. One of the main reasons for the dynamic global economic development observed in recent years is the process of digitalization, referred to as Industry 4.0.
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