Perspectives of Industry 4.0 development in Poland - preliminary research results

Over the last few years, the fourth industrial revolution has attracted practices and academia worldwide, however there are still many gaps related to the Industry 4.0. In the presented paper, there was assumed, that there are key companies’ competences, which are essential for the Industry 4.0 development. Therefore, it was examined, if those competences are important for companies, which have not introduced Industry 4.0, yet. If there is cohesion in perception of those competences, the perspective of the Industry 4.0 introduction in polish companies is positive, what may indicate readiness to that concept realization. Otherwise, the perspective is pessimistic. The main aim of the presented research, was an attempt to outline the perspective of developing the concept of Industry 4.0 in Poland, in terms of key company’s competences. The indirect aim was to point out the direction of Polish companies' development towards the Industry 4.0 concept. In research there was used the questionnaire survey method, conducted on randomly selected group of Polish companies. Findings of this paper can be used as the basis for future research.