Industry 4.0 projects' background and our experiences at the wood industrial manufactories

The purpose of the applied IT solutions during the operation of factories is to support the manufacturing workflow and the strategic decision making of company managers. We reviewed the industrial techniques in nowadays and the newest trends ("Industrial Internet", "Industry 4.0") which are based on the idea of "Internet of things". In our research, we have analyzed the economical background, the multinational and local platforms of Industry 4.0 and the new IT techniques, which support Industry 4.0. In the second part of our paper, we have investigated two case studies, which are related to the wood industrial companies. We have summarized the company's problems, environments, and given possible solutions for their problem