This is what Handwerk 4.0 means for your business: definition, examples and studies

Questions and answers on the topic of Crafts 4.0

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What does the term Handwerk 4.0 mean?

The term "Handwerk 4.0" refers to the digitalization of the skilled trades. The Internet plays a central role in this. This not only changes craft products, but also work processes on the part of the workforce and company management.

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What examples are there of Crafts 4.0?

Digitization, and with it Crafts 4.0, is optimizing almost all areas of the crafts business, from administration to services and products. There are countless examples. Some of them are:

• Digital working time recording
• Automated invoicing
• Digital Dispatching planning
• Receiving information in real-time on the construction site
• Use of digital machines such as drones
• Digital recording of inventories
• Automated reJobing of materials

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Which craft has a future?

Craft occupations are evolving as a result of digitization. (New) occupational profiles that benefit from the innovations of new technologies have particularly good prospects for the future. These include electronics technicians in the fields of automation technology, information and telecommunications ^technology1 and the new apprenticeship occupation of electronics technician for building systems integration.

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What do farm managers need to consider when digitizing their farm?

In Job for the digitization of the business to succeed, business managers must actively take care of the development. This includes not only procuring the appropriate technologies, but also instructing the employees so that the innovations can be used.

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Crafts have always kept up with the times and have always adopted new methods to improve craftsmanship over the centuries. Today, Tradesmen and women benefit above all from digital innovations. The term Handwerk 4.0 describes precisely this further development through increasing digitalization. However, this trend is sometimes accompanied by the fear of losing one's job. However, against the backdrop of the massive shortage of skilled workers in Germany, this concern is largely unfounded. On the contrary, everyone is benefiting greatly from the many opportunities that digitization offers the skilled trades.

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Digitization in the skilled crafts sector: how employees and managers benefit

The process of increasing digitization, which some still observe with skepticism, is already benefiting a large number of businesses on a daily basis. No wonder, then, that two-thirds of all respondents to a study by the digital association Bitkom and the German Confederation of Skilled Crafts (ZDH) see digitization first and foremost as an opportunity for the skilled crafts sector. After all, digitization means very concrete things for the skilled trades: 

• Simplified work processes
• Relief and increase in productivity
• Optimization of workflows in the company
• More reach in recruiting
• New sales opportunities

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Do you want to get started immediately in Crafts 4.0? Then simply use the Meisterwerk app for optimized business organization in just a few minutes.

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The future belongs to Tradesmen and women with digital skills. According to the study by ZHD and Bitkom, skilled workers who are familiar with the operation of relevant technologies are in demand on the labor market as never before. As a result, skilled trades occupations and, above all, business organization are undergoing lasting change. 

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Business organization 4.0

According to the study by ZHD and Bitkom, one popular digital application is smart software for optimizing operational processes. 12.5 percent of all companies surveyed use such software to manage work hours according to project or Job status. The proportion of companies that rely on digital communication is significantly higher:

• Homepage
• Google Maps entry
• Social networks
• Rating platforms

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are being used more and more to meet customer requirements. 

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The positive trend also continues in the equipment of the "digital office". Popular software helps with the:

• Job Management
• Document organization
• Personnel planning

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So the advantages are obvious. But what about possible disadvantages?

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Disadvantages: Juggle multiple programs and pay high fees

This means that plant managers currently have a large number of different programs in use. This quickly becomes confusing. In addition, the license fees for the software rise into the triple-digit range every month. The Meisterwerk app, which combines many practical functions in one application, is simpler and less expensive.

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Make your business a true role model in terms of Handwerk 4.0 by relying on digital apps that make everyday life easier for you and your workforce. With the Meisterwerk app, you ensure clarity in your business - always and everywhere. You manage processes, Jobs, deadlines and your team successfully - whether on the computer, cell phone or tablet:

• Digital Dispatching planning
• Information exchange in real-time
• Mapping of own workflows and processes

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