Industry 4.0 presents huge opportunities for the realisation of sustainable production, but also many risks if companies do not respond adequately to modern trends. A new direction, Industry 5.0, is emerging, which promotes symbiosis of man with new technologies. The question is, therefore, whether it is possible to skip Industry 4.0 in the development line, or whether it is just a ‘novelty’ that existed. By Lubos Cerveny, Roman Sloup, Tereza Cervena, Marcel Riedl and Petra Palatova, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

The worldwide industrial development lasting several centuries culminated in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This phenomenon was presented in Germany at the Hannover Fair in Hannover in 2011 as a proposal for a new concept of German economic policy; and furniture production, as one of the most desirable needs of everyday life, is also undergoing this shift.