ICT in Food Processing Industry

Food industry is currently introducing fully automated production, similar to automotive industry for example. The food processing is a traditional part of processing industry of the Czech Republic, mostly due to the strategic nutritional needs of the population with the requirements for food quantity and quality. Information and communication technologies are today's phenomenon. It is a field developing highly dynamically and the development of the technologies is related to noticeable changes to the functioning of the post-modern society. The aim of the paper is to discuss the use of information technologies in the food industry in the Czech Republic with a focus on different parts of information systems. Using Mann-Whitney U-test and Person X boolean AND 2 test, different characteristics were tested for a sample of 52 enterprises. The results for example did not confirm the research of the Czech Statistical Office from 2018, saying that ICT (information and communication technologies) outsourcing is mostly used by large and middle-sized enterprises.