## 3 Results: Verification of the Proposed Methodology
### Application Outputs by Industry
#### 3.2.1 Enterprises in the Automotive Sector  
These companies are engaged in the production of mechanical parts, components and assemblies, electrical or electronic components, software development, and the production of other components, parts, or materials used in the manufacture of vehicles, including services (e.g., heat treatment, painting, etc.).  
More specifically, companies have established a production program for the production and assembly of components for cars, such as door panels, locking systems, head restraints, and seat frames or the production of steering systems. Therefore, the exclusive customers are large automakers that have set strict requirements for all their suppliers.  
Car manufacturers make sure that their suppliers are certified according to standards. Ensuring and proving the required quality and timeliness of deliveries through certifications is gradually being transferred to lower-level suppliers, up to the original manufacturers of parts and materials. Suppliers to the automotive sector, if they want to succeed in the market, must have implemented not only the basic standards of the ISO 9001 --Quality Management System, ISO 14000--Environmental Management Systems, but also IATE 16949, which is an industry standard that unifies global requirements for quality management systems. The standard serves as a reference model for setting up basic control processes in the automotive industry. Like other technical standards, it defines an unsurpassable standard, requiring subsequent certification of the established management system (established processes) in the automotive industry organizations. The result is a certificate and the need to meet the requirements of this standard for the entire supply chain. These standards specify requirements for both production and support processes such as internal logistics.  
A total of 13 companies in this field, which had a serial type of production, were analyzed, and this was the largest representation of the industry among the evaluated companies. The average level of preparedness in the automotive sector was 2.59. If we look deeper into the individual dimensions and subdimensions, the individual subdimensions were relatively balanced and ranged between level 2 and level 3. The weakest points were subdimensions SD1: Handling technology and SD8: Types of packaging and packaging material. Dimension D4: Supply shows the best values. The average values are shown in Figure 7. The values were all close around the medium; it would be possible to use the standard deviation in the future. There were no extreme values.  
The following Figure 8 shows the total number of occurrences in the automotive sector, for the 13 companies analyzed.  
As can be seen from the graph, level 4 (235\(\times\)) was the most assigned to the indicators and level 3 (232\(\times\)) had almost the same number, in contrast to level 5 (79\(\times\)) and level 2 (46\(\times\)).  
Figure 9 shows the occurrences of level values for automotive sector.  
It can be seen from the graph that most of the values were level 2 and level 3. For certain indicators of subdimensions SD10: Supply technology and SD4: Storage technology, level 4 was often selected, which makes these two subdimensions the best rated. Less numerous is level 1, in which automotive companies, or their assessed indicators, occurred minimally.  
Figure 8: Total number of occurrences of values—automotive.  
Figure 7: Average values in the automotive sector.