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Digitally enabled upskilling, qualification and job transformation
General desciption of Digitally enabled upskilling, qualification and job transformation:
- There is a competence shift in manufacturing processes which is accelerated by the transition towards a zero-net industry (see also the priorities ‘Recovering and preserving the European leadership in critical and high value added products’ and ‘Next level of scalable, highly productive and zero-defect re-manufacturing technologies’.
- This competence shift requires the upskilling and/or reskilling of personnel and the empowerment of young professionals in manufacturing. Similar to the priority ‘Digitally enabled compliance and integration of innovative manufacturing solutions’, the upskilling and the qualification of workers should be further supported by digital technologies, while respecting privacy aspects associated to personal information. For instance, augmented reality solutions can be used to quality workers remotely.
- Digital tools can support career development of workers by providing guidance towards new opportunities in manufacturing and matching workers’ capabilities with job profiles.
Comment:
We are running out of people, particularly skilled people. All of the improvements we require of the digital and green twin transition are critical form a business perspective, from an integrated perspective and no less critically form a human capital perspective. We need to upskill and reskill our people, as well as attracting more young propel to the STEM sectors. But people are busy within their own jobs, and releasing them for training is a challenge. Equally there is a difficulty in ascertaining the ‘right’ skills to upskill them on. Too many SME owner managers claim to be upskilling their staff in data programs for example, but very few are training their staff in the fundamentals like ‘standard deviation’. We also need to be open to non STEM people coming to this sector. If we are to overcome the significant challenges we face as a society, we will need a significant input from the humanities and other specialist areas (e.g. the moral framework for AI in our society, may be better served by a humanities expertise, rather than the person who can code this up).