By: Cristian Machado de Almeida 9/30/2018
With the rapid automation of processes and machines together with the Internet of Things (IoT), companies are starting to have a new model all over the world. The 4.0 industry will radically change its assembly lines, and will increasingly begin to produce innovative and customized products for its customers in the near future. Inside the productive processes it will be present in the day to day of the collaborators much more robots, and with that, it will change the profile of the professionals because in addition to knowing how to work with the machines they also will cooperate together with the robots. These will be some of the characteristics that Industries are looking for professionals.
In a survey conducted by Consulting Roland Berger estimated the shortage of more than 200 million skilled workers in the world over the next 20 years. One of the main reasons for this scenario is the need to increasingly have a skilled workforce, whether in productive or administrative processes. This does not mean that employees will be eliminated from production lines or from offices, these in many companies they will be focused on strategic tasks and project control as long as they keep up with the changes and seek the necessary expertise.
With all these changes, what will be the impact on the life of the professionals? For us to have a better view of these changes we can look at Germany where the 4th Industrial Revolution is much more advanced. An estimate by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) indicates that the number of jobs is expected to increase by 6% over the next ten years. The demand for employees in the mechanical engineering sector is expected to rise, even more, about 10%. The overall expectation is that about 960,000 jobs will be created, especially in the IT and software development areas.
Brazil is still walking slowly on the way to Industry 4.0, but it is a subject that arouses much interest not only from the professionals who work in the factories but also from many young people who look at this path as a great challenge. If in recent years the interest of young people was not focused on industry, with this "rebirth" of industries in general and with them becoming industry4.0 young people will be able to look at them with a defiant look. Not only students but those professionals who still want to stay in industries, and have the growing interest in understanding this convergence of information, IT, electronics and hardware will have a great field ahead.
With this scenario, those who want to gain space in the factories of the future should develop new skills, among the most common will be to learn to work side-by-side with collaborative robots to increase productivity, with that in everyday life will bring more space to exercise more complex and creative functions. Such a professional will not only be responsible for exercising a specific part of an assembly line but throughout the production process. It will be needed to be open to change, having the flexibility to adapt to new roles and become accustomed to continuous multidisciplinary learning.
Many experts say that having a multidisciplinary approach does not mean that technical knowledge has lost importance in the curriculum, quite the contrary, an academic training in the area of Engineering in the area of IT is important, but it will not be enough, this is because the skills learned in each year less time. It will be necessary to specialize in several fronts and to know a little more of each thing and of course to like technology, innovation and mainly to be curious to learn and follow an industry that always reinvents itself.
As said by Charles Darwin " It is not the strongest that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one who adapts the changes best "
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