Digital, Technological and AI Skills for Smart Production Work Environment

This paper analyses the past and anticipated developments in collaborative smart production work environment and points at the required skills to best utilize and flourish in this newly formed work environment. The paper identifies the new work requirements using the job type and its related required technologies and maps the work requirements to the set of skills that may fulfill these requirements. An important notion in this paper is that a shopfloor usually involves several different work environments, each with its unique set of work requirements and associated skills. Thus, tailoring a subset of skills to these set of requirements is the suggested strategy. We use a small example of assembly shopfloor for illustrating the proposed approach. Finally, we propose future research related to this study.