The Human Resource Requirements of China And Germany For Industry 4.0 Era

The Human Resource Requirements of China And Germany For Industry 4.0 Era

Despite there are different imagination of intelligent factory and manufacturing, there is a comsensus both in industry and academia: in 4.0 industry era, the machine will not replace human, on the contrary, the initiative of human could play an important role in the development process of Industry 4.0.

In the 17 research themes proposed by the Germany industry 4.0 working group, there are four themes related to “human”, meanwhile, “
building a sound multi-level talent training system to support and guarantee for general strategy has been listed into “Made in China 2025” report. 

The requirements of Germany

Four of the 17 research themes proposed by the Germany industry 4.0 working group are related to human resource.

Firstly, formation of a variety of possible people-oriented work organization, including self-organization and autonomy, in particular, provide age-appropriate jobs for older people.

Secondly, industry 4.0 would integrates social and technology, creates more possibilities for the working expansion, capacity and professional level, as well as improving access to knowledge.

Thirdly, in order to improve the teaching efficiency of working conditions and convenient communication, the new learning content of information technology is increasing.

Fourthly, use applicable and convenient learning tools to help users be self-taught.


The requirements of China

《Made in China 2025》 requirements for a “healthy multi-level talent training system”.

I, strengthen the development of manufacturing personnel planning and classification of the overall planning, organization and implementation of manufacturing personnel training program, increase professional and technical personnel, management personnel and skill workers training, improve from research and development, transformation, production to management personnel training system.

II, improving the modern management level and company competitiveness as the core, implementing the company management personnel quality and small-and-medium companies’ promotion project, in order to cultivating a number of outstanding entrepreneurs and high level management personnel. 

III, as a key point that with high-level, urgent need of shortage of professional, technical and innovative talents, implementing the plan to update the technical personnel knowledge and train the excellent manufacture engineers, especially build a set of training centers in high educate institution,  to create high skilled team. 

IV, strengthen the vocational education and skills training, try to guide a group of ordinary undergraduate colleges and universities transform to be application technology ones, set up a batch of practice base, to carry out modern apprenticeship pilot demonstration, and creat a complete, highly skilled technical talent team.

V, encourage companies cooperate with the high-educated institution to cultivate scientific research personnel, technical skills talent and compound talents for manufacturing industry who are all urgent need deepen the reform of enrollment and training model of engineering doctor, master’s degree, actively promote the combination of production, university and research.

VI, strengthen the industry talent demand forecast, complete various talents information database, build the industry talent level evaluation system and the information release platform.

VII, establish a talent incentive mechanism, and increase the recognition of outstanding talents and reward efforts

VIII, establish and improve the manufacturing talent service institutions, complete the talent flow and employment system.

IX, take a variety of forms to select all kinds of outstanding talents, organize the technical personnel go abroad for training, explore the international training base.

X, increase the intensity  of manufacturing talent introduction, and bring in leading talent and urgent needed talent.