Industry 4.0 is characterized by the integration of smart technologies into manufacturing and industrial processes, aiming to improve productivity, efficiency, and flexibility while supporting better decision-making. Industry 5.0 expands on this, with an emphasis on human centricity, sustainability and resilience. However, manufacturing workforce often lacks the necessary skills to fully understand and utilize these technologies and approaches. Specifically, there is a significant gap in green and digital skills necessary to support Industry 4.0 and 5.0 implementation, but also the twin (green and digital) transition of the manufacturing sector. These gaps prevent manufacturing companies from becoming more sustainable, efficient, and competitive. This paper aims to present a comprehensive roadmap for creating and delivering educational content, in the form of learning factories, addressing skills necessary for the twin transition. The roadmap includes the necessary competences and the delivery modes that could be used, especially in the delivery of on-site and remote Learning Factories. This approach is applied in two different cases, concerning green and digital skills respectively, to validate its applicability and to demonstrate its versatility. Ultimately, companies will be able to confront these challenges through sustainable practices and via becoming more resilient. Future work will involve further enhancing this roadmap, making it applicable across various industrial sectors, and evaluating its effectiveness through pilot programs to support long-term sustainable and digital transformation initiatives.

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A Roadmap for Reskilling and Upskilling of the Workforce Towards Aligning with Twin Transition in the Manufacturing Sector

  • Vasiliki C. Panagiotopoulou,
  • Harry Bikas,
  • Aikaterini Paraskevopoulou,
  • Fotios Stamatopoulos,
  • Panagiotis Stavropoulos

摘要

Industry 4.0 is characterized by the integration of smart technologies into manufacturing and industrial processes, aiming to improve productivity, efficiency, and flexibility while supporting better decision-making. Industry 5.0 expands on this, with an emphasis on human centricity, sustainability and resilience. However, manufacturing workforce often lacks the necessary skills to fully understand and utilize these technologies and approaches. Specifically, there is a significant gap in green and digital skills necessary to support Industry 4.0 and 5.0 implementation, but also the twin (green and digital) transition of the manufacturing sector. These gaps prevent manufacturing companies from becoming more sustainable, efficient, and competitive. This paper aims to present a comprehensive roadmap for creating and delivering educational content, in the form of learning factories, addressing skills necessary for the twin transition. The roadmap includes the necessary competences and the delivery modes that could be used, especially in the delivery of on-site and remote Learning Factories. This approach is applied in two different cases, concerning green and digital skills respectively, to validate its applicability and to demonstrate its versatility. Ultimately, companies will be able to confront these challenges through sustainable practices and via becoming more resilient. Future work will involve further enhancing this roadmap, making it applicable across various industrial sectors, and evaluating its effectiveness through pilot programs to support long-term sustainable and digital transformation initiatives.