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Skills Foresighting – Automotive Industrial Digitisation Case Study

This paper presents the process and outputs of a skills foresighting project which aimed to identify the future competencies required in the workforce as industrial digitisation technologies are adopted in automotive manufacturing.

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Publication date
26 December 2020
Author
HVM Catapult

Description

The initial step of the project drew upon the expertise of researchers at the Institute of Digital Engineering to identify the industrial digitisation technology and capabilities required in an automotive manufacturing organisation. The next step utilised expertise from employers in the Automotive Council Skills Working Group to prioritise technology capabilities and align them to role groups in the future workforce. Additionally, an expert group from education (HE, FE and industry) defined the individual competencies required in the future workforce to deliver the required organisational capabilities. The future workforce competency sets generated were then mapped and evaluated with reference to relevant standards from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IFATE). All the steps in the foresight process were undertaken using on-line/virtual meetings which necessitated the adaptation of existing face-to-face workshop activities and the trialing of a number of software packages including on-line whiteboards, web-based polling and spreadsheets to capture and share information. The project commenced at the end of August 2020 and the employer and educator workshops took place in September and October. Mapping and gap analysis took place in November using the previous manual methods and a pilot Artificial Intelligence/Natural Language Processing (NLP) model.

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Skills Foresighting – Automotive Industrial Digitisation Case Study