Skills body Semta relaunches as Enginuity

The new organisation will continue the work of Semta – but with a renewed focus on helping employers meet the challenges of digitalisation by attracting new talent, and upskilling existing workers.

In an interview with The Engineer, Enginuity CEO Ann Watson said that the relaunch was a response to the manufacturing sector’s increasing demand for new skills. “Skills have been top of the priority list for a number of years,” she said,  “and as we move into the world of Industry 4.0 those skills challenges are changing. The need for data and digital skills is increasing and we’re seeing a huge upskilling challenge. Sixty per cent of the manufacturing workforce of 2030 have already left school, and these are the individuals that we’ve got to upskill.”

Enginuity will help address this, she said, by using its own data science capability to assists employers in a number of different ways: from predicting future skills requirements, to developing apprenticeship standards, and helping companies upskill existing employees. “We looked at how can we use the tools and techniques of industry 4.0 to create something quite special in the skills world,” she said. Better data will only improve [these solutions] moving forward,” said Watson.  “Making these solutions even more responsive to current and future needs, an even better user experience, and even easier to integrate and measure.”