Survey identifies the future manufacturing engineer
A flair for creativity and design aligned with skills in automation, robotics and mechatronics are key attributes for new and emerging roles in manufacturing.
This is the claim of Future Manufacturing Engineer, a new study conducted jointly by the IET and IMechE that highlights skills requirements over the next decade and informs the shape of vocational training needed for engineers at all levels.
According to the survey, skills in automation, robotics and mechatronics are thought to be the most important for manufacturing engineers (84 per cent) in the next ten years. These skills were followed by artificial intelligence (69 per cent) and sustainable, lean, resource efficient, manufacturing (65 per cent), but less than a third (32 per cent) feel major change will occur in the next five years.
Communication skills, creativity and design thinking were ranked as the top three non-engineering competencies of ‘highest importance’ for future manufacturing engineers. Energy, transport, and the circular economy were perceived as the top three challenge areas where manufacturing engineers can make the most significant contribution.
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