The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) estimates the increase in industrial automation over the next 5 years would create one million high-quality jobs in the industrial sector.
New jobs for automotive engineers estimate at nearly 100,000. Manufacturing is one of the most promising sectors for the creation of new jobs in autos, robotics, 3D printing, and transportation. Most jobs in demand and with high stability rate will be characterized by non-routine tasks, creativity, analytical skills that can not be replaced by technology. Job polarization will increase as more jobs will be created on the top and the bottom of the sector. In the U.S., the IT, health and industrial sectors are predicted to have the largest number of job openings. There will be over 9.5 million additional and 98 million replacement jobs in all sectors from 2013 to 2025, in EU. Hard-to-fill positions of maintenance technicians and machinists require a college degree or apprenticeship.Ī report by Citigroup provides a deep insight into the future of employment affected by industrial automation: Science & engineering degrees are high in demand in research-driven sectors, such as pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing, or aerospace. The positions of technicians with the mechanical and electrical skills needed to maintain these machines often go unfilled for months as recruiters search for candidates with a bachelor’s or associate’s diploma in manufacturing engineering. The machinery used in industrial automation becomes increasingly sophisticated. Yet, the jobs requiring technical skills and a degree in STEM disciplines face a dramatic staff shortage, which delays businesses from increasing their production and growth. Industrial automation and globalization cut the demand for the low-skilled worker who does not have the necessary skills to manage the new equipment. A study by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce found that 2016 is the first year when college-educated manufacturing workers outnumbered those with a high-school diploma and less.Ī 2015 survey by Deloitte found that recruiting an engineer takes businesses 94 days in average, a skilled production worker – 70 days. The share of workers with college or graduate degrees increased eight points. In 2000, 53% of workers in the manufacturing sector had high school education, but by 2015 that share dropped to 44%. Openings in manufacturing in 2016 average 353,000 per month, up from 122,000 in 2009. Since 2009, the number of jobs in manufacturing has risen, with 2016 hitting the 15-year high, according to Labor Department. With the growing anxiety about the industrial automation leaving factory workers unemployed, thousands of jobs in the manufacturing sector go unfilled across the U.S. In response, the education sector has reduced the focus on the technical education. 
Why? Again, the misconception about automation cutting jobs in the manufacturing sector has urged young people to pursue careers in the services sector. The education sector is slow to adapt, too, failing to provide enough skilled workers. This misconception of a factory worker as a low-skill employee, in turn, creates a self-inflicted obstacle for the young generations – even though the majority of parents agree on the importance of the manufacturing sector for the country’s economy, few of them would encourage their kids to pursue a career in manufacturing. A skilled worker in the industrial sector has better prospects of a stable employment than in many other sectors. Unlike the hazardous and dirty factories of the past, modern factory floors are cleaner, safer and better equipped with high-end industrial computers than most outsiders to the industry realize. The manufacturing sector demands increasingly sophisticated technical skills of all modern factory workers. This is a dramatically outdated perception, as manufacturing is one of the highest paying careers. As industrial automation is doing a certain task faster, cheaper and safer, it creates a demand for a human workforce to perform other tasks to tend to industrial automation itself.Īnother myth is the perception of a “factory worker” as a low-skilled, low-paid employee. What often remains behind the scenes is how technology ends up creating more jobs than it destroys. The discussion has generated a number of myths.
HISTORY OF AUTOMATION AND JOB MARKET PC
The discussion about industrial automation replacing the human workforce has a long history and goes back to the Industrial Revolution, but it is the advent of the PC in the 80s that has changed the way we work forever.
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