Digital technology helped create the skills gap. Here's how it can help close it

Jan 20, 2020

Employees of German car parts maker Continental inspect a printed circuit board at a factory of the company's Powertrain unit in Nuremberg, Germany, March 01, 2019. Picture taken March 1, 2019. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert - RC11DB2C5510

Here's how the manufacturing sector can close the skills gap – using digital technologies. Image: REUTERS/Andreas Gebert

Natan Linder

Chief Executive Officer, Tulip Interfaces

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The number of unfilled manufacturing jobs since January, 2009, in hundreds of thousands. Image: US Bureau of Labor Statistics

This graph shows front line operator’s performance improvement following a targeted training program. Here, there’s a 45% difference in average step time before and after the training.

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