Mysuru: “The future jobs will be very different from those in the market today. The current youth skills are not enough to support industry 4.0,” said Arjun Ranga, Chairman, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Mysuru chapter.
“India ranks 6th among the 10 largest manufacturing countries in the world and is moving progressively for a bigger share in the global manufacturing market. With higher availability of technology and digitalisation in use, there is a major global shift in manufacturing. The next generation manufacturing practices across the world are further pushing quality and competitiveness to higher levels. These shifts are recognised and called as Industry 4.0 or Smart Manufacturing started by Germany. Automotive industry is one of the pioneers to implement Industry 4.0. To remain globally competitive, Indian Industry needs to adopt 4.0. The automobile sector in India is one of the largest in the world and accounts for over 7.1 percent of India’s GDP and contributes nearly 22 percent of manufacturing GDP”, said Ranga, interacting with the members on the importance of global manufacturing practices and skill development at CII office here on February 6.
“New technologies like robotics, AI, 3D printing call for specialised training. Hence youth need to be equipped with necessary multidisciplinary skills. Technology is playing a major role in facilitating new learning formats like shift from text based learning to e-learning through videos, simulations, collaborative classrooms etc. Essentially, we need Germany model where they have a common platform with stakeholders from industry, trade unions, government and each has the responsibility to identify framework and create curriculum”, said Ranga .
Further emphasising the role of SMEs, he said SMEs are the backbone of there country. “There has always been a technology divide between SMEs and large companies. Technology being expensive, SMEs do not have the bandwidth to justify the investments and technological affinity to follow the new trends. However, SMEs have been very successful in adapting low cost automation and frugal innovation they have successfully showcased by use of low cost methods to achieve the same objectives that technology does on a large scale”, added Arjun Ranga.
