Saturday, 18 May 2019

The 4th Industrial Revolution and the future Jobs

Introduction

The ABC plastic Industries is a plastic manufacturing company in the north western province, employed with 450-500 no of employees with injection and blow molding machinery, with new technology development  the company can develop the production with fully automated machinery, but the company gradually decided to introduce with new machinery with fully automated facilities in near future.

Literature

The 4th industrial revolution and the future jobs is most important chapter in the current situation, the 1st industrial revolution has been occurred in Netherlands was (1760) that handmade crafts business by former crafts workers  could not compete with factories manufacture products, the second industrial revolutions started 1870-1914 know as technology revolution  brought mass production and industrialization, 3rd Industrial revolution began 1960-1990 its brought the mainframe computers, personal computing and the internet, due to this the traditional middle class workers face job issues. (Van Dam, 2017)

The manufacturing sector is on the cusp of the 4th industrial revolution (4IR), bringing with it modern technologies and strategies that will alter the products, forms and supply chains included in each viewpoint of industry. This technology ushers in even more prominent connectivity that will permit manufacturers to maintain their competitive edge in a rapidly changing world, and respond flexibly and rapidly to customers’ necessities. (Charis, 2016)
the acceleration of technology will shorten the self life of existing knowledge, expertise and skill, and require different competencies which need to be develop. For example, a specific activities of jobs become automated, people will be required to focus on new activities which require different skill. Technological skill will experience the faster change (Van Dam, 2017)

Conclusion

Finally, the 4th industrial revolution is also referred to as the digital age which necessitates that people develop digital competencies. The EU argues that “there is a need for digital skill for nearly all jobs where technology complements existing tasks. In the near future 90% of jobs will require some level of digital skill” (Sherrei, 2019)

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3 comments:

  1. Only cited references should be in the reference list.

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  2. Well you have explained the transformation of industrial revolution so it is mandatory for everyone to be digitally expert to become a competent professional.

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  3. The global labour market is increasingly adopting new technology. New technology makes it easier for companies to automate routine tasks and could disrupt the balance between job responsibilities completed by humans and those completed by machines and algorithms. With smart technology becoming more mainstream, we need to consider the impact using this new technology will have on our society and workforce.

    Transformations and disruptions are already occurring within labour markets across the world. People routinely store images and documents in the cloud, our emails remind us to send follow-ups and we can turn on light bulbs with a simple voice command,

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