Skills Matching for a Greener Industry 4.0-A Literature Review
Paper in proceeding, 2022

Manufacturing industry has historically had a very high leverage on environmental impact. Therefore, it is urgent to identify how the industry and its employees can contribute to change towards a sustainable society. Industry leaders need to enable their employees to create sustainable solutions, using technologies rising in industry 4.0. However, nowadays there are also critical discussions about whether this trend has reached our workplace settings in a satisfactory way. Namely, there is a growing skill gap among employees in manufacturing industries causing a lack of capability to match skill needs for fast technological development and requirements on sustainability. The resulting mismatch of technical and managerial knowledge and experience will critically impact companies in competitive markets. Despite a vast range of educational initiatives available on the global market, less employees than needed are developing new skills. A smart matching process to strategically support employees in their learning paths, by matching them to new relevant skills and matching those skills to learning activities, could bridge the widespread skill gap and address challenges e.g., motivation to learn. This study reviews existing research on functional matching processes for individually tailored learning and upskilling paths for employees that need to develop skills in industry. The study's result maps out parts in a matching system and identifies the existing gap in literature.

green skills

Matching

upskilling

industry 4.0

skill gap

Author

Greta Braun

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Production Systems

Johan Stahre

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Production Systems

Raija Hämäläinen

University of Jyväskylä

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering

Vol. 21 677-688
9781614994398 (ISBN)

10th Swedish Production Symposium, SPS 2022
Skovde, Sweden,

Areas of Advance

Production

Subject Categories

Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Economic Geography

Business Administration

DOI

10.3233/ATDE220186

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