Relationship between trends, job profiles, skills and training programs in the factory of the future

Industry 4.0 is promoting the digitisation of manufacturing sectors towards smart products, machines, processes and factories. The adoption of disruptive technologies associated to this industrial revolution is re-shaping the manufacturing environment, decreasing low-skilled activities and increasing high-skill activities. These technological trends are affecting the job profiles and the skills required by the workforce, which demand proper training programs to address upskilling and reskilling needs. Having this in mind, this work proposes a model that contributes to understand how technological trends may impact the new job profiles and relevant skills, as well as how these skills may be upskilled by the workforce through available training programs according to their gaps and impact. The applicability of the proposed model was illustrated by considering two trends, the connectivity and the value of the data, and a catalogue of compiled new job profiles and training programs.