A Gap Analysis between the Expectation of Industry 4.0 and the Ability of the Current Industrial Engineering Graduates in Khon Kaen University

Thailand has entered Industry 4.0 era, which is the recent trend in automation and data exchange in organization. The digital transformation of manufacturing processes based on intelligent machines and devices is crucial in manufacturing industries. To be an effective industry 4.0, it requires cooperation between various sectors and higher education sector is one of those. For engineering department, especially Industrial Engineering, the curriculum must be improved to conform the industrial sector requirements. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to find a gap between the qualifications of graduate students that the industry needs and the abilities of the current graduate students from Industrial engineering, Khon Kaen University. Gap analysis was used to determine the skills that the graduate students need to improve. The result shows that the current graduate students still need to improve in the skills of systematic thinking and understanding of processes related to Industry 4.0, automation technology and the big data analysis