Depth | Gap Will Amount To 4.5 Million, The Robotics Industry Talent Pressing Problems, A Large Number Of Companies Or To Be Eliminated!

The lack of talent, perhaps many people have felt, but the fact is more serious, many enterprises in the future will be stopped, recession and even eliminated.

Why do you say that? Because in the following development of the robot industry and the upgrading of intelligent manufacturing, the positioning of talents has changed, that is to say, most of the talents today do not match the needs of the following industry.

Some time ago, I heard an industry expert say that he once asked a programmer how much code he could write in a day. The programmer replied that he could write 3,000 lines of code. The expert laughed and replied, "You are not writing code, you are writing a novel.

The experts say that because the programmer can only say that the porter of the program, not a can promote the progress of industry talent, in fact, a programmer can write one line a day can actual application code, has been a top industry, but the future is what the industry need employees with innovation ability.

Over the years, our country manufacturing industry has been developing rapidly, just two hundred and thirty, it passed the first stage of the labor-intensive industries, the second phase of capital-intensive industries, to now begin to enter the third stage of intelligence intensive industry, high-end manufacturing, but it is well known that the later the more difficult it is to walk, for all kinds of talents are increasingly dependent on, And we're clearly not ready for that right now.

Robot industry talent shortage overview

Since 2013, China has been the world's largest robot market. In terms of the overall development of the industry, China has become the backbone to support the development of the global robot industry. According to the China Robot Industry Development Report, the size of China's robot market is expected to reach 83.9 billion yuan in 2021, with an average growth rate of 18.3 percent from 2016 to 2023, far exceeding the global average annual growth rate of 11.5 percent.

Robot, known as the "pearl on the crown of manufacturing industry", has the characteristics of high technology integration, complex application environment, more professional operation and maintenance, and has multi-level talent demand.

The report of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security points out that in recent years, domestic enterprises and scientific research institutions have intensified the introduction and training of talents in the research direction of robot technology, which has achieved significant improvement in the hardware foundation and technical level. However, the training of applied talents such as field debugging, maintenance operation and operation management is still insufficient. Engineers who master robot operation, maintenance, debugging, troubleshooting and other technologies are in increasing demand.

In addition, the development of the industrial robot is not isolated, want to get the growth of the continuous, high quality, must cross together with many other industries, such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, machine vision, natural language, and so on high and new technology, it is a very large industry chain, into the robot from design to manufacturing, to the application and maintenance of each link, All of these need a large number of talents. If there is insufficient talent in any technology, it will become a weak board and drag down the development of the whole industrial chain.

However, High-end manufacturing fields such as robotics, artificial intelligence and cloud computing started late in China, most of which started after 2000. The development time is not long, and it has not been placed in the main position for a long time, resulting in a shortage of talent pool. The manufacturing Talent Development Planning Guide points out that by 2025, the talent gap in high-end CNC machine tools and robotics related fields will reach 4.5 million people, while also pointing out that the talent shortage in the ten key areas of manufacturing will exceed 19 million in 2020, and the figure will be nearly 30 million in 2025.

From the most basic operation and programming, complex debugging, maintenance, to the whole robot system in our research personnel, engineering personnel, high-skilled talent scarcity problems, etc, this will no doubt greatly hinder the development of the whole robot market, a few people move towards future profits high head enterprises gathered, and most of the small and medium-sized enterprises will even get the new graduates are not necessarily, Thus losing momentum for progress.

The shortage of talent will not be alleviated in a short time

In just a few decades after the reform and open policy, our country manufacturing industry has achieved great development, worthy of the world's factory, with a power supply of the country all over the world, behind the unprecedented prosperity, we have relied on three bonuses, in addition to the globalization dividend, demographic dividend, but there is another often overlooked talent bonuses, that is to say, the development of the past, We don't actually lack talent.

The dividend of globalization and demographic dividend are not mentioned here, but what about the dividend of talent? In fact, the definition of talent is different at different stages, as long as it can meet the needs of the time can be said to be talent, so we have been enjoying the talent dividend in the past.

The first stage of China's manufacturing industry was labor-intensive, that is, taking advantage of cheap labor, such as clothing, shoes and hats, and electronic assembly.

This stage is the most important is the large population and enough diligence, population more than the price is cheap, enough diligence can guarantee the efficiency, it does not need any technology, knowledge, and even illiterate can play, so until now is still very large number of migrant workers, are the talent in this stage, driving the development of the manufacturing industry in our country.

The second stage of manufacturing is capital-intensive industries, such as automobile assembly, steel machinery and other large industries. The key to this stage is basic education and infrastructure.

China's educational achievements are obvious, almost 100% of the nine-year compulsory education, as well as the continuous expansion of university enrollment, last year, China's university graduates as high as 8.47 million, a huge educated population, to meet the capital intensive industries in all aspects of talent demand; In terms of infrastructure, we have built the world's largest road and rail network, known as the "infrastructure fiend", which ensures the smooth movement of raw materials and finished goods.

Can be seen from the above, the first two stages in our country manufacturing industry is not lack of talent, but now we come to the third stage of intelligence labor-intensive industries, this stage need is education, including higher education and high vocational education, to develop research and development personnel, engineers, professional operators and so on talented person, and this is now what we lack.

In the higher education training of r & D personnel and engineers, China can only be said to be unsatisfactory at the present stage, there are 985 and 211 universities to provide some talents, barely meet the needs of the industry, although the overall quantity and quality is not enough, and with the progress of the in-depth, this deficiency will be more obvious.

According to the report, a bachelor's degree is the basic education requirement for ai related positions, especially in the FIELD of AI chips, as many as 88.4 percent of positions require a bachelor's degree. A master's degree or above is required for technical positions in intelligent robotics, machine learning, natural language processing, intelligent language, and computer vision.

In the high-end vocational education to train operators and other professional and technical personnel, Our country is very inadequate, which is the biggest shortcoming.

On the one hand, the cultivation of such high-end technical talents requires high-level hardware and software facilities, and currently only a few 985 universities and some top-notch departments corresponding to 211 Universities can provide such facilities, while other universities simply do not have the ability to provide enough talents.

On the other hand, China has not established a sound vocational education system, not enough skilled workers to be responsible for the operation of robots and other automatic equipment, as for the so-called vocational high school and technical school, needless to say, also know what it is like, can not count on.

Did not establish the vocational education system, the main is don't have enough money before, and do a good job of German vocational education system, for example, it can let students learn directly using the most advanced production technology and equipment, these things are all come from real gold and silver, and the need to constantly upgrade, cost more, At present some of the domestic double non probably have these facilities, unfortunately, but drop in the bucket.

Taken together, our country in the intelligent manufacturing including robot industry talent shortage, in a short period of time to ease, the enterprise needs to talents, in addition to high salary poaching, perhaps only oneself develop, but this not only increases the cost, and the risk of turnover, painstakingly to develop their own talents, may soon poached by other enterprises, it is really cry all too late, This is also the main reason why enterprises do not want to cultivate talents. Probably only the state-owned enterprises that are not very calculating will cultivate some technical talents, but that is about it.

We will promote the integration of enterprises, universities and research institutes to train robot technicians

For absence of robotics and intelligent manufacturing various talents and countries are already aware of, in 2018, was issued by the Ministry of Education announced on the first batch of "new engineering" project research and practice of notice, which is put forward to promote new engineering construction, building intelligent manufacturing, engineering and other professional robots, emphasize the practicability, and cross discipline and comprehensive, Focus on information communication, robot control, software design and other new technology and traditional industrial technology closely combined.

The initiative has led to a surge in the number of artificial intelligence and robotics majors at undergraduate and vocational schools. According to statistics, the number of undergraduate artificial intelligence majors has increased from 35 in 2018 to 345 at present. The number of undergraduate robotics engineering majors has increased from 86 in 2018 to 302 now. The number of vocational industrial robot majors increased from 523 in 2018 to 708 in March 2021.

October this year, the general office of the central committee of the communist party of China, issued by The General Office of the State Council concerning the opinion "to promote the development of modern vocational education quality, specifically around the national major strategic, tight butt industrial upgrading and technological change trend of priority to the development of advanced manufacturing, new materials, modern information technology, artificial intelligence and so on a number of emerging industries need professional, We will encourage listed companies and leading enterprises to offer vocational education, and encourage enterprises of all types to participate in providing vocational education in accordance with the law.

Vocational training programs conducted by robot companies, although there are certain risks as mentioned above, are also effective methods. Robot leading manufacturers such as ABB, Fanuc, Kuka and Yaskawa conduct robot training courses for many people in dozens of countries every year. Teaching everything from basic programming for first-time users to debugging complex robotic systems ensures adequate skills are acquired.

Germany with the academy of sciences, Alexander bangka said, "by the international robot manufacturers set up a training plan, can provide the key skills for future industrial workplace, workers in college certificate of robots on a global scale, are eligible for a wonderful new career opportunities, this is not limited to automotive industry robot and automation of the classic enterprise use, It also applies to small and medium-sized companies with various branches."

Talent is always the core problem of development. If the talent problem is not handled properly, it will become the biggest obstacle to the upgrading of China's intelligent manufacturing industry and seriously delay the pace of development. I hope that with the efforts of the country and the market, there will be a good result in the future.