Jobs in the Factory of the Future: Who, What, Where, When, How Much $?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Buzz: “The Factory of the Future…Perhaps manufacturing will at last be able to leave behind the public impressions of labor-intensive, dirty and dangerous worksites…There is only one characteristic of the Factory of the Future that is essential: A creative mindset for problem-solving and out-of-the-box thinking is key to embracing new technologies.” (industryweek.com) So many questions! What will future factory jobs look like – only programmers, AI experts and supervisors in Silicon Valley and MIT Boston? Will there be a role for the not-so-educated, perhaps today’s burger-flipping job level? Will everyone receive a base welfare-level monthly allowance for life? Will the work week be reduced to 35 or 30 hours for all? Will first the Chinese and then Europe have truly smart factories before the US does? We’ll ask Gerd Hoppe at Beckhoff, Dr. Christian Liedtke at KUKA AG, Rakesh Gandhi and Nils Herzberg at SAP about Jobs in the Factory of the Future: Who, What, Where, How Much $?

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, really here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
0:16.3	Welcome to technology revolution, the future of now.
0:21.6	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven
0:27.5	trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:30.9	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now, Bonnie D. Graham.
0:36.4	Bonnie in the house, I love that intro. I still get a giggle out of it.
0:40.5	That's my co-prud. And I'm looking at video of my panelists. We're all on Zoom today. And they're
0:44.9	giggling too. That's the voice of Ryan Treasure VP. I call it VP of everything at Voice
0:49.7	America World Talk Radio, who recorded that wonderful intro for me. Let me tell you what our topic is today.
0:54.8	This is important to every one of you around the world. We know we've heard of industry 4.0.
1:00.4	We've heard of maybe industry 5.0. We know that things are changing in the workplace.
1:04.4	We're not going to talk about COVID specifically. We're going to talk today about jobs.
1:08.7	So let me give you a couple of definitions and a couple of questions.
1:11.9	And then I will ask my four esteemed panelists who are all over the world, which is really interesting.
1:17.1	And no humans' health was harmed in the making of this radio show.
1:20.3	I have to tell you that we all are at a safe distance.
1:23.1	So I have a quote from industryweek.com.
1:26.1	And let me read this.
1:27.3	The factory of the future has an evolving definition, smart manufacturing, industry 4.0,
1:33.8	the digital enterprise.
1:35.2	Here's the important part.
1:36.4	Perhaps manufacturing at last will be able to leave behind the public impressions of labor-intensive,
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