Empowering the workforce: OMRON’s approach to skills development in European manufacturing

Posted on 10 Oct 2023 by The Manufacturer

Fernando Colás, CEO of OMRON's Industrial Automation Business Unit (IAB) in Europe, discusses how OMRON is promoting skills development to enable the transition from 4IR to 5IR, empowering people through automation and placing the wellbeing of the worker at the centre of production processes.

Amongst academics, business leaders and politicians there is a great deal of debate about how moving from the Fourth Industrial Revolution, 4IR, or Industry 4.0 as it is also known, to Industry 5.0 will change the world in which we live. Historically the Industrial Revolution was the First Machine Age, and electricity the Second, then…

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