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Follow on Google News | Redefining Welding Profiles for Industry 4.0Weld 4.0 will have a profound impact on the skills and competences required of welding professionals, as well as learning methodologies, bringing them into the Digital Age
By: EWF This profound change will bring innovation and increased interest from new generations to an existing professional profile. As the European Union aims to increase the labour market relevance of manufacturing, including welding, while simultaneously reducing skills mismatches and shortages through updates of vocational education and training, Weld 4.0 will redefine the European Welder profile, ensuring its long-term ability to respond to new and future job requirements. Integrating new and innovative technologies and methodologies The new digital age brings to the traditional shop floor the most recent and advanced technologies, from Internet of Things to intelligent robots and machines, empowering companies with additional flexibility in manufacturing, mass customization, increased speed, better quality and improved productivity. As a result, employees now face the need to fully embrace training for digital skills. But, as ICT and automation continue taking over manufacturing, there are many manual processes, such as welding, that play, and will continue playing in the foreseeable future, a large role in the manufacturing industry, creating the need to bring ICT training to all the professionals that currently do not benefit from it. But the current approach to education is usually classroom face-to-face theoretical training and applied shop floor welding. Regardless, in order to succeed in today's digital world, trained welders must increase their IT knowledge. The Weld 4.0 project has put forth ambitious goals, from redefining the European Welder profile to improving the quality of qualification programs related to welding on transparency and recognition between the European Countries. It is also actively fostering the promotion of new learning opportunities in an international and diverse scenario, beginning with the pilot training in the languages from the consortium members – English, German and Portuguese. Lastly, the project will pursue the promotion of new learning opportunities for welding professionals. To also bring training and learning methodologies into the digital age, the project will look at the development of an innovative ICT training solution potentially including Welding Simulators, Game Based Learning, and Serious Gaming. Game-based learning is a new and innovative teaching method that allows learners to explore playfully different parts of a scenario. Games are typically designed for different ability levels and with the goal of helping the players to retain the information that they learn and apply it to other problem-solving situations, but can also be implemented as a collaboration between learners and educators. As an end-result, the project will increase the digital, social and cultural competences of VET trainers and teachers, making them better able to deal with any target group, while the use of European tools (like ECVET and EQF) will ensure complete transparency and mobility of the trained personnel across Europe, boosting qualification transferability. Partners Project partners include HighSkillz (https://www.highskillz.com/ About the European Federation for Welding, Joining and Cutting EWF is a pioneer in implementing a harmonised qualification and certification system for joining professionals. Through European projects, EWF has been innovating in training methodologies, and involved in the development of new technologies and uses for joining. Through its member organisations, EWF has established a firm link to the local industry, providing knowledge and training as well as participating in research initiatives that address the most pressing questions and challenges in the field of joining technologies. End
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