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Why the manufacturing sector needs to attract today’s ‘digital natives’
The manufacturing sector is not usually front of mind when young adults – today’s “digital natives” – consider career choices. But with the advent of digital manufacturing, the sector is facing a serious skills shortage and executives need to act if manufacturing is to retain its rightful place in a healthy economy. Worldwide, the manufacturing sector has over the past few years seen a dramatic shift from traditional manufacturing practices (which were labour intensive and required low technology) to models embracing the latest technological – especially digital – advances. In South Africa and in Africa as a whole, the move to digital has been slower but the momentum is picking up, driven by multinational companies that are standardising the migration from analogue and semi-digitised equipment to fully functional digital manufacturing equipment. South Africa’s status on the continent as an economic gateway is also fuelling the race for the digitisation of manufacturing. These new te...
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