An approach to qualify human resources supporting the migration of SMEs into an Industrie4.0-compliant company infrastructure

Abstract

Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things are a current pinnacle of technical, organizational, economical and social developments being present in all sectors of our lives, from industry to service infrastructures. When the Industry4.0 paradigm leaves the labs to come in broad daylight, understandable to be applied by small and medium enterprises is only a question of possessing the necessary know-how and of understanding the usability for all actors, from the normal worker at the machines and production lines to the production supervisors and company management. This paper describes an approach and associated methodologies and a practicable set of tools to support answering the second main question: how to educate and qualify human-resources in small and medium enterprises for migrating both structurally and functionally into an Industry4.0-compliant company infrastructure. Two examples of a training and qualification approach introduced as "Business Games for learning Industry4.0" are rounding up the paper.