Improved training methodologies and technology itself can narrow the skills gap, attract younger workers.
The process industries face a demographic workforce gulf in part of our own making. “And we have only two levers available to address it,” said Vimal Kapur, president of Honeywell Process Solutions, in this morning’s Honeywell Users Group Americas keynote session in San Antonio.
First, industry has to adopt and apply the newer tech tools and digital workflows that younger workers use in their personal lives and have come to expect at work. Second, industry has to find a way to get new workers competent and productive more quickly, so they can operate the process industries’ critical and often hazardous production assets safely and efficiently in the years to come. Technology plays a role in this push as well. “Technology adoption and skills building are the only two ways forward,” Kapur said. “We’ll have to adapt more quickly and make a case for it.”
By Keith Larson
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