Jungjinkong, Smart Factory Employee Long-Term Advanced Course 'Popular'

424 Companies Applied for Smart Factory Adoption... Twice the Number Compared to Last Year

The long-term advanced course for smart factory employees is currently conducting a workplace improvement project.

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Cheol-hyun] The Small and Medium Business Corporation (Chairman Kim Hak-do, hereinafter referred to as SBC) announced on the 19th that the long-term advanced course for employees in smart factories, newly introduced and operated since last year, is receiving positive responses from smart factory adopting companies and their employees.

SBC has been providing education in three tracks?data analysis, manufacturing automation, and operations management?for employees of small and medium-sized manufacturing companies that have introduced smart factories to support the digital transformation of SMEs and mid-sized enterprises. This year, after completing the first course in October, the second course is being conducted for 309 companies.

In addition to theoretical and practical training on smart factories, a total of 160 hours of package education is supported, including trainee-led project education under expert guidance to identify and improve issues at the company site.

Considering that employees feel burdened by group training due to the spread of COVID-19 and the introduction of the 52-hour workweek system, and that there is high demand for training methods involving practical exercises at actual smart factory sites, the proportion of on-site project education was significantly expanded from 56 hours to 80 hours this year.

As a result of improving and operating the curriculum according to the demands of employees at smart factory adopting companies, the number of companies participating in the long-term advanced course this year doubled to 424 compared to last year, and the number of participating employees increased by more than 60% to 753, attracting considerable interest from companies and employees.

Woo Young-hwan, Head of the Job Division at SBC, said, "SBC will actively utilize the Smart Factory Learning Center and continuously advance the project-centered curriculum for workplace improvement to cultivate smart factory experts equipped with problem-solving capabilities."

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