With robots, where are the talents?

According to the data released by the China Robotics Industry Alliance, nearly 37,000 industrial robots in the Chinese market accounted for about one-fifth of global sales in 2013, surpassing Japan and becoming the world's largest industrial robot market. From local governments to private capital, there has been a boom in robotics.

Robot boom brewing huge talent gap

In the past year of 2014, it was called by the industry insiders of Chinese robot development. Chinese robotics is changing from technology research and development to technology application. In the next 10 years, the robotics industry is an industry that cannot see the ceiling, and many are related to the robot industry. Businesses have perceptions. Behind this, there is a huge and eager talent gap. At the beginning of last year, a general manager of Zhejiang Human Resources Development Co., Ltd. received a strange order for a company to find a senior talent who can manage and use large-scale smart devices. One of the necessary skills is to manage and maintain robots. To this end, the company has set a yearly salary of no less than 500,000 yuan. According to another source, the wages of skilled workers operating robots have also doubled within a year. Robot-related professional and technical personnel have become the object of many graduates' envy.

At present, one of the five robots sold in the world is installed in China. “According to the current increase in the installed capacity of robots in China, the demand for talent has long been thirsty.” Professor Sun Li-ning, director of the Institute of Robotics, Harbin Institute of Education, Cheung Kong Scholar of the Ministry of Education and a distinguished professor of "robot dad" once said.

Industrial robot is a complex system engineering, which can not be used for purchase. It needs to be programmed and the robot body and control software application software peripherals are combined to form a complete production line before it can be used for production. However, related specific operations have a huge talent gap due to high technical requirements and new areas.

Taking Chongqing as an example, according to conservative calculations, there were more than 5,000 professional talent shortages in the robotics field in 2014, and the industrial robot industry had a gap of up to 70,000 workers. Ling Lin, chairman of the robot operator, said: “Industrial robots are implemented in China” The biggest bottleneck encountered in technology is not who buys it, but who will use it.

Vocational schools have been dispatched to make up for the talent shortage

Participate in the robotics industry conference and use every opportunity to present the company's industrial robot application professional to the enterprise, and also contact with the industry giants in the field of robotics to strive to establish long-term cooperation, determine the practice base of students, use the resources of the industry giants, and the upstream and downstream The company establishes contacts and strives for more employment opportunities for students in the new professional direction. In the past few years, Cao Genji, dean of the Changzhou Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Technology has been very busy. In 2010, Changzhou Institute of Electrical and Mechanical Technology opened a new professional industrial robot application, becoming the first professional college to open this profession can become the first to eat crabs, and Cao Genji's account book related to: According to the development of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology It is planned that by 2020, the installed capacity of industrial robots will reach 1 million units, which will require about 200,000 industrial robot application-related employees. This means that from 2014 to 2020, an average of 30,000 or more industrial robot application talents will need to be trained each year.

However, compared with the year-on-year growth in the demand for professional robots for industrial robots, the cultivation of professional robots for industrial robots is lagging behind. At present, most of the robot-related talents cultivated in undergraduate colleges are engaged in the development of the ontology of the principle research and the development of special robots, while most of the vocational colleges in China have fewer counterparts in the application of industrial robots, and the opening period is only 1-2. Years, from the course content setting to the talent training process, are still immature.

At present, the ability of many recent graduates does not meet the company's employment needs in robotics, so often there are many job seekers, companies can not recruit people. “Companies are short of people in this area, but they do not know where to go. Schools want to solve this problem for enterprises.” Jiang Qingbin, director of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Changzhou Institute of Mechatronics, said, “This is a relatively new profession, and social recognition is not too high. High, professional positions, employment prospects, teaching quality, parents doubts, students are also very puzzled, so the enrollment is not very large. “In the past two years, with the development of the robot industry, there have been corporate fever, government fever, national heat, and education across the country. In a hot situation, many vocational schools have seen this market prospect and have established professional and orientation related to robots. According to statistics, as of 2014, there were 9 vocational colleges in the country that used this specialty to independently enroll students, and more than 120 vocational colleges set up professional orientations related to robots.

However, in the face of almost the speed of blowout training, Zhang Consultant of Shanghai Jinyu Consultancy Co., Ltd., which has been engaged in the consultation of the robot industry, is concerned that the talent gap has been seen by all, but the conditions for enrolling students in specialized institutions are not accurate. According to the data, there is no quantitative analysis. We only rely on the feeling that the speed of doing so is going up with the situation so fast that there may be short-term outbreaks of talents, and companies do not need so many people. Some people think that this problem is not a problem if we look at the issue 10 years later.

The key to China's manufacturing of 2025, to be effective, lies in talent. China's manufacturing requires not only leading scientists and technicians, but also a large number of skilled craftsmen. Because in the future intelligent factories and intelligent manufacturing process, the entire production model will undergo great changes. The application of new products and technologies such as electronic software will place higher demands on front-line production personnel. This objectively requires the development of vocational education. A large number of qualified personnel.