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A3 to Kick Off Automate 2017 with White Paper on Jobs in the Automation Age
Today the Association
for Advancing Automation (A3) announced that it will release its
newest white paper titled "Work in the Automation Age: Sustainable
Careers Today and Into the Future" at Automate 2017, North
America's premier event devoted to leading-edge automation technology
and business innovation to be held at Chicago's McCormick Place April
3-6. The white paper explores the impact of automation on the
ever-evolving job market and the growing shortage of skilled employees
with experience and training in advanced technologies. A3 examines the
types of jobs that are going unfilled and reviews workforce development
initiatives, including education, apprenticeships, and on-the-job
training that will fill labor shortages and support ongoing economic
growth and productivity.
The white paper will open Automate 2017 at a jobs forum titled "Working
in the Automation Age" on Monday, April 3 at 10:30 a.m. Speakers at the
event include: Jeff Burnstein, President, A3; Juan Garcia, Global
Leader, Amazon Career Development; Rebecca Hartley, Chief Workforce
Development Officer, Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM (News - Alert))
Institute; Ritch Ramey, Coordinator, RAMTEC Ohio; and Paul Aiello,
Director of CERT Sales and Operations, FANUC America. The forum will
take place in the "Future of Automation" theater, located near the
entrance to the Automate 2017 exhibit hall. The white paper will explore
a series of key topics:
The Skills Gap and its Impact Studies show an increasing
skills gap with as many as two million jobs going unfilled in the
manufacturing industry alone in the next decade. Fully 80% of
manufacturers report a shortage of qualified applicants for skilled
production positions, and the shortage could cost U.S. manufacturers 11%
of their annual earnings. Manufacturing executives reported an average
of 94 days to recruit engineering and research employees and 70 days to
recruit skilled production workers. The skills gap is driving up what
are already above average wages and benefits in U.S. manufacturing.
Evoution in Job Titles
In the automation age, as in the
computer age before it, job titles shift to reflect the impact of
technology. As lower-level tasks are automated with advanced
technologies such as robots, new job titles and industries arise across
nearly every economic sector. A recent study concluded that occupations
that have 10% more new job titles grow 5% faster.
Robots and Job Creation As employers add automation
technologies, such as robots, the number of jobs continues to rise. As
one of numerous examples, Amazon had ~45,000 employees when it
introduced robots in 2014. While the company continues to add robots to
its operations, it has grown to over 90,000 employees, with a drive to
hire more than 100,000 new people by the end of 2018.
Innovative Training Employers, vocational schools, and
universities are offering innovative training approaches that give
workers alternatives to the traditional (and expensive)
high-school-to-college-to-job route. Employers such as GM are
revitalizing apprenticeships, recognizing the significant advantage
those programs offer.
"The opportunity for jobs in the automation age is huge-and growing,"
said Jeff Burnstein, A3 president. "As advanced technologies automate
low-level tasks, companies are looking for employees with new skills and
training to use those technologies in existing jobs and to meet
companies' anticipated future demand. Our white paper reflects extensive
research and offers insight into the evolution of education and the
rewarding, sustainable jobs of the automation age."
Interview Opportunities Jeff Burnstein is available to
discuss the white paper at greater depth at Automate or via
teleconference. Editors interested in exploring these topics with Jeff,
please contact [email protected].
Registration Open More than 20,000 attendees are expected to
attend Automate 2017, from all 50 states and more than 70 countries.
Attendee registration is still open at the following link: Automate
2017 (www.automateshow.com).
About Association for Advancing Automation (A3) The
Association for Advancing Automation is the global advocate for the
benefits of automating. A3 promotes automation technologies and ideas
that transform the way business is done. A3 is the umbrella group for
Robotic Industries Association (RIA), AIA - Advancing Vision + Imaging,
and Motion Control & Motor Association (MCMA). RIA, AIA, and MCMA
combined represent over 1,000 automation manufacturers, component
suppliers, system integrators, end users, research groups and consulting
firms from throughout the world that drive automation forward. For more
information, please visit our websites: A3 - www.A3automate.org.
RIA - www.robotics.org.
AIA - www.visiononline.org.
MCMA - www.motioncontrolonline.org.
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