Vocational Education and Vocational Skills in Production: Urgent Need for Future Production Worldwide

Erik Skov Madsen

Vocational Education and Vocational Skills in Production: Urgent Need for Future Production Worldwide

Department of Technology and Innovation

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Abstract

Through case studies in China, Mexico and Denmark, this paper identifies challenges posed to production companies by a lack of vocational skills and vocational education. The study includes manual, complex and automated production procedures. The paper highlights how both China and Denmark have focused on theoretical rather than vocational education for more than a decade.
Based on a combination of a literature review and field studies of cases, including studies of mass production and unmanned and automated production, a framework of skills related to process tasks is developed. The paper concludes that much more focus on the development of vocational education and vocational skills is needed in Denmark, the U.K, the U.S. and in China for employees to be equipped to handle future automated and advanced production systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Global Manufacturing and China
Editors	Xiaobo Wu
Number of pages	6
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	University of Cambridge, Institute of Manufacturing
Publication date	2015
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9781902546537
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	The Eleventh International Symposium on Global Manufacturing and China: Beyond Catching-up: The Next Era of Chinese Manufacturing Growth and Innovation - Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Duration: 5. Sep 2015 → 6. Sep 2015

Conference

Conference	The Eleventh International Symposium on Global Manufacturing and China
Location	Zhejiang University
Country/Territory	China
City	Hangzhou
Period	05/09/2015 → 06/09/2015

Bibliographical note

Published by Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, UK
Published and Distributed by
Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge
Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX, UK
Copyright © 2015 by Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge
First edition 2015
ISBN 9781902546537

Keywords

Vocational education
Vocational skills
Advanced production
Framework
Case study

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Madsen, ES 2015, Vocational Education and Vocational Skills in Production: Urgent Need for Future Production Worldwide. in X Wu (ed.), Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Global Manufacturing and China. 1 edn, University of Cambridge, Institute of Manufacturing, Cambridge, The Eleventh International Symposium on Global Manufacturing and China, Hangzhou, China, 05/09/2015.

Vocational Education and Vocational Skills in Production : Urgent Need for Future Production Worldwide. / Madsen, Erik Skov.

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Global Manufacturing and China. ed. / Xiaobo Wu. 1. ed. Cambridge : University of Cambridge, Institute of Manufacturing, 2015.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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