A new training programme has been launched to help manufacturing workers pick up digital skills such as coding and using emerging technology.
"We have been hearing from the ground that the available digital training courses that are out in the marketplace are pegged at the professional, managerial and executive level, and technicians and associate professionals sometimes find it rather difficult to find suitable courses to meet their learning needs," he said at an event to launch the certificate at the Institute of Technical Education College Central.
Each module takes up to a day of face-to-face teaching and is complemented by the NTUC's ULeap mobile learning platform.Our company is planning to introduce some robots, so if I take a foundation course in robotics, it will be easier for me to get used to and understand the technology when the company starts training us to use it.
New technology being used by aircraft makers includes sensors to gather data for better analytics to predict failure, and 3D printing to refurbish parts.