New technology coming to the plant floor, such as augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI), is making an impact on operator roles in 2023. Large capital investments in automation by food manufacturers have reshaped plant floors over the last 10 years, but those improvements tended to be substantial and longer projects, such as industrial network updates or changing to new programmable logic control (PLC) platforms. With these plant updates, manufacturers did the training in-house or had third parties help with workforce training.
So, how is training changing with new technology, and how should senior management look at plant personnel in 2023?