Human Factor in Industry 4.0—Perception of Competences of Graduates and Employees

Abstract

The concept of Industry 4.0 is focused on the production of personalized products in time and cost which are approximate to mass production. The generated technical and organizational solutions force enterprises to change the role of their employees. He stops to be a contractor and becomes a supervisor of the self-initiating production process. The chapter presents the research about the perception of competences of employees and graduates by the enterprises in the context of the discussed strategy of Industry 4.0. This is a part of a wider research carried out using the CATI method on a group of 108 large industrial enterprises located in Poland. They allowed to find out not only how the idea of Industry 4.0 is understood, but also what is necessary to implement it. It gives a chance to formulate guidelines to which areas the attention should be paid to build the competences of future and current staff of industrial enterprises—including logistics—not only in Poland but also in the world.