Demand for Competences of Industrial Engineering Graduates in the Context of Automation of Manufacturing Processes

Automation and robotization is considered to be a key determinant of the development and innovation in manufacturing enterprises. But the scope and range of its implementation is changing due to ongoing fourth industrial revolution towards Industry 4.0. The objective of the paper is to analyze the needs of manufacturing enterprises with regard to automation and robotization but from the perspective of desired competences of Industrial Engineering graduates. To achieve the objective the results of industrial survey are analyzed. The survey was made among Thai and EU companies within the project titled Curriculum Development of Master’s Degree Program in Industrial Engineering for Thailand Sustainable Smart Industry -MSIE4.0. The results show that the requirements towards graduates are changing especially with reference to real-time control of manufacturing process, big data use and mobile devices use to steer and feed with the information the management and manufacturing processes.