Smart manufacturing has become a prominent global industry. The Industrial Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, in conjunction with domestic machinery-related associations, has integrated the talent needs of the smart machinery industry, promoted the cultivation of localized key technology research and development and application talent skills, and fully cultivated talents for the smart machinery industry. Smart machinery is a new opportunity for Taiwan's machine tool industry to transform. However, the technology required for smart machinery is no longer limited to mechanical engineering itself, but spans fields such as information technology.

Today's industry is in urgent need of cross-field talents. Therefore, in response to the demand for industrial talents, the Industrial Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs has promoted industry-university cooperation in "Metal Electromechanical Intelligentization and Talent Rooting" to promote enterprises and universities to jointly cultivate talents needed for the smart machinery industry and strengthen industrial talents. Value addition and industrial upgrading and transformation.

Talent is the key to implementing smart machinery

CHMER is the number one brand in Taiwan's electrical discharge machine industry and independently develops computer controllers. Its products are used in molds and parts in aerospace, automotive, 3C, medical and other industries. Under the global Industry 4.0 development trend, CHMER continues to improve the high-precision and intelligent functions of its products to meet customer needs. However, talent will become the key to CHMER's technology improvement and product added value.

Wang Chenhong, general manager of CHMER, said that three years ago, it started to work with Xiuping University of Science and Technology and Qiaoguang University of Science and Technology through the industry-university cooperation promotion platform of the Industrial Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs to cultivate the talents needed by enterprises. CHMER assigns technical team supervisors to the schools every semester to assist in teaching. , allowing students to learn the technologies required by the industry during their studies, and providing students with year-round practical skills training at CHMER during their senior year. CHMER regards students as important assets for the company's future, and the company's senior managers regularly care for students In addition, CHMER assists students in planning their career development, so that students clearly understand that they need to learn different skills at each stage.

With the advent of the era of smart machinery, CHMER needs cross-field talents to enter the enterprise. This year, with the assistance of the Industry-Academic Cooperation Platform of the Industrial Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, CHMER has joined hands with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Engineering and Engineering of National Central University, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology to jointly promote cross-field talent industry-university cooperation.

Plan career development blueprint for interns

Xie Kaixiang, a student from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Shuping University of Science and Technology, participated in the Industrial Talents Entrepreneurship Program during his junior year, and entered CHMER during his senior year for a full-year internship. Having just graduated from school this summer, he decided to stay at CHMER for employment and become a regular employee of CHMER.

"CHMER will plan my work content and learning goals before I join the internship, and will not let me wander into aimless internships. Moreover, CHMER has a corporate mentorship system that always cares about my learning status during the internship. " The most important thing for a product is high precision, and mechanical assembly is the first step in the high-precision product manufacturing process. Under the guidance of his master, Xie Kaixiang conducted casting assembly and accuracy testing to learn the most critical technologies in the product manufacturing process. He believes that CHMER not only has a complete career plan, but also creates a happy corporate environment and makes students feel like home. This prompted him to actively choose to work at CHMER after graduation.

Cross-domain, cross-professional, cross-academic and practical

Yan Binghua, a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Central University, also pointed out that the government is currently focusing on developing smart machinery and smart manufacturing, but it currently lacks cross-field talents. To promote the development of smart machinery, we must rely on talents, and the generation of talents comes from education. Therefore, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Information Engineering, and Department of Mechanical Engineering of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology have cooperated with CHMER through the "Metal Mechanical and Electrical Intelligence and Talent Rooting" project, with CHMER, Advantech, and Dingxin Computer as industry engineers. Plan cross-field courses to let students understand CHMER's products, development vision, required technologies, etc.

He Zhengrong, head of the Central Machinery Department, pointed out that industry encounters process-related bottlenecks, which are usually system problems. To help industry solve problems, academia must also form an interdisciplinary team. In terms of smart machinery, it must include machinery, resources Engineering, asset management and other fields to solve specific problems for the machinery industry. Students will learn about industry development early through industry-university cooperation, and will automatically learn across fields and know how to cooperate with students in different fields. In the future, students will even enter the workplace after graduation. Finally, I will not be unfamiliar with cross-field integration, and I will also be involved in other fields.

This time, students from the Central Engineering Department were attracted to participate in the "Metal Mechanical and Electrical Intelligence and Talent Rooting" program. From the industry-university cooperation, the students learned for the first time the great prospects for the future development of smart machinery. Jiang Zhenrui, a professor of the Central Engineering Department, said that after coming to CHMER to do special topics, students from the Department of Engineering discovered that smart machinery is a new field with longer-term prospects. If they enter work in this field immediately after graduation, they will be one step ahead of others. He hopes that through The industry-university cooperation platform of the Industrial Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs encourages engineering students to invest in this industry.

The Industrial Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs provides an industry-university cooperation platform to help companies solve the talent demand gap. Wang Chenhong said: "We hope that through more industry-university cooperation projects, more school teachers and students can have an in-depth understanding of our industry." CHMER leverages the industry-university cooperation platform resources of the Industrial Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs to enter campuses and work hand in hand with schools to cultivate the talents they need. It also provides sound career planning to let students know their future development. This model has been very fruitful and CHMER will continue to do so in the future. Promote enterprises to educate talents in schools and regard talents as CHMER’s greatest asset.