AI – What does it mean for jobs in manufacturing?

Our CEO Narcis Puigdemont Company and the GM of Hoffmann Group Espa?a y Portugal were recently interviewed for quite a long article carried by Diari de Girona and other news outlets. We saw this as an opportunity to try to demystify some aspects of the manufacturing industry and careers in our sector.

In this second instalment of our adaptation of the original article, we turn our attention to the buzz around artificial intelligence and we wanted to make the case that while AI will undoubtedly continue to offer new efficiencies for manufacturers, this need not mean a reduction of the size of the overall industrial workforce or the erosion of the attractiveness of jobs in our sector.

Indeed, Tecma has continued to grow in terms of headcount as well as in terms of revenue at the same time as constantly refining our use of new technologies in the automation and AI domain. In addition to simple headcount growth, the jobs we’ve been creating are increasingly far from resembling the physically demanding, repetitive, low-skill jobs that many people seem to associate with manufacturing.

If you'd like to learn more about our take on this relationship between automation, AI and the creation of high-skill jobs, check out the longer version of this piece on our company blog.