The phrase “fight for talent” arose more than 20 years ago and gradually, the situation has certainly not improved. The effort to attract and most importantly, keep talented employees is a daily challenge across all fields.

There are many job positions offered in the field of industry production, however, the labour market currently doesn’t have a sufficient amount of qualified people that could fill the gap. Demographic development is no reason for optimism either.

Will the emphasis on better recruitment be enough?

One of the ways to deal with this situation is the effort to constantly improve recruitment techniques and intensively develop employee programs. A whole myriad of companies are presenting themselves at work fairs, as well as promote and offer sophisticated benefits for their employees. A lot of entrepreneurs turn attention towards the resources of potential employees that have previously been marginalised. Older people, mothers with kids or fresh school graduates without any experience can be taken as an example.

However, regardless of how effective methods of getting and keeping employees are used by the enterprise, all free positions in production won’t be taken. It’s going to be necessary to focus on strategies that offer greater performance with a lower amount of employees in the long run.

Greater performance with less employees

How can enterprises, despite the lack of working forces, reach maximum performance? By task automation with the greatest rate of repeatability and error rate and process standardization. These easy looking steps will significantly decrease the level of risk. When choosing the suitable technological platform, it will be much easier for the existing employees to perform the specified activities the right way.

What benefits do modern technologies bring?

  • Increase in productivity and elimination of mistakes caused by the human factor through process digitalization
  • Control and greater effectivity thanks to harmony of production processes which come right from a high quality plan based on simulation techniques
  • Control of work quality using the built in mechanisms
  • Helping operators and management to make decisions in real time, based on current information, and therefore achieve optimal performance

Modern automated and robotic systems belong to currently used technologies that bring a number of benefits. Greater effectivity, mistake elimination and process acceleration are very pleasant bonuses. These technologies are however becoming crucial as a solution to lack of qualified workforce.