Xinsong Education: Talent Cultivation in the Age of Intelligence

In the process of preventing and controlling the "new coronavirus" epidemic, in order to reduce the risk of epidemic transmission, it can be seen that robots can replace relevant personnel to perform operations, and are used in many scenarios such as medical diagnosis and treatment, isolation protection, logistics and distribution, and rapid body temperature detection. It has been effectively used, and people's awareness of robotic, unmanned, and intelligent applications has been improved. In the process of resuming work and production, manufacturers are facing problems such as labor shortages and epidemic prevention and control in factories, which have also stimulated manufacturers' demand for industrial robots and automated production lines to a certain extent. This epidemic may prompt manufacturers to accelerate the promotion of factories. Automatic and intelligent upgrade.

"However, behind the epidemic's stimulation of enterprise intelligence, talent training for future intelligent manufacturing is inseparable," Fan Cunyan, CEO of SIASUN Education Technology Group (hereinafter referred to as SIASUN Education), was interviewed by CEConlines. It is said that this epidemic is also a process for enterprises to think deeply about future talent management and employment models. In response to future changes in production methods or development models, enterprises must be forward-looking and do a good job in talent layout in advance and accelerate the training of talents. In 2017, China accounted for 51% of emerging artificial intelligence projects in the world, surpassing the United States in number. However, China has only about 5% of the global artificial intelligence talent pool, and the artificial intelligence talent gap exceeds 5 million.

In fact, talent training is also an urgent problem that China needs to solve to accelerate the development of intelligent manufacturing. The lack of professionals in the field of intelligent manufacturing has become a common problem that hinders Chinese enterprises from transforming into intelligent manufacturing. In Fan Cunyan's view, the talent gap of intelligent manufacturing is mainly due to the change of production mode, which requires those "compound" and "innovative" talents. Specifically, under the current production mode, the tasks of production personnel are relatively simple and direct, and most of them only need to be responsible for a single type of work. Under the transformation of production methods brought about by intelligent manufacturing, the work tasks of production personnel have become more complex and comprehensive, and the positions tend to be more complex types of work; the professional knowledge and experience of the original production personnel are facing great updating requirements. It is necessary to transform into comprehensive talents with technology, knowledge, innovation and management.

Especially at the moment, the mismatch between the needs of enterprises for talents and the transformation of intelligent manufacturing is becoming more and more prominent. Fan Cunyan said that there is a huge gap in the employment of enterprises now, but the company's own training capabilities cannot keep up. She pointed out that the core is to start with socialized education, especially the improvement of vocational education, and the educational institutions and talent training models need to undergo great changes.

Opening up the "training chain"

According to official data, SIASUN Education is a vocational education platform under SIASUN Group, the largest robotics company in China, and is affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The organic combination of education, technology and industry mainly focuses on the cultivation of high-end application-oriented intelligent manufacturing talents. Home has an educational platform with German vocational education institutions.

As an enterprise that promotes the professional education of intelligent manufacturing talents earlier in China, SIASUN Education has formed a set of its own concept system for the cultivation of intelligent manufacturing talents. In Fan Cunyan's view, education is not an isolated teaching, but only by adhering to the concept of technology-led, continuing to invest in related technology research to stay ahead, organically integrating the latest technology with education, enabling technology to empower education, and intelligently manufacturing the profession of talents Only by cultivating education can we keep up with the needs of industrial development and be forward-looking in the way of talent training.

In fact, Fan Cunyan's remarks also reflect the increasingly prominent lag problem of current vocational education teaching. From the perspective of the industry, in the past, China's industrial adjustment mainly focused on the industry itself, and often did not pay attention to the human resources behind it. Therefore, the shortage of professional talents in the current transformation is prominent, and traditional colleges and socialized vocational education have also been due to long-term follow-up. The specific industry is out of touch, lags behind the latest market demand, and lacks foresight.

For example, Fan Cunyan pointed out that traditional colleges and universities have not changed much in terms of majors and curriculum settings over the years, which are out of sync with the upgrading of industrial structures, resulting in a huge disconnect between graduates and the actual talent needs of enterprises, and the actual work needs. Low application ability. In addition, she also pointed out a systemic lack of current education, that is, the mismatch between the entire education system and industrial changes; from the perspective of industry personnel, for example, engineers may mainly think from the perspective of a certain process in the past, and with the With the transformation of production methods brought about by intelligent manufacturing, engineers need to think about problems from the entire intelligent production line and overall process, and the comprehensive requirements for them have greatly increased. However, the current education actually lags far behind these specific industrial needs.

In view of the current disconnect between the education chain and the industrial chain, the country has also accelerated the development of vocational education in recent years. In 2019, the Ministry of Education, the National Development and Reform Commission and other national ministries jointly launched the "1+X Certificate System" It is an important example, 1 refers to the academic certificate, and X refers to a number of vocational skill grade certificates.

Fan Cunyan told CEConlines that the policy can systematically solve the problem of talent gaps in enterprises in the transformation of intelligent manufacturing. In fact, it is promoting two markets. One is traditional college education, which has undergone a lot of changes in teaching content, teaching methods, and talent training methods. She emphasized that only by accelerating education in these two areas can we gradually solve the problem of talent gap and matching degree in the current enterprise intelligent manufacturing transformation.

As far as socialized vocational education is concerned, it is necessary to form a relatively complete system of thinking. Taking Xinsong Education as an example, from the perspective of education chain and talent chain, after the wholly-owned acquisition of German Tautloff Vocational Training Institute, it has absolute management rights over it, and can export German high-quality courses and teaching methods to China; Affiliated to the education industry platform of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and SIASUN Robotics, SIASUN Education can obtain educational resources of high-end application technologies of the two, industrialization of SIASUN Robotics' scientific and technological achievements, and practical experience injection of skilled talents. In terms of professional training teachers and talents, we have double-trained lecturer resources from the three front lines of research and development, technology and production.

Fan Cunyan pointed out that rich domestic and foreign educational resources and a team of teachers with both theory and practice can continuously meet the market demand, which is the solution to the current teaching model outdated, content out of touch with the industry and other vocational education shortcomings. Strong support.

From the perspective of the industrial chain and technology chain, Fan Cunyan told the CEConlines that the SIASUN VR Research Institute, a subsidiary of SIASUN Education, is an example of the effective combination of R&D and industrial applications. Focusing on research and development in manufacturing, medical, and military industries, the SIASUN VR Research Institute and the Fraunhofer IFF Research Institute in Germany will jointly build technologies to create a highland for R&D applications, and industrialization will be formed through the construction of the SIASUN AVR Science and Technology Innovation Park. SIASUN Education itself has always insisted on investing in scientific research and also pays great attention to cooperation in scientific research and technology in Sino-German cooperation. All of these enable SIASUN Education to have a deep understanding of the entire industry chain, timely understanding of industrial technology iterations, corporate positions and changes in talent needs, and continue to empower education through the integration of new technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, AI, and VR. The advanced scientific research results are integrated into different links of education such as teaching resources and teaching methods, and cultivate intelligent manufacturing talents that are highly matched with enterprises.

In terms of talent training, SIASUN Education promotes the organic connection between the education chain and the industrial chain, the technology chain and the talent chain, and explores a talent training model for intelligent manufacturing that is highly applicable to the current and future. This is also an effective reference path to solve China's current problems of disconnected vocational education and industrial talent gap.

Cooperation first

Promoting the talent training model of "school-enterprise cooperation, industry-education integration" is also an important way for the development of vocational education in my country, and in recent years, national policies have also strongly supported And improve the vocational education and talent training system based on enterprise production and future development, and deepen the integration and cooperation between all parties.

However, although everyone is talking about integration and cooperation, China is still chaotic in this regard and lacks a more unified plan and benchmark. Fan Cunyan pointed out that education is very professional. For example, how should enterprises participate in education? All parties must clarify their own positions, give full play to their respective advantages, and integrate advantageous resources, so that mutual cooperation can be effective and generate new value.

Taking Xinsong Education as an example, it took the lead in introducing the "dual system" concept in German vocational education guided by the analysis of occupation and vocational ability in talent training, and on this basis, proposed the "new dual system" concept. Yuan" education system, SIASUN Education started to establish a "2+2" training model with colleges and universities in 2019. That is to say, the two-year theoretical courses are taught by traditional colleges and universities, and Xinsong Education has participated in the conference in various aspects such as curriculum, teaching, and teachers. In the third year, Xinsong Education organized courses in the professional direction combined with practice, and went to the engineering site to learn and practice; Fan Cunyan said that the teachers who taught in the third year were strictly selected from engineers with rich practical experience and management experience. Possess a wealth of theoretical and practical knowledge. The fourth year is followed by more distinctive specific project practice training, participating in customer sites and undertaking practical work.

This highly involved and integrated school-enterprise cooperation mechanism is also an important way to solve the current shortcomings of vocational education. On the basis of the professional and technical knowledge acquired by the students in the school, the training teachers can further effectively guide the practical teaching. At the same time, they can practice in the specific intelligent production and teaching environment of the enterprise, and cultivate comprehensive abilities such as machine operation, independent thinking and teamwork.

Fan Cunyan said that school-enterprise cooperation should be planned from the aspects of talent training, professional development, teacher training, and training base construction, and deepen cooperation from both "soft" and "hard" aspects.

From the perspective of enterprises, Fan Cunyan suggested that enterprises should cooperate with the outside world for talents that are currently not available and in short supply in the market, deepen cooperation with colleges and educational institutions, and adopt the method of "co-training". According to the company's development strategy, production methods, product characteristics and other plans, the customized training of talents is carried out. Fan Cunyan told the world's managers that this is actually like the German "dual yuan" concept. The enterprise itself is one yuan, and the external professional organization is the second yuan; the enterprise itself has some experience and can train itself, and some other abilities and knowledge are required. With the help of outside professional agencies.

From the perspective of the education platform built by intelligent equipment manufacturing enterprises such as Siasong for intelligent manufacturing talents, Fan Cunyan said that it is necessary to pay more attention to the integration of technology and education, give full play to the advantages of enterprises, and empower them from research and development and practice. To be able to educate, give full play to the maximum effect of science and technology in the education industry, and strengthen foreign cooperation in scientific research. In terms of Xinsong Education, it is also a research and development institution, and it has close scientific research cooperation with relevant institutions in Germany, such as the world-renowned German Fraunhofer Institute IFF in robotics, virtual reality technology, human-machine collaboration, etc. There are cooperation in scientific research and development and training in various fields, and some scientific research processes and products developed can be transformed into teaching products in the future.

Fan Cunyan said to the CEConlines: "Solving the problem of intelligent manufacturing talent gap and training is inseparable from the coordination and cooperation of all parties. It cannot be said that only one party can solve it completely. Universities, governments and Relevant enterprises need to interact more with each other and seek more integration and cooperation." She finally said that it is recommended that at the national level, the government should promote cooperation between key enterprises, key universities and other parties, and establish a model that can be used for reference. The learning benchmark, as a typical demonstration to promote to the whole society.