The future of factory jobs

The future of factory jobs

Not your grandfather’s manufacturing: Industry 4.0 is giving Singapore manufacturing a new lease of life – but with different jobs in tow. Can the skills keep up? BT ILLUSTRATION: SIMON ANG

PEOPLE are usually surprised when they find out that 49-year-old Azizul Syed is an assistant robotics engineer.

"Most would expect someone much younger – they are either supportive or sceptical," says Mr Azizul, who has worked for more than 20 years in German sensor manufacturing firm Pepperl+Fuchs. But he takes their expectations and assumptions in his stride. As an industry veteran, he has seen first-hand how the manufacturing landscape has […]

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