Environmental Scan 2017: Human Capital Issues within the Medical Devices Sector
3.2.2 Skill Sets with High Demand
Industry players believe that the following skill sets will see increasing demand in the next 12
months:
Table 3-12: Skill sets that companies will see increasing demand in the next 12 months
Surgical/Medical Gloves
Industry 4.0
Automation SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition)
Ability to handle international regulatory requirements
Skills to operate gloves manufacturing machine
Basic computer skills
Other Medical Consumables
Maintenance and operation of machines (CNC programming, PLC programming, injection
moulding of medical parts, ID Band Machinery)
Automation / robotics (packaging and testing)
Industrial Engineering (ME, IE &PE)
Sterilisation process (computer based handling of EtO gas chamber)
Gold Synthesis Reactor
Interpersonal skills / Communication skills
Lean, Kaizen
Problem solving / critical thinking
Regulatory requirements
Basic computer and IT based skills
Non-consumables
Skills to operate CNC machine (e.g. screw cells, grinding) and milling machine
Ability to use various software related to machining, e.g. AutoCAD, Solidworks, Mastercam,
and others
3D modelling in manufacturing synthetic bone construct
Mentor Graphics and Allegro
Automation of dispensing and packaging
TIG / MIG welding
Skill to analyze SMT (Surface Mount Technology) defects
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