Digital Jobs for Industry 5.0

The project under the 2023 call for innovation projects from the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, entitled “Digital Jobs for Industry 5.0”, has made it possible to develop an applied learning environment based on digitalised job roles, focused on the assembly of real products within a pedagogical scenario known as a Learning Factory. This is understood as a semi-industrial environment in which conditions close to real production settings are replicated.

The project has initially been integrated into the following vocational training programmes: Administration and Finance, Industrial Automation and Robotics, Production Programming in Mechanical Manufacturing, Mechanical Design, Industrial Mechatronics, and Executive Assistance (70 students), promoting an interdisciplinary understanding of Industry 5.0.

Its main contribution has been to place the person at the centre of technological transformation, ensuring that both students and teachers not only learn to use advanced technologies, but also understand their impact on work organisation, participation, decision-making, ergonomics, sustainability, and continuous improvement.

The project has been developed in collaboration with IES Cotes Baixes in Alcoy and the company Aurrelan S.L., creating at the Alcoy school an installation similar to the one developed at Miguel Altuna.

The technology implemented has been designed as a tool to assist people, not to replace them. Digital work instructions, computer vision, augmented reality, traceability systems, MES integration, in-process inspection, and safe collaborative industrial robotics, among other support systems, enable guided activity, error reduction, increased user autonomy and safety, and facilitate learning in a real or simulated production context.