Abstract

The purpose of this research is to study the gap between industry expectations and the current competencies of bachelor’s degree industrial engineering graduates in Khon Kaen University in Thailand 4.0 era so that the research results of this study may be used as the guideline for improvement of the existing Bachelor of Engineering Degree program in Industrial Engineering in Khon Kaen University. A literature survey was conducted to determine appropriate indicators for assessing Thailand’s readiness for Industry 4.0. These indicators were further screened by 17 industrial experts using the Delphi method. Twenty-five competency performance indicators were finally adopted and sent in questionnaires to 71 industrial factories and 60 industrial engineering engineers freshly graduated from Khon Kaen University to rate the competency indicators with scores ranging from 1–5. The data were collected and analyzed to determine the gaps between the industry expectations and the current competencies of the graduates. The results of the analysis revealed that the greatest gaps were found, in descending order, delivery management, data usage, and data analytics in the usage phase. These are the areas which must be closely considered when the study program is revised. On the other hand, the smallest gaps were found, in ascending order, for innovation management, cloud usage, ICT add-on functionalities and technology in production, indicating the strength of the industrial engineering degree program of the case study university.

摘要

本研究的目的是研究泰国4.0时代孔敬大学工业工程本科毕业生的行业期望与当前能力之间的差距，以便将本研究的研究结果作为改进现有技术的指南。孔敬大学工业工程学士学位课程。进行了一项文献调查，以确定评估泰国工业 4.0 准备情况的适当指标。这些指标由17位行业专家使用德尔菲法进一步筛选。最终采用了 25 项胜任力绩效指标，并以问卷的形式向 71 家工业工厂和 60 名刚从孔敬大学毕业的工业工程工程师以 1-5 分的分数对胜任力指标进行评分。收集和分析数据以确定行业期望与毕业生当前能力之间的差距。分析结果显示，在使用阶段，按降序排列，交付管理、数据使用和数据分析发现了最大的差距。这些是修改学习计划时必须密切考虑的领域。另一方面，按照升序，在创新管理、云使用、ICT 附加功能和生产技术方面发现了最小的差距，