At present, the problem of labor shortage in the UK plastics industry is serious.

At present, the problem of labor shortage in the UK plastics industry is serious.

The production of enterprises is inseparable from the employees of mechanical equipment and operating equipment. How to operate these high-tech equipments is a hot skill. The talents in this field are the focus of an industry. Now some unpopular industries are hard to find and difficult to recruit. It has become a problem faced by many industries in China. At present, it is at the critical stage of the global transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing industries, but it is often faced with the embarrassing situation that “equipment is easy to obtain and skilled workers are hard to find”.

Although the modern manufacturing service industry of China's machinery industry has achieved certain results, it has a large gap compared with the developed countries. The development level is still in its infancy, and there is a small overall scale, low level, unreasonable structure, and system. Problems such as the lag of reform and mechanism innovation. The backward development of modern manufacturing service industry has become a weak link that restricts China's manufacturing industry to accelerate the adjustment of industrial structure and transform economic growth mode.

Equipment manufacturing companies are abandoning the traditional scale business model and turning to intelligent development. According to the forecast of high-yield production and research by industry research institutions, the output value of industrial robots in China is 310 billion to 688 billion yuan. According to expert analysis, the robot industry chain includes upstream key components, midstream complete machines and downstream applications. Among them, the upstream China is lacking, and the gap with foreign technology is large. Therefore, international robotics companies have rushed to the Chinese market. In foreign countries, the British Plastics Federation (BPF) conducted a public opinion survey on plastics companies in the case of recruitment. The survey results show that the entire British plastics industry is also facing the dilemma of labor shortage and recruitment. In its latest survey report, BPF pointed out that the current employment situation in the UK plastics industry has deteriorated compared with the second half of last year. More than one-third of the companies surveyed said that this year workers are not good at recruiting, and skilled workers are even more difficult. In the polls of the same period last year, nearly two-thirds of companies were optimistic about recruiting, and they said that recruiting workers was a breeze. However, today this value has dropped to 44%.

Affected by the recruitment difficulties, many UK-related plastics companies said that although the current economic environment and industry trends have begun to recover, for the sake of conservatism, they have no plans to invest or expand production this year. According to BPF, in addition to human factors, energy issues such as electricity and crude oil are important factors that hinder the UK plastics industry from making a big splash this year. Forty-three percent of respondents said that the crazy rise in electricity prices puts them under enormous cost pressures. Once the business is not good, the company will face the risk of shuffling.

To overcome this problem, there are actually many ways. It is important to choose the most appropriate method. At present, you can alleviate the current difficulties by raising the salary of employees, but this is a way to cure the symptoms. To solve the problem fundamentally or to improve the performance and function of the equipment, to the full automation of production, mechanical replacement of labor is the fundamental solution to the problem.