Skill Transfer from Expert to Novice – Instruction Manuals Made by Means of Groupware

Abstract

Modern manufacturing industry changes dramatically following the fast progress of mechanical improvement and informatics development. Young people focus on learning new techniques in order to catch up the fast progress. Traditional industrial skills are missing step by step that will be a problem for modern industrial manufactures. The technological generation gap also causes damage in manufacturing industry. Elder experts who accumulated many traditional industrial skills faced the problems of retirement and strict competition. Young novices receive modern industry technique trainings, but still require traditional skill to maintain the industrial manufacture. The skill transmission from elder expert to young novice is known as an important course. In Japan, industry pays a lot of concern at the decline in mastery of skills technology. Based on the importance and difficulties of skill transmissions, an idea model was searched and established in this study. We choice screw manufacture as a representative industry in this study because screw manufacture required traditional skills and modern techniques. A manual introducing traditional skill and integrating computer science could transmit technologies smoothly from elder expert to young novice. Computer science here is used to link generation gap, to introduce traditional skill delicately in order to keep all the detail tricks and lively in order to be accepted by novice. The transmission efficiency and efficacy both will be considered.KeywordsTacit KnowledgeExplicit KnowledgeSECI ModelSkill TransferIndustrial Technology Research InstituteThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.