How to Update your Team's Skills in New Technologies

With the digital transformation of companies, the knowledge and skills related to new technologies become essential for the engineering sector.

13:33 02 December 2019

The constant evolution of technology brings a wide range of new possibilities for optimizing performance and effectiveness with it, reducing time and costs and/or improving quality.

Therefore, the engineers of your team must be up to date with the new tools and technological methodologies to be able to take full advantage of all the improvement potential they offer. Today we are going to tell you a series of guidelines to update the knowledge and skills of your team's engineers, also to adapt them to new technologies through online training.

1. Choose training programs specialized in new technologies
   
   

If you want your team of engineers to properly apply new technologies to work and get performance, you must first offer them a training program specialized in new technologies that will give them a generic view on the subject. Only in this way they will be able to know these tools in depth and all their possibilities allowing them to find the ways of application.

There are companies that has several training programs specialized in new technologies, which will make your team ready for the adaptation of digital transformation. An example of this is the Master in Digital Transformation and Industry 4.0, which offers a global perspective of several technological tools with wide applications to engineering. It is a very complete choice because it addresses a number of technologies such as virtual reality, virtual gaming, live casino, the 3D printing, the Big Data, the robotics, the drones, the IoT or methodologies BIM, Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing ; all of them with great applications within the sector. Teams in virtual gaming or gambling sector must stay in consent touch of technological updates to offer the players the best possible user experience so that it can be enjoyed in the best manner possible. Sites like 13wins, lists online gaming operators following and updating their software to the cutting edge technology.

The companies offering trainings are masters in online mode, so geographical barriers and flexibility of schedules will not be a problem for the team.

2. Choose training programs applicable to the sector
   
   

Once the professionals of your team are properly trained in the technologies applicable to and have acquired a global vision of the possibilities of each of these, it is time to opt for training programs for direct application. These will be useful to specify the knowledge acquired in generic training and will offer your team the opportunity to focus them on their work in the company.

It will depend on the nature of the jobs of your team, the choice of a master or another that suits you in the best way. Training institutes have several programs of this type. Specifically, the BIM Master applied to Civil Engineering or the BIM Master applied to Building or the Master in Intelligent Infrastructures: Smart Cities can be good options if your team is dedicated to the work of design and management of infrastructure or buildings.

If, on the other hand, your team is focused on work on site, the Master in Operational Applications of Drones in Engineering will show you how to use these tools to optimize your different activities.

3. Opt for constantly updated training
   
   

Since the technology sector is advancing by leaps and bounds, you should not skip updating the contents periodically as one of the main factors based on which to make your choice. Training programs are at the forefront of the sector, thanks to its constant review of content and adaptation.

And you want to put new technologies at your service to improve the efficiency of your work team? Don't wait any longer to do it!