Target

The LEONARDO DA VINCI project “CM ProWork transfer” (Competence Management Production Work) aims at displaying competences used and developed by workers (with and without specific professional training) in their production activity with the aid of a software tool. At the same time, the tool is meant to support the operational competence management in the company. Systematic collecting and enhancing of individual and group oriented competences verifiably helps production companies to maintain their productivity, quality and flexibility in competition and measure up to innovation challenges of the markets. CM ProWork provides the chance to include the production divisions and especially the target group of workers into the competence development strategies of the whole company. The project can be allocated to the educational goal of the EU: making results of non-formal learning transparent and comparable.

Testing of a software tool in the project

The multilingual software tool CM ProWork is currently further developed for the competence management in production systems. The focus of the tool development is the operation competence in the domain of industrial productive activities. The tool is able to display the competences acquired by learning in the process of work in a task-related and process-related way. The tool also facilitates comparisons between companies concerning the acquisition of competences.

Application of the tool

This software tool enables production management and human resources development in industry to register and describe staff competences in production, to identify learning requirements related to tasks and individuals, to adapt competence development strategies accordingly and to optimise task allocation and the corresponding work organisation.