Skilled talents are an important driving force for serving regional economic transformation and upgrading and technological innovation in the manufacturing industry. "China's Hardware Capital" Zhejiang Yongkang, as the country's largest hardware production base and professional market, has more than 53,000 hardware manufacturing enterprises and 543,600 employees. At present, the total number of skilled talents in Yongkang is seriously lacking, and senior technical and technical talents only account for 2.8% of the employees, which is far from meeting the needs of the sustainable development of the hardware industry. At the same time, the traditional training mode of skilled personnel is difficult to meet the requirements of the transformation and upgrading of hardware enterprises for the specifications and quality of skilled personnel in terms of training concepts, training levels, and training methods.

In view of the difficult problems such as the target positioning of skilled talents in vocational schools and the development of the hardware industry, the demand for talents is dislocated, and the quality of skilled personnel training is out of touch with the transformation and upgrading needs of the hardware industry chain. Skilled personnel training field, new product development test field, technical problem solving field, and hardware maker experience field are four functional field training platforms. The whole experience of product design, processing and manufacturing, technological innovation, collaborative management and other links solves the problems of backward skills training equipment and low skill level for students.

Skilled personnel training ground:

Established a hardware digital manufacturing base

Create a new highland for skilled talents

The school integrates advantageous resources to form a "skilled talent training ground" - a training and practice base for hardware digital manufacturing. The training ground benchmarks the production standards of hardware enterprises, and purchases a batch of advanced processing equipment including Demag five-axis machining centers with the same specifications as the enterprise. Following the principle of "full product cycle", there are more than 20 training rooms. Fully undertake external processing projects of precision hardware products.

The training ground is committed to cultivating the precision processing technology of students' products. The "production week" production practice activities are designed on a weekly basis to ensure that each class regularly participates in the production week training. In addition, the training ground is fully connected with the job settings and standards of hardware enterprises, and a batch of typical apprenticeship positions with high technical content and popular in the market are selected and customized. Learn and master one or more precision machining skills.

Wu Shiping is a student who just graduated in 2021. During his school days, he often participated in practical training of real knives and real guns such as technical improvement and process transformation, and accumulated a lot of technical experience. As soon as he graduated, he received the "Yongkang Yulong Technology Co., Ltd." Olive Branch" and successfully obtained a job with a monthly salary of 7,000 yuan. Zhu Yuxuan, a senior high school student majoring in CNC, won the first prize in the 2021 National Vocational College Skills Competition for Industrial Product Design and Maker Practice (Secondary Vocational Group). He said, "The honors won in the competition make me more confident in the CNC industry. develop". "We not only need to cultivate high-level craftsmen for Yongkang, but also send first-class technical talents to China and the world." Jiang Jin, a teacher at the training center, showed his confidence.

New product development test field

Established Hardware Industry Research Center

Create a new hardware distribution center

With the increasingly urgent needs of hardware companies to absorb cutting-edge technologies, the Yongkang Municipal Government took the lead, the school and the School of Electronic Information of Xidian University, Zhejiang University of Technology, listed hardware manufacturing enterprises, and Yongkang Mould Industry Association jointly established the "New Product Development". "Proving Ground" - Hardware Industry Research Center, focusing on building three R&D bases, namely 3D industrial product design and R&D base, door industry automation production R&D base, precision mold intelligent manufacturing R&D base, and comprehensively undertake new door product research and development, hardware mold research and development, etc. The project has the advantage of undertaking the research and development of hundreds of new products.

The proving ground is committed to cultivating students' hardware industry design skills. On a monthly basis, the "service month" engineering-study alternation activity is launched to allow teachers and students to participate in the whole process of training and practice, such as creative design, 3D printing, and sample processing of new products, and students can learn and master craftsmanship Design, 3D modeling, 3D molding and other design capabilities. The proving ground has successfully incubated and formed a number of precision hardware product catalogs, including new material application, new process design, finishing technology, etc., developed by students, which effectively meet the students' learning needs of "diversified skills".

In the Industrial Research Center, Ma Lingang, the vice president of the school, introduced the heat sink installation project developed for Hongyun Industry. This project can effectively solve the problem of low efficiency of manual installation and greatly improve the economic benefits of the enterprise.

Technical problem solving field

Established Yongkang Hardware College of Zhejiang University of Technology

Create an incubator for technological achievements

The school found in the survey that 63.5% of the local small and medium-sized hardware enterprises are keen on technological transformation projects such as process transformation and technological improvement. Yongkang Institute of Hardware, University of Technology came into being. Through the establishment of a number of high-level teacher innovation teams led by 12 college professors and 17 school teachers (including national skill masters, national technical experts, national gold medal coaches, etc.), teachers and students are led to participate in the practice of technical improvement projects. For example, Sheng Yiyuan, a national skill master, established a tin carving innovation team to undertake technical research on tin carving intangible cultural heritage projects; 13 national gold medal coaches established a precision hardware technical service innovation team to undertake the process design and fixture transformation business of hardware products.

The research field is committed to cultivating students' innovative skills and innovative thinking, and carries out "innovation season" post-job practice activities on a quarterly basis. Through the whole process of assembly, quality inspection, etc., teachers and students can learn and master one or more innovative skills and innovative thinking abilities including production process improvement, tooling and fixture transformation, and technological innovation and improvement.

"We undertake the functions of external technical services and school-enterprise cooperation, solve technical problems for enterprises, deliver skilled talents, and realize the implementation of concept products. It is a 'booster' for industrial transformation and upgrading." Xia Bin, a teacher in the school's technical service department, said, It is not only an incubation place for high-level skilled talents, but also a place for tackling key technical problems that are deeply trusted by enterprises in Yongkang and surrounding areas.