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Human talent, ethics, competencies, and commitment are at the core of the safety and value creation that NDE processes provide to our world which impact comprise our infrastructure, transportation equipment, installations, facilities, habitable spaces, and even many everyday objects whose safety and value are intrinsically connected to a human perspective of NDE. In parallel, constraints in knowledge, skills, acquired experience, ethical behavior, or motivation impairs safety and the value of NDE is able to create.
In the dawn of NDE 4.0, training and work force reorientation play a central role in shaping the professional path of new talent, provide stability, and develop opportunities for active practitioners and contribute to preserve and transmit the accumulated knowledge of experienced generations of NDE practitioners.
Industry 4.0 is compelling to revise the roles NDE practitioners, trainers, and mentors which are immersed not only in the dynamics of exponentially accelerated technological advancements but also in profound social, environmental, and cultural transformations. NDE itself is transitioning from a niche role as quality control support instrument to an invaluable knowledge generating process for creating value through substantial improvements in business sustainability, quality, and safety.
This profound transformation is shaping how Education 4.0 for Industry 4.0 will deliver disruptive modifications in education models, training processes, certification schemes, and support tools. We aim that the reader, either within the personal perspective of the practitioner or from the institutional perspective of companies, academic institutions, or training platforms will find here not only significant strategic frameworks but also practical insights that can contribute to potentialize NDE as a profession towards the future in benefit of all.
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A sincere thankful acknowledgment to Dr. Nathan Ida and Dr. Ripi Singh for their invaluable suggestions for improving the content of this chapter.
A chapter devoted to training and work-force reorientation cannot be complete without some brief words highlighting and recognizing the invaluable service provided to humankind by tenths of thousands of NDE trainers and mentors striving every day in creating a better and safer world. We all owe them an enormous debt of gratitude for their service.
The author himself owes an enormous debt to all his mentors along his professional path, particularly to Benjamin Solis Villa, an unparalleled role model for many Engineering and NDE professionals in Mexico, who with his everyday example and support allowed me to become an NDE practitioner first, and later trainer and mentor of others.
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Fernandez Orozco, R.S. (2021). Training and Workforce Re-Orientation. In: Meyendorf, N., Ida, N., Singh, R., Vrana, J. (eds) Handbook of Nondestructive Evaluation 4.0. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48200-8_23-1
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