Industry 4.0 vs Industry 3.0: the role of personnel in production

The actual task is to prepare the specialists to work in the Industry 4.0 digital companies. There is an analysis of primary informative technologies and production equipment types to be used in the item designing companies of the Industry 3.0 and the Industry 4.0 smart factories. It is clear that knowledge and skills of production workers today are in sufficient to complete analogue working functions in digital companies equipped with cyber and physical systems. Cyber and physical productions are created to deeply automatize the Industry 4.0 smart factories technological processes of the item manufacturing. Cyber and physical productions are applied in digital companies where functioning principles are based with the implementation of humanless and paperless technologies into production activity. There is a scheme of operator and numeric control machine interaction, which are applied in the Industry 3.0 companies. There is a scheme of cyber and physical system and operator interaction in the Industry 4.0 digital production. It is clear that the Industry 4.0 specialists preparation must be initiated today in parallel with advanced informative technologies development and production cyber and physical systems.