14th VDMA India Summit 2025

Insights from the VDMA India Summit 2025

We’re proud to have unveiled our 8th VDMA–M+V Altios report, “Future-Ready Workforce 2025,” at the 14th VDMA India Mechanical Engineering Summit in Bangalore by Manish Dwivedi – an event that brought together over 250+ CXOs from German manufacturing companies shaping India’s industrial growth story.

Drawing insights from 70+ global/SMEs VDMA member companies, the report explores how organisations are building future-ready capabilities, bridging the skill gap, and creating a sustainable talent engine for Industry 4.0.

#3 key findings that stood out:

Key Findings

1. 84% of companies see Advanced Engineering and system thinking as top workforce priorities.
2. Only 37% believe their teams are fully ready for hashtag#Industry4_0 technologies.
3. Over 60% invest less than 25% of their training budgets in future-focused skills.

What Leaders Can Do?

– Integrate learning with business goals — make skilling a measurable driver of productivity and innovation.
– Collaborate across ecosystems — partner with academia, government, and EdTech to close capability gaps at scale.

It was an honour to release this report in the presence of:

Rajesh Nath – MD,VDMA India, Achim Burkart – Consul General, Germany,Oliver Richtberg – VDMA Frankfurt, Umesh Pai – MD, Eplan, Rajesh Ramachandran – MD, ABB, Ranjan Singh Chadha -NSM, Festo India

We’re grateful to Rajesh Nath and Manohar S for the opportunity, and to all the participating companies for sharing their invaluable insights. Most of our hard copies were already picked up at the event – a true sign of the topic’s relevance.

A special shout-out to our incredible team – Manoj Madachery, Atul Pandey, Visakha Mundra, Shakshi Bisht, Divyanshu Mishra, Bindu Shree and Shailja Singh – for their relentless effort in bringing this project to life.