The adoption of technologies enabling the fourth industrial revolution (I4.0) performs a crucial role in delivering reduced costs and improving both the flexibility and sustainability of manufacturing systems, thus creating the opportunity to achieve more resilient and sustainable supply networks. In this fast-changing context, professionals need a twofold enrichment. On one hand, they have the necessity to extend their technical knowledge to influence design changes and production efficiency toward sustainable manufacturing. On the other hand, they need to acquire those soft skills useful to make the transition both effective and accepted by the company ecosystem. This paper aims at presenting the approach adopted in the creation of asynchronous online learning courses willing to leverage actual gaps in existing professionals' curricula. Before the courses' development, three main steps have been performed: the identification of target profiles, the skills gap analysis, and finally the definition of a skills maturity model. The development of the content has been performed in a one-year horizon project, focusing especially on two topics: i) innovation and change management; ii) introduction to sustainable production. The courses have been tailored to empower those selected profiles (i.e., white collars) able to keep on the changing pace and bring forward business transformation projects towards more eco-efficient and sustainable production systems.

skills gap assessment; e-content development; asynchronous learning; professionals upskilling; sustainability; digitalization.