Study title

Company profile, product structure, use of technology in the company, qualification, personnel structure, production structure. Use of computer-aided technologies and conventional technologies in mechanical engineering, work organization in production. Topics: Company profile: individual company; cooperation with other companies; proportion of distributed processing in product manufacturing; company manufacturing and out-sourced processes in product manufacturing; expected development of turnover, personnel development, intensity of competition and demand development in the next few years; current order back-log; concentration of management function in the company on a single person; existence of longer-term delivery relations; number of departments, organizational structure and hierarchies of the company; turnover. Product structure: proportion of turnover of the most important product groups; production of standard products or production according to customer specification; new introduction of innovative products or further development of current products; assessment of future development of product structure. Use of technology in the company: use of computer-aided technologies in production and management; use of NC/CNC machines, CAD and DNC systems; use of computer-aided work planning and programming (CAP) as well as computer-aided quality control (CAQ); use of computer-aided inventory systems, control systems and production planning systems (PPS) as well as use of company expert systems; proportion of computer-aided processing machines; network of computer-aided systems in different company function areas; last system network, type of interfaces and reasons for selection. Personnel structure: information on number of employees and degree of qualification in the different production areas; change of number of employees in the last year. Production structure: proportion of mass-production, small-scale and large-scale production as well as one-of-a-kind;...