Summary information

Study title

Technology and Work Organization in Mechanical Engineering (NIFA-Panel: 1st Wave 1991)

Creator

Widmaier, Ulrich (Sonderforschungsbereich 187, Teilprojekt Z-2, Ruhr-Universität Bochum )
Ehlich, Hartmut (Sonderforschungsbereich 187, Teilprojekt Z-2, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Lehner, F. (Sonderforschungsbereich 187, Teilprojekt Z-2, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Treinen, Heiner (Sonderforschungsbereich 187, Teilprojekt Z-2, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Schmid, J. (Sonderforschungsbereich 187, Teilprojekt Z-2, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Study number / PID

ZA2442, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.2442 (DOI)

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Abstract

Company profile, use of computer-aided technologies, personnel structure and qualification in mechanical engineering production. Topics: Use of computer-aided technologies in production and management; most important reasons for not using computer-aided technologies; use of NC/CNC machines; network of computer-aided components and systems of different company functional areas; proportion of mass-production, small-scale and large-scale production as well as one-of-a-kind; rank order of strategies in product planning; most important business and work policy goals; legal status of the company surveyed; area of business affiliation and company size; classification of number of employees in business areas; proportion of turnover of the most important product groups; production of standard products or according to customer specification; proportion of production by the company itself; assessment of future development of the product structure; characterization of various forms of organization and types of production of current product spectrum; capacity load for machines and personnel; characterization of processing of raw materials; out-sourced procedures of product manufacturing; annual turnover; expected turnover development, personnel development as well as intensity of competition and development of demand in the next few years; most important sales market; number of departments and organizational structure as well as hierarchies of the company; participation in public support programs; last-used computer-aided production technology; year of introduction; most important reasons for introduction of the last-introduced computer-aided technology; detailed information on computer-aided technologies and processes used in the company; proportion of computer-aided processing machines in all of production; organization of computer-aided business equipment according to the device principle or object principle; number of employees using computer-aided business equipment;...
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Methodology

Data collection period

09/1991 - 01/1992

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

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Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Written survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1993

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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