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. Topics: Company profile: individual companies; cooperation with other companies; area of business affiliation; company production and out-sourced processes in product manufacturing; expected turnover development, personnel development, intensity of competition and demand development in the next few years; number of departments, organizational structure and hierarchies of the company; turnover. Product structure: proportion of business 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; introduction of new materials in production; assessment of future development of the product structure. Technology use 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. 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; proportion of production by the company itself; full utilization of machines and personnel; characterization of various forms of organization and types of production; group work in the area of production; size and composition of the...