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

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; extent of machine operators or activities conducted by
computer-aided business equipment in the individual work processes;
bundling of task distribution; extent of self-determination of machine
operators; use of multi-machine systems and number of employees in this
area; detailed information on number of employees in production areas
and their degree of qualification; change of number of employees in the
last year; arrangement of working hours; personnel problems in various
groups of colleagues; measures against personnel shortages; conducting
company measures for further education; number of participants and
degree of qualification of participants in such qualification measures;
attitude to company qualification measures (scale); group work in the
area of production; size of such teams; composition of these teams
according to qualified employees; tasks taken on by these teams;
conventional or computer-aided production technologies with these
teams; firm assignment of employees to teams; general characterization
of such teams; number of hierarchy levels between machine operators and
management; most important personnel policy goals (scale).