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).