In order to best help you reduce your product development costs, please
answer the following questions:
1) Do you design and engineer castings, order castings, or manufacture
castings? (check all that apply)
Design and engineer castings
Order castings
Manufacture castings
2) How many new castings do you engineer, order, or produce each year?
<10
10-50
50-100
>100
3) Which of the following statements would be most true:
Decreasing product development costs has been mandated.
Decreasing product development costs is an active corporate objective.
Decreasing product development costs is a wish-list goal.
We are investigating ways to decrease product development costs.
We are satisfied with current product development processes.
4) On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 meaning of little or no importance and
5 meaning extremely important, please rate the following product development process
improvements as they relate to your company's products:
Reducing the product development cycle
Reducing average product weight
Reducing average product cost
Decreasing the number of tooling changes
Increasing number and rate of "what if" design scenarios prior to committing to a tool build
5) Please indicate any of the following software resources you have in
house: (check all that apply)
2-D CAD Software
3-D CAD Software
CAM Software Simulation or Analysis Software
Database Management Software
Other
Please Specify if "Checked"
6) How would you rate the integration of your various software resources
in-house?
Very integrated
Somewhat integrated
Not integrated
7) How would you rate the integration of your various software resources
with your suppliers and vendors?
Very integrated
Somewhat integrated
Not integrated
8) How often do you re-create digital data because of software incompatibility?
Often
Occasionally
Never
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