Difference in Thought of Japanese Small and Medium Companies Obtained by Analyzing Questionnaire Results from the Viewpoint of Cost

We have already shown at ITSC2004 that the questionnaire results obtained from job shop small and medium companies in Japan. In this presentation, we would show the results obtained by analyzing questionnaire from the wiewpoint of cost. We show one example here. As for the companies think that their thermal spraying work is profitable rathen than other company's work, expert’s skill is more important for in-process monitoring during thermal spraying. However, as for the companies think that sales obtained from coating is less than that of other companies, they needed expert's skill when doing pretreatment. In this way, the result obtained from our questionnaire would be helpful for establishing company's technological strategy. Abstract only; no full-text paper available.