Analysis of the Needs of Industry from the Questionnaire Returns 21st January 2004 NPL, Teddington Paul Nesvadba The Robert Gordon University Aberdeen UK
Questionnaire and Registration of Interest 2 Forms on www.evitherm.org Registration of Interest Questionnaire To date (5th January 2004) 127 Registrations 96 Questionnaire Returns 188 Distinct e-mail addresses
What can we learn from the returns? Details of the respondents E-mail, website addresses, type of business Country - not always! Industrial Sector Size of company
17 Countries Responding to Q
25 Countries from RoIs Top 19 countries
Industrial Sectors
Is the data collected so far “statistically significant”? Sample size? Bias - introduced by the marketing effort of principal contractors? People visiting the site tend to be “pro-active”
Needs of the “Industry” What data or services users need What kind of thermal properties ? Over what temperature ranges ? Knowledge about the use of data, suppliers How these could be delivered to users How users can participate in Evitherm
What is the single most important thing? No of responses
Types of Properties
Temperature Ranges
Ways of providing the data Up to 5th January 2004
Interested in thermal training courses?
Areas of courses
Interested in contributing to the development of EVITHERM?
Level of participation
Specific information required Up to 5th January 2004
Other Languages
Suggestions
“Needs of the Industry” Summary “Needs of the Industry” - Questionnaire = valuable indicator - Possibly still small sample size & bias - Preaching to the converted? - Suggestion field very valuable - Data on thermal properties - Supported by material description - Knowledge about using the data - Supported by Good Practice Guides - Some basic training, e.g. food temperatures
Thank you for listening I am happy to answer your questions ...
Size of the companies : number of employees Profile of the respondents Size of the companies : number of employees