1. Analysis of the Needs of Industry from the Questionnaire Returns
21st January 2004
NPL, Teddington
Paul Nesvadba
The Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen UK

2. Questionnaire and Registration of Interest
2 Forms on
Registration of Interest
Questionnaire
To date (5th January 2004)
127 Registrations
96 Questionnaire Returns
188 Distinct addresses

3. What can we learn from the returns?
Details of the respondents
, website addresses, type of business
Country - not always!
Industrial Sector
Size of company

4. 17 Countries Responding
to Q

5. 25 Countries from RoIs
Top 19
countries

6. Industrial Sectors

7. 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”

8. 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

9. What is the single most important thing?
No of responses

10. Types of Properties

11. Temperature Ranges

12. Ways of providing the data
Up to 5th January 2004

13. Interested in thermal training courses?

14. Areas of courses

15. Interested in contributing
to the development of EVITHERM?

16. Level of participation

17. Specific information required
Up to 5th January 2004

18. Other Languages

19. Suggestions

20. “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

23. Thank you for listening
I am happy to answer your questions ...

25. Size of the companies : number of employees
Profile of the respondents
Size of the companies : number of employees