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Thank you for your interest in taking this short survey. We are from Fuld Omniscope, a Boston-headquartered market research firm. We are studying the global robotics industry, specifically:
• The purchase decision criteria of customers • The current dynamics of the market • The installed base of robots in North and South America (initial indications)
We wanted to seek your help in this study given your experience in the industry. We will be happy to share some key findings of our study with you once we complete it. Please note that we aggregate all the responses from these discussions and we don’t attribute them to specific individuals.
We estimate that this short questionnaire will take about 10-15 minutes to answer. Please accept our gratitude in advance for your help! |
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| First Name: | | | | Last Name: | | | | Role/Designation: | | | | Company: | | | | Email Address: | | | | Phone Number (optional): | | |
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How would you describe the main industry for your division of your company? |
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This section would allow us to understand the current dynamics of the market and the perception of the companies about each other. |
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* 1. Which do you think are the leading brands in the industry? |
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2. Please rate the companies according to the level of competition you have with them:
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3. In which industries are these companies strong? (more than one response is allowed)
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| * 4. From your assessment, how big is the installed base of robots in North and South America as of Q3 2014? | | |
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| * 5. What is the total number of robots that your company produces annually? | | |
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| * 6. How many percent of the current installed base that you mentioned are actually your robots? | | |
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Customers and Purchase Decision Factors |
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* 7. In which industries do you provide robots to? (more than one response is allowed) |
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* 7a. What percentage of your annual robotic units go to the automotive industry? |
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* 7b. What percentage of your annual robotics output go to the electronics/semiconductors industry? |
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* 7c. What percentage of your annual robotics output go to the biomedical industry? |
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* 7d. What percentage of your annual robotics output go to the oil and gas industry? |
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* 7e. What percentage of your annual robotics output goes to the metal/metallurgy industry? |
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* 7f. What percentage of your annual robot output goes to the aviation/aerospace industry? |
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* 8. What are the typical criteria your that your customers use to select robot suppliers? (more than one response is allowed) |
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* 9. What route did customers use to reach out to your company to buy robots? (more than one response is allowed) |
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* 10. Who approved the purchase of robots within your customer's organization? |
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Importance of Integrators |
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11. Please rate the importance of having integrators in your business.
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| * 12. Can you name a few integrators that you have worked with in the past? | | |
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| * 13. Please cite an example when integrators greatly helped you with your business. | | |
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| * 14. What new technologies and products are you seeing that may affect the robotics industry in the future? | | |
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* 15. Which sectors in the general industry have the biggest demand? |
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* 16. Which sectors in the general industry do you see growing in the next 3-5 years? |
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| * 17. Are there any current (or emerging) uses and requirements do you see that are not being adequately filled? What are these? Why this is so? | | |
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| * 18. Are there any developments or expansions your company is currently looking at (i.e., geographically? new type/s of robots? new application? new industry?) | | |
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