Survey: Your Information & Knowledge Requirements

Welcome to the KIM Survey on Information & Knowledge Requirements. This survey is being organised by the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge as a means of gathering the real information and knowledge needs of industry at present and into the future. Through this effort, we hope to determine how new techniques and technologies for collecting, managing, and utilising design and engineering information can improve the future design of products and services.

Designers, engineers, and managers from all of the industrial partners of the KIM Project and from the wider engineering design communities of practice are being invited to participate in this survey. Our intention is to gather responses from as many businesses across as many industrial sectors as possible so that this survey will be the definitive analysis of what information and knowledge will be essential to future design and engineering work and hence to the profitability of United Kingdom companies.

For further information about the overall research programme, visit the website www.kimproject.org. For questions regarding the survey itself, please contact Dr Peter Heisig (ph350@cam.ac.uk).

The survey will be conducted in two rounds. Participation in the first round does not commit you to participating in the second round. There are only eight questions in the first round. We expect that it should only require a few minutes of your time.

Click on this link to proceed to the first round of the Survey. Please note that you will need Javascript enabled in your browser.

The first round of the survey is already underway and a preliminary analysis of the initial responses has been completed.

The second round of the survey will begin after we have analysed all data collected in the first round. We will then contact respondents who have indicated a desire to continue participating with details on the second round. We will also supply them with an industry-wide analysis of current and future information and knowledge requirements. The second round will involve making judgements on the collated data from the first round. We anticipate that completing the second round will only require ten to fifteen minutes of your time.

Participating and Supporting Companies

This survey is supported by:

  • ABB
  • Airbus UK
  • Balfour Beatty
  • Converteam
  • Eurostep
  • LSC
  • Rolls-Royce
  • UKCeB