A research of the medium and small companies' intentions to use a personal cad, a personal CAD/CAM and their present situations in Yamaguchi prefecture

The computer aided design and draft (CADD or CAD) and the computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) are the current technologies extending inevitably in Japanese industries and other companies in places of the ordinary manual design, drawing and manufacturing. The spread of these technologies may be a criterion to judge if the area (for example, a prefecture or a local industrial district) or a company is making efforts to cope with the current technologies or not. Before the last August when we have researched, no such a data has been reported with specially regard to the personal CAD and CAD/CAM in Japan. We had delivered five hundred and forty-six opinionnaires (enqute in French) to the various kinds of enterprises in Yamaguchi prefecture and we got a hundred and seventy-four answers from them (31.9%). These answers were analyzed and expressed in figures and tables which clarify their interests and their present situations in the current technologies. From these results we study that nearly seventy percents of the companies will use the CAD in the very near future and thirty-five percents of them are very much interested in CAD/CAM. The results are given in detail in this report.