Technology Adoption in Canadian Manufacturing - ARCHIVED
Articles and reports: 88F0006X1999005
The study of the adoption and dissemination of technologies is one of the key components of innovation and technological development. Indeed, it is through the adoption of newer, more advanced, technologies that industries can increase their production capabilities, improve their productivity, and expand their lines of new products and services. Surveys on the adoption of new technologies complement other information collected about R&D and innovation, allow the measurement of and how quickly and in what way industries adapt to technological change.
This is the fifth Survey of Advanced Technology in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector. Three surveys of advanced manufacturing technologies were conducted in 1987, 1989 and 1993 (which was part of the Survey of Advanced Technology in Canadian Manufacturing), followed by a survey of the use of biotechnology by Canadian industries, conducted in 1997.
Increasingly, manufacturing industries rely on information technology and telecommunications, computerizing and linking all functions of their production process. This survey puts the emphasis on issues such as the use of communication networks, whether internal (e. g. Local Area Networks) or external (e.g. the Internet).
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August 4, 1999 |
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Keywords
- Aircraft industry
- Analytical products
- Automated materials handling
- Benchmarking
- Beverage industries
- Boat building
- Business activity
- Business machines
- Chemical industries
- Clothing industry
- Coal production
- Competitiveness
- Computer programmers
- Computer science
- Computer software
- Computer-aided design
- Computer-aided engineering
- Computer-integrated manufacturing
- Computers
- Data collection
- Electrical appliances industries
- Electrical equipment
- Electrical products industry
- Electronic mail
- Electronic products
- Electronics industry
- Engineers
- Furniture and fixtures industries
- High technology
- High technology industries
- Information
- Internet
- Investments
- Leather products industry
- Local area networks
- Machinery industries
- Managers
- Manufacturing industries
- Metal industries
- Motor vehicle parts
- Motor vehicles industry
- Networks
- Non-metallic mineral products
- Nonresponse rate
- Occupations
- Paper industries
- Petroleum industry
- Petroleum products
- Plastics industry
- Primary metals
- Printing industry
- Processing
- Product development
- Publishing industries
- Quality control
- Questionnaires
- Record players
- Response rate
- Robots
- Rubber products industry
- Shipbuilding
- Skilled workers
- Skills
- Survey sampling
- Surveys
- Technological innovations
- Technologists and technicians
- Telecommunications
- Textile industry
- Training
- Transport equipment
- University degrees
- Websites
- Wood industries
- World Wide Web
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