| The ubiquitous employment of advanced technology has revolutionized the manufacturing industry. One such technology is computer-aided design (CAD). This quantitative research study examined the question of whether the size of a given manufacturing organization influenced the extent to which CAD was used. An online survey was conducted, and 100 employees---each working for a different manufacturing organization---were canvassed. In addition to questions pertaining to size, the survey instrument posed certain ancillary questions pertaining to each organization's ability to afford CAD technology, its capacity for CAD training, and its level of onsite CAD expertise. In all categories, low to no correlation was found between the size of manufacturing organizations and the extent to which they use CAD. The researcher concluded that other influencing factors, unrelated to organizational size or CAD cost, training, or expertise, contributed to the extent to which CAD is used within manufacturing organizations and made recommendations for further research. |
