NFPA Survey - Artificial Intelligence mini-survey, part one

This is the first of several surveys, and will only take 3 minutes to complete. It is based on comments received from participants in a roundtable discussion at the NFPA Annual Conference. This first survey will focus on customers and partners, as well as industry-level initiatives. Manufacturing and R&D related will be in the next survey.

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* 1. Which of the following best describes your company?

Fluid power manufacturer

Fluid power distributor

Supplier to the fluid power industry

Other

Other (please specify)

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* 2. Which best describes your primary area of responsibility?

Executive Management

General Management

Engineering, R&D, and Design

Supply Chain

Manufacturing

Sales and Marketing

Administration

Other

Other (please specify)

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* 3. What best describes the current status of your company with respect to artificial intelligence?

We are just watching for now

We are actively engaged in learning and acquiring knowledge

We have a dedicated project team that is working on use cases

We are actively developing several proof of concept pilots

We have already deployed one or more AI applications

I won't answer now. We have efforts underway, but they are very confidential.

Comments:

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* 4. Have you used any of the new AI tools, such as ChatGPT?

Yes

Comments, including AI tools you have used:

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* 5. In general, to what extent are your customers and supply chain partners making use of artificial intelligence?

	Not at all	Experimenting but not yet implementing	Full implementation for at least one function	Don't know
Customers	Customers Not at all	Customers Experimenting but not yet implementing	Customers Full implementation for at least one function	Customers Don't know
Supply chain partners	Supply chain partners Not at all	Supply chain partners Experimenting but not yet implementing	Supply chain partners Full implementation for at least one function	Supply chain partners Don't know

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* 6. At the NFPA Annual Conference, participants identified a list of areas where NFPA support may be helpful to members, as an industry-wide initiative or as assistance to specific members. Place a check by the items below that are highest priority...check no more than three.

Vetting AI suppliers

Using AI for industry forecasting and data modeling, e.g., monthly reports for members

Industry standards for data exchange and communication

Industry level inventory exchange

AI-enabled industry product cross references

AI-enabled industry database of MTBF by product

Online training related to AI

Ongoing roundtables, webinars and presentations on AI

Document industry knowledge

Other (please specify)

NFPA Survey - Artificial Intelligence mini-survey, part one

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* 1. Which of the following best describes your company?

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* 2. Which best describes your primary area of responsibility?

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* 3. What best describes the current status of your company with respect to artificial intelligence?

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* 4. Have you used any of the new AI tools, such as ChatGPT?

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* 5. In general, to what extent are your customers and supply chain partners making use of artificial intelligence?

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* 6. At the NFPA Annual Conference, participants identified a list of areas where NFPA support may be helpful to members, as an industry-wide initiative or as assistance to specific members. Place a check by the items below that are highest priority...check no more than three.

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* 7. Please add any other thoughts you have concerning industry-level initiatives related to artificial intelligence.

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* 8. Optional - please provide an email so that we can make sure you receive results and follow-up surveys directly.