Overview Of The Industry And Future Trends

David A. Belforte

doi:10.1117/12.971024

16 March 1989 Overview Of The Industry And Future Trends

David A. Belforte

Proceedings Volume 1123, The Marketplace for Industrial Lasers; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.971024
Event: The Marketplace for Industrial Lasers, 1989, Chicago, IL, United States

Abstract

I am going to open the meeting this morning by presenting an overview of the industry and future trends. As you know, I am not only editor of Industrial Laser Review, but I am also the co-editor of the Industrial Laser Annual Handbook, which is the only international publication annually updating the technology, the industry and the supplier base. Each year we put together a mailing to people who tell us they participate in the industrial segment. We send each a questionnaire asking them to fill out the details of their company and what they do. We also ask them to take the time to tell us what they see the trends are going to be. What do things look like for this year and the future. We sent out, for the 1989 edition, well over a thousand questionnaires. Believe it or not, gentlemen, there are more than a thousand companies in the world who are gaining their livelihood selling goods and services in the industrial laser seg-ment. Admittedly, two-thirds of those are in the job shop segment. Our computer databank at the present moment has 1200 company names on them. We have currently received approximately a 30% response to our questionnaires. Of that 30%, a large number of them, (approximately 60%), are job shops. We do not ask the job shops to predict trends for us. We ask the suppliers, the people producing the products, to talk about trends. When I show you the viewgraphs which you have copies of, you will notice that these are all trends which would have come from marketing people in the supplier industry.

Citation Download Citation

David A. Belforte "Overview Of The Industry And Future Trends", Proc. SPIE 1123, The Marketplace for Industrial Lasers, (16 March 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.971024

ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE

INSTITUTIONAL
Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.

SELECT YOUR INSTITUTION

PERSONAL
Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.

PERSONAL SIGN IN

No SPIE Account? Create one

PURCHASE THIS CONTENT

SUBSCRIBE TO DIGITAL LIBRARY

50 downloads per 1-year subscription

Members: $195

Non-members: $335 ADD TO CART

25 downloads per 1 - year subscription

Members: $145

Non-members: $250 ADD TO CART

PURCHASE SINGLE ARTICLE

Includes PDF, HTML & Video, when available

Members: $17.00

Non-members: $21.00 ADD TO CART

PROCEEDINGS
23 PAGES

DOWNLOAD PAPER SAVE TO MY LIBRARY

GET CITATION

RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS

Get copyright permission Get copyright permission on Copyright Marketplace

KEYWORDS

Laser marking

Laser cutting

Carbon dioxide lasers

Laser applications

Laser welding

YAG lasers

Metals

Show All Keywords

Keywords/Phrases

Search In:

Publication Years