AI Assistance Survey

Institution

Factory

Job Title

Familiarity with AI

(1 = Not familiar, 10 = Most familiar)

Communication

Draft routine emails, replies, follow-ups, and status updates.

Summarize long email threads into decisions, action items, and deadlines.

Rewrite messages for a different tone, audience, or level of formality.

Create meeting agendas from project notes or prior discussions.

Turn meeting transcripts into concise summaries and task lists.

Translate recurring communications and documents.

Produce first-draft responses for common questions.

Other

0 of 150 max words

Documents and Reporting

Convert rough notes into polished reports

Create weekly or monthly status reports from project updates.

Summarize lengthy documents, policies, contracts, and research materials.

Extract key fields from invoices, forms, receipts, and PDFs.

Format documents consistently: headings, tables, citations, and templates.

Create executive summaries tailored to different stakeholders.

Compare document versions and identify meaningful changes.

Other

0 of 150 max words

Data and Operations

Clean spreadsheets by standardizing names, dates, categories, and formatting.

Categorize transactions, tickets, leads, requests, or feedback.

Generate spreadsheet formulas and explain existing ones.

Detect duplicate records or incomplete fields in structured data.

Transform raw data into dashboards, charts, and written insights.

Reconcile lists across systems, such as orders versus invoices.

Monitor routine metrics and flag unusual changes.

Other

0 of 150 max words

Research and Knowledge Tasks

Produce first-pass research briefs on competitors, industries, or customers.

Monitor news, regulations, or competitor updates and summarize changes.

Search internal knowledge bases and surface relevant answers.

Convert recurring questions into FAQs, playbooks, or standard operating procedures.

Tag and organize documents by topic, department, or sensitivity.

Create training materials, quizzes, and onboarding guides from existing documentation.

Other

0 of 150 max words

Manufacturing Tasks

Troubleshooting basic maintenance issues.

Other

0 of 150 max words

Procurement Tasks

Analyze spending by vendor, commodity, cost center, institution, or program.

Compare supplier quotes and create bid-evaluation tables.

Forecast future purchasing needs using historical usage.

Other

0 of 150 max words

Logistics Tasks

Assist with shipment tracking by connecting BOL, trailer, product, hub, and delivery-status information into a more visible shipment history.

Assist with trailer/load visibility for mixed shipments moving between factories, warehouses, OTD hubs, and final customers.

Analyze historical shipping activity to identify recurring delays, bottlenecks, or opportunities to improve routing and load planning.

Other

0 of 150 max words

Transportation Tasks

Analyze transportation activity for trends involving equipment utilization, routes, overtime, maintenance, and operational exceptions.

Create concise daily or weekly transportation summaries for supervisors and managers rather than requiring employees to manually compile information from multiple records.

Other

0 of 150 max words

Anything else?

0 of 150 max words

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