Advanced technology benefits evaluation: Expectations and attained experience

This paper presents selected results of a recent survey focused on the problems of advanced manufacturing technology benefits identification and evaluation that was carried out in the Czech Republic in 2009. We will present some pieces of evidence that managers of manufacturing companies are unable to identify and evaluate these benefits properly and that there are huge differences between benefits expected when the relevant project is in the assessment phase and the benefits really attained after the project has reach the stage of routine operation. Moreover, we will put these results within international context and we will compare the findings derived from our survey with the results that were ascertained by our predecessors in the United Kingdom.