–   Acquisition assessment

–   Competitor analysis

–   Market research

–   Strategic planning

–   Technology search

–   Other

–   Electronics

•    Capacitors

•    Chip carriers

•    Fiber optics

•    Microwave products

•    Packages

•    Photovoltaics

•    Piezoelectrics

•    Resistors

•    Substrates

•    Transducers

•    Other

–   Structural

•    Biomedical ceramics

•    Catalyst supports

•    Energy system components

Batteries

Fuel cells

•    Heat engine components

•    Heat process equipment

•    Instrumentation and controls

•    Membranes/filters

•    Military/aerospace products

•    Pump and valve components

•    Tools and dies

•    Wear parts

•    Other

–   Other

•    Coatings

•    Magnetic materials and products

•    Optical products

•    Superconducting materials and products

•    Other

–   Carbides

•    Boron

•    Silicon

•    Titanium

•    Other

–   Oxides

•    Alumina

•    Barium titanate

•    Beryllia

•    Cordierite/MAS

•    Doped copper oxides

•    Lead-magnesium niobate

•    Lead metaniobate

•    Lead zirconate titanate/PZT

•    Mullite

•    Rare earth oxides

•    Zirconia

•    Other

–   Nitrides

•    Aluminum

•    Boron

•    Silicon

•    Titanium

•    Other

–   Other

•    Calcium apatite

•    Composites

Ceramic-ceramic

Ceramic-metal

Ceramic-polymer

•    Ferrites

Ferrimagnetic

Ferromagnetic

•    M-CrAIY

•    Metallized ceramics

•    Sialon

•    Specialty glasses

•    Titanium diboride

•    Other

–   Aircraft/aerospace

–   Appliances

–   Automotive

–   Business machine/computer

–   Chemical processing

–   Consumer electronics

–   Electricity generation

–   Glass

–   Hybrid circuits

–   Material handling

–   Medical

–   Metal forming

–   Metal production

–   Military

–   Mining

–   Semiconductor

–   Coatings

–   Competing technologies

–   Equipment

•    Analytical

•    Manufacturing

•    Thermal spray

–   Fabrication technologies

–   Fibers

–   Impact of government regulation/intervention

–   Internal competition

–   Plant locations

–   Power-synthesis techniques

–   Powders

–   Processing aids

–   Shapes

–   Spare parts

–   Strategies/tactics for entering or expanding the business

–   Systems approach

–   Vertical and horizontal integration

–   Other

–   United States

–   Western Europe

–   Japan

–   Other