Fernando Antonio Forcellini

Federal University of Santa Catarina | UFSC · Departamento de Engenharia de Produção e Sistemas

Small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) provide support for large companies' economic growth and be responsible for social development based on job creation, mainly in emerging countries like Brazil. Thus, it is essential to assess service quality provision in SMEs. Despite this, it is perceived the inefficiency of this practice in this sector. The...

Abstract: STARTUPS ARE INSTITUTIONS DESIGNED TO CREATE NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES UNDER SITUATIONS OF GREAT UNCERTAINTY. THE BEHAVIOR OF AN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (CEO) HAS A DIRECT IMPACT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF A STARTUP, WHICH CAN BE THE KEY TO THE SURVIVAL AND DEVELOPMENT OF THIS TYPE OF ENTERPRISE. TO THE MOMENT, LITTLE KNOWLEDGE HAS BEEN DEVELOPED A...

O setor industrial consome a maior parcela da eletricidade no Brasil e medidas que aumentem a sua performance energética, em especial para os consumidores cativos que estão sujeitos a elevadas tarifas, proporcionam benefícios ambientais e econômicos a toda cadeia de suprimentos. Avaliações do desempenho de uma organização podem ser realizadas por m...

Remanufacturing is the process of rebuilding used products that ensures that the quality of remanufactured products is equivalent to that of new ones. Although the theme is gaining ground, it is still little explored due to lack of knowledge, the difficulty of visualizing it systemically, and implementing it effectively. Few models treat remanufact...

The product and packaging development process is a complex task for organizations and professionals who are involved. Every day it becomes even more challenging, since the contemporary times require more actions for sustainable products and processes. It was found that the models of product development in the literature and adopted by companies are...

Agile methods emerge as an alternative to improve quality and performance in software development processes. However, as agile methods are essentially focused on human aspects, their application in companies depends mostly on their adequacy to the current organizational culture. This study explores the view of the organizational culture in three le...

End-of-life strategies, such as remanufacturing, have gained ground in order to promote product reuse, reduce environmental impacts and costs, as well as to win new markets. The remanufacturing process preserves part of the product’s raw materials and added value during its manufacturing. This study addresses the system that includes remanufacturin...

Agile methods emerge as an alternative to improve quality and performance in software development processes. However, as agile methods are essentially focused on human aspects, their application in companies depends mostly on their adequacy to the current organizational culture. This study explores the view of the organizational culture in three le...

Defined as “a marketable set of products and services jointly capable of fulfilling a client’s need”, product-service system (PSS) is recognized as one of the most promising approaches towards sustainable development due to its potential of environmental impact reduction by dematerialization, extension of product lifetime and reduction of resource...

In this rehearsal, leaning in the paradigm of the research transdisciplinary, the authors propose a conceptual framework of reference for the cognitive concept of human mistakes with base in the truth reality knowledge concepts. Paradigms life in certain logic inside and their formation results of the cognitive process. Concepts are instruments of...

This work focus the products strategic planning, a phase of new product development where take place the portfolio management, in which are defined what projects will be developed in the organization. Exists a lack in the mechanisms that intend to support knowledge management at portfolio management, because there are abstraction and instability in...

This paper describes a design methodology to develop interfaces for modular products. Interface should be understood as the boundary among two or more product modules. Interfaces are essential to guarantee a proper exchange of materials, energies and information among modules also playing an important role in product standardization and module inte...

For many consumer products the packaging is as important as the product itself. This means that one does not exist without the other. The product development process, in this in case, is only complete when the packaging is also developed. This work aims to consider an integrated Sustainable Packaging Design Model(SPkDM). Therefore, in view of the i...

Nowadays, designers usually interact with teams of distributed stakeholders using information and communication technology, aiming time/cost reductions and quality improvement. However, a lack in collaboration and knowledge management support mechanisms persists, especially in the product pre-development. Best practices for product pre-development...

Resumo. Existem diferentes propostas de arquiteturas, métodos, técnicas, modelos e sistemas computacionais que propõem tratar a problemática da colaboração e da gestão do conhecimento em equipes de projeto durante a macrofase de desenvolvimento, no Processo de Desenvolvimento de Produtos (PDP), usando sistemas de informação, gerenciamento de bases...

Today, businesses depend on strategic relations with their customers and suppliers to create value for developing product and to obtain better mark-share. Designing products to match the processes and supply chains, processes to match product platforms and supply chains, and supply chains to match the product platforms and process are they ingredie...

Lean Manufacturing philosophy has had an important role in productivity improvement in first rate industries. It came from the best practices applied by the Japanese automotive industry, targeting high quality, low cost, lower lead time and enhanced flexibility. Due to high competitiveness, there has been a great effort in its wider application. Wh...

Product design is currently a subject that involves various kinds of knowledge. In order to develop products that are successful in the market it is necessary to involve people from different areas of the production cycle, such as: marketing, assembly, processing, sales, among others, in addition to consideration of clients wishes. To address these...

RESUMO: O trabalho apresenta o desenvolvimento e testes de campo de equipamento agrícola modular. Para o desenvolvimento do equipamento, foi utilizada metodologia de projeto para sistemas modulares. O objetivo principal foi desenvolver um sistema modular que contribuísse para melhorar o atual quadro de mecanização agrícola da pequena propriedade ru...

This work presents the development and field tests of a modular agricultural implement. A Modular Design Product methodology was used for the implement development, and the main objective was the development of a modular system to improve the actual situation of mechanization on small countryside properties. The development focus was kept on some i...

Rapid technological development, shorter product life cycle, clockspeed competition, and increased outsourcing have prompted many firms to involve their suppliers in their product development process. There are many papers approaches the importance of both involvement suppliers in product development process and outsourcing process for competitive...

The essential functions of a planter are to open the planting furrow, meter the seeds, deposit them in the furrow, cover them and compact the soil around them. The planter precision is affected, in some way, by each of those functions. Function analysis is a tool used in the conceptual phase of product design which allows an abstract formulation fo...

Best practices for product pre-development aren't clear because the information available for designers in this phase are still instable and too abstract. Portfolio management highlights reasons, restrictions, tendencies and impacts, using competitive intelligence concepts insights on a knowledge management perspective, in order to classify project...

The objective of the product conceptual design phase is to provide one or more product concepts in order to meet customer requirements, that are translated as wishes from identified problems or project requirements. These concepts, named alternative concepts, are most of the time the power of the design process due to the high quantity of them and...

The organizations' ability to new product development by means both technological answers and their ability to meet customer needs does not guarantee the survival of market stability. Today, businesses depend on strategic relations with their customers and suppliers to create value for developing product and to obtain better mark-share. Despite the...

The increasing competition among companies, fast technological changes, decrease in product life cycle and growing consumer demand, lead companies to seek higher effectiveness and efficiency in the product development process (PDP). Nevertheless, it can be observed in the literature that a thorough model for PDP, providing an easier approach to the...