Marcia Echeveste

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul | UFRGS · Departamento de Engenharia de Produção e Transportes

Circular business models in manufacturing, especially in the recycling industry, face many barriers that need to be managed and mitigated for successful business implementation. Therefore, this study aims to analyse the hierarchy of the main barriers to the implementation of circular business models in the recycling industry and evaluate strategies...

The circular economy and the circular bioeconomy share common goals such as the proper recovery of products, the creation of value from waste, the minimization of waste disposal, and the contribution to the circularity. To transition to the circular bioeconomy, organizations need to develop or adapt their business models along with the implementati...

Uma Instituição de Educação Superior (IES) deve desenvolver suas atividades e direcionar as ações de forma a atender a legislação educacional vigente, as diretrizes estabelecidas no seu Plano de Desenvolvimento Institucional e suas funções, atender as expectativas e demandas da região na qual se insere, visando o desenvolvimento regional. A estrutu...

Product-service systems (PSS) are one of the business models that can promote circular economy and sustainability; however, to design this kind of solution, holistic approaches must be used, integrating different areas of knowledge. Thus, this study proposes a conceptual solution based on the PSS business model to the problem of reverse logistics o...

Providing the correct destination at the end of the product's use phase is essential for value recovery and to reduce the environmental impact at this lifecycle stage. To understand the e-waste recycling behavior among users, this article aims to identify the most common destinations given to smartphones when they are no longer used. A systematic l...

Construction companies usually record customer complaints as unstructured texts, resulting in unsuitable information to understand defect occurrences. Moreover, complaint databases are often manually classified, which is time-consuming and error-prone. However, previous studies have not provided guidance on how to improve customer complaint data co...

Purpose This study aims to identify the appropriate combination of attributes that must be present to deliver value in a new product for a pharmaceutical enterprise. Design/methodology/approach The application object was the Metronidazole analytical standard, using choice experiments to product attributes and price. Findings The practical results...

Introdução O gerenciamento de lixo eletrônico vem sendo cada vez mais necessário, especialmente no contexto de países em desenvolvimento. Essa categoria de lixo é a que mais cresce nos países desenvolvidos e um motivo crescente de preocupação nos países em desenvolvimento. Embora seja reconhecido o papel essencial dos consumidores para o adequado g...

Goal: This paper presents an assessment of the social and environmental innovation projects developed with the TECNOVA-ES grant from the government of the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo. Methodological: The methodological approach contemplated three stages: 1) analysis of documentation related to the program from data made available by Espirito...

The climate change effects have become increasingly intense and frequent, impacting the cities' fundamental functions. In this context, resilience-building represents a relevant challenge for urban managers, mainly due to the barriers to integrating diverse infrastructure subsystems at different governance levels. Thus, this study aims to analyze r...

A challenge faced by some companies in the residential building sector is to cope with the complexity introduced to respond to the increasing diversity of customer demands in a profitable and sustainable way. Mass customisation (MC) has been described as a strategy to deliver customised products at costs and delivery times similar to mass productio...

The relationship between packaging and sustainability has caused the evolution of literature towards the minimization of environmental damage. The task of packaging professionals is becoming more demanding, as they need to collect information from distinct topics to stay up to date. The aim of this research is to gather information on packaging in...

Mass customisation is a business strategy for house building companies to improve value generation and obtain a competitive advantage by offering the product variety that meets customers’ needs and, at the same time, maintaining costs and delivery time within market expectations. Companies aiming to define product variety should be able to assess t...

Para elevar a capacidade de inovação e competitividade, diferentes tipos e tamanhos de empresas têm adotado a estratégia Open Innovation – OI. Entretanto, a literatura demonstra que as empresas ainda enfrentam dificuldades e desafios para colocar em prática essa estratégia, principalmente pela falta de metodologias de implementação. Este artigo tem...

Electronic waste, or e-waste, is the fastest growing category of waste in developed countries and a threat to the environment and human health. The extension of electronic products life cycles could reduce the use of finite resources, the emission of pollutants, and the amount of waste disposed of in the landfills, delaying the impacts of disposal...

Este estudo relata a aplicação da fase inicial do método Engenharia de Requisitos para PSS Sustentável no desenvolvimento de uma solução para a logística reversa de cápsulas de café. Com ênfase no modelo de negócio e proposta de valor, uma solução conceitual para o problema foi entregue aos gestores. O método mostrou-se eficaz para guiar a implemen...

The circular economy approach involves practices that seek to manage resources, in particular better use of waste, to generate value for the company and the chain. However, business models based on circular economy practices present potential risks related to the environment, safety, relationships in the chain, and economic viability. This study ai...

Several initiatives have been proposed to address food waste and loss issues and support stakeholders throughout the food chain. However, the literature still lacks a review paper that compiles methods, practices, and solutions to reduce food waste and loss. With the goal of filling this gap, this paper aims to compile and gather food waste and los...

Resumo: A teoria do valor capturado postula que o lucro potencial na entrega de uma oferta de produtos e serviços é avaliado por meio da relação preço e desempenho, características do produto e do serviço e das competências da empresa. Este estudo trata da captura do valor em ofertas Sustainable Product-Service System (S-PSS). O objetivo deste estu...

This work aims to identify: (i) practices aligned to lean principles used by companies in the construction industry (ii) performance indicators used in lean systems and (iii) barriers to the implementation of these performance indicators. A survey was developed and applied as a research tool. The first version was prepared through bibliographic rev...

In the development of innovative offers, especially in startups, there is an uncertainty of market acceptance and understand how the target audience will absorb an innovation. In the agricultural sector, there is conservatism in the new products and services approval, in addition to a lack of confidence in the quality and future maintenance of unkn...

The present invention features a hydrophobic starch polymer, its pre-gel form, its production process, and its uses with a view to increasing the useful life of perishables. The present invention is located in the fields of Chemistry and Engineering.

Mass customisation is a business strategy that aims to deliver a variety of products that fulfil customer requirements and, at the same time, keep price and delivery time within acceptable limits. It has been adopted in different sectors to increase value generation, including house building. A major challenge in mass customisation is customer inte...

Goal: This article aims to diagnose the profile, strategies, and innovation practices adopted by the information technology companies of a Regional Innovation Systems (RIS). Design/ Methodology/ Approach: This study was carried out with 19 small and medium companies from a RIS in the state of Paraná, where we collect data relating to the infrastruc...

This study investigates an alternative to reduce fruit waste. Nowadays, around 40% of the fruit produced is wasted before consumption. Considering such waste and the current rate of population growth, by 2050 the world population will lack food. Due to the high content of moisture and sugar, many fruits are markedly perishable, and this characteris...

Background and Aims: Some studies bring different visions of innovation among the stakeholders of the wine sector; however, there is a gap in our understanding of the characteristics of and the relationship between the ecosystem and the stakeholders. This study aims to identify and measure critical success factors (CSFs) of the wine innovation ecos...

The transition from mass production system to lean production system carrier significant changes in operational strategies of industrial organizations. A production model system can engender different reactions by the people involved; some of them can show resistance during the process, ranging from unreserved support to a hidden resistance (even e...

Developing innovative solutions begins with the identification of needs to represent customer value. This understanding is essential for entrepreneurs to test their hypotheses and deliver value propositions, especially in startups, where the degree of uncertainty is high, and the business model has no consolidation. To this end, different approache...

Currently companies face a market extremely competitive, in this scenario, to achieve a significant profit margin, is essential to reduce costs and rework. This study was developed in the central food cooperative Aurora (Erechim- RS), in the continuous freezing tunnels, which are responsible for the biggest bottleneck of the company. The continuous...

This study aims to generate a referential basis on which the designer can reflect about and explore scenarios during the structural and graphic packaging projects. “Packing Radar (RE)” has been compiled over years of research as it is spread across different sources and areas of expertise. This qualitative research uses content analysis and expert'...

Purpose - Customer value is the key to successful innovation management. This task is considered complex and abstract. For this reason, several models have been proposed to that end, among then, Lean approaches. Lean’s background has been applied to value identification, providing many benefits. This paper aims at analyzing the practices employed t...

Mass customization is a strategy to improve value generation for customers, by offering product variety and, at the same time, maintaining costs and delivery time to an acceptable level. A key problem for applying this strategy in the housebuilding sector is the definition of the solution space, i.e. the range of product alternatives that will be o...

Several housing programs have been conceived and implemented in the last few decades in Brazil, with the aim to reduce the housing shortage. Despite the efforts to develop social housing, a substantial share of projects has had quality failures in the use phase, which represent costs to society. Previous research has been limited to the evaluation...

The grain drying and storage process currently practiced in Brazil is essentially accomplished by firewood dryers, with a high demand of natural resources, lack of safety for operators, and a high rate of residue and pollutant generation. Public policies should restrict this type of drying as of the year 2020. Aiming to develop products and service...

Public organizations are immersed in challenging contexts, having to meet and balance internal and external demands for transparency, accountability, political goals, and specific regulatory requirements. In this scenario, there is a growing enthusiasm from worldwide governments toward improvements of operations within their public institutions, in...

This paper aims to assess the critical success factors (CSF) to implement open innovation (OI) in companies of Regional Innovation Systems. The CSF compiled from the literature were subjected to factor analysis and grouped into five main categories. These factors were transformed into indicators to assess the CSF and verify RIS companies’ stance on...

In the literature of Open Innovation (OI), some specific themes, such as elaboration of methods, strategies and systematized processes of implementation are still little discussed. In attempted to fill this research gap, this study aims to present a proposal for a framework for the implementation of OI in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of Regio...

Cultural damming marked by censorship imposed by the military dictatorship in Brazil ended up bringing great changes to the cultural segment generating a reaction that was called Boca do Lixo. This study aims to analyze the graphic composition of films covers aimed at finding a pattern associated with the trends that characterize the phase called "...

Product-service systems (PSSs) have significant sustainability potential. However, limited knowledge is available on the choices to develop circular PSS solutions. The goal of this paper is to provide a circular innovation framework containing circular strategies to facilitate the decision-making in PSS circular innovation. A systematic literature...

The footwear sector is known for the high volumes of solid waste such as plastic and rubber derived from the cutting of the raw material used in the production of shoes and accessories. Such wastes are generally not used, which generates environmental damage. In order to provide contribution to minimize this problem, this article is based on follow...

Goal: This article presents an assessment of the impacts of the “Research in Companies Support Program (PAPPE): Economical Subvention to Innovation”, in the decentralized modality, i.e., projects contracted in the states of the Brazilian federation. Considering the high opportunity cost of the PAPPE program, it was deemed important to evaluate how...

Nos últimos anos constatou-se um aumento no número de enxames e colônias de abelhas africanizadas (Apis mellífera) nos centros urbanos, fato que pode vir a causar transtornos e risco de acidente a população. Esses enxames necessitam de um lugar protegido para formar uma nova colônia, então buscam abrigo em tubulações, cavidades em postes, telhados,...

Resumo: Estudos indicam a importância de incluir a experiência do usuário na medição da usabilidade de dispositivos médicos. Contudo, a avaliação atribuída pelo usuário depende do contexto de uso recebido no tratamento. Para medir a usabilidade de forma a separar esses efeitos e compreender as fontes que afetam a percepção do usuário, este artigo t...

Purpose A comprehensive understanding about open innovation implementation is still lacking. In particular, a compilation of drivers and barriers for OI implementation is absent from the literature. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to identify critical success factors (CSFs) for OI implementation at the firm level. Design/methodology/approach A...

R1 Simulation training in stroke thrombolysis: reducing door to needle times to less than 15 minutes R2 Sequential Simulation (SqS): an empirical and theoretical model R3 Debriefing with team deliberate practice: an instructional design to enhance the performance of undergraduate nursing students in recognising the deteriorating patient R4 Behavior...

Literature shows different forms of improving New Product Development performance for sustainable product innovation. To that end, Lean principles are widely disseminated as means for waste elimination, value proposition and continuous improvement in product development. Nevertheless, operationalizing the adoption of such principles requires knowle...

Modularity is a strategy recognized by the academia and the industry, and modular architecture is argued to play an important role in the development of sustainable products. The objective of this article is to explore the intersection between modularity and sustainable design from the perspective of the product life cycle. To achieve this objectiv...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between the utilization of the customization strategy and the availability of the online toolkit and its features with the commercial variables of businesses. Design/methodology/approach The sample used in this paper consists of 134 cases of corporate brands in the automobile industry; t...

The solidification of the cocoa liquor is one of the most important steps for processing cocoa cultivars. This process is typically characterized as a continuous process, which may become a barrier for the randomization of the applied data treatments. This article aims at optimizing the factors that influence the processing of cocoa cultivars durin...

The supplier involvement in the New Product Development (NPD) has become an important contribution to the solution of problems, which causes the process to be faster and more productive. However, it is still difficult to manage the supplier involvement during the NPD process. This study evaluates benefits and success factors of the supplier involve...

O emprego de práticas de Customização em Massa (CM) no Processo de Desenvolvimento de Produto (PDP) consiste em uma alternativa para a promoção da estratégia de CM nas empresas. A partir disto, este artigo tem por objetivo identificar e selecionar práticas associadas ao PDP orientado à CM. Para tanto, foi desenvolvido um protocolo de suporte a deci...