An Approach About the Value Analysis Methodology

The markets globalization requires enterprises to continually investing in innovation, competitiveness and excellence. It is important to create a value culture in organizations, through methods such as Value Analysis (VA). We pretend to enhance the relevance of the value concept and the creation of a value culture in the organizations, in order to foment and increment their success. In this paper we intend to provide a better knowledge of value analysis and suggest possible ways of its application. These allow us to put on perspective in a sustainable way new slopes to be incorporated that contributes to increase surplus values in the enterprises.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Value Analysis: a way to increase the value creation

The value analysis is an important tool to create a value culture in organizations. It is intended to enhance the relevance of the value concept and the creation of a value culture, to foment and increment the success of the methodology application. The importance of the value analysis increases with the application in the conception phase, so it is necessary to expand the boundaries of the method utilization to every type of project or configuration models. The differentiation of a product can be defined by the constant seek in joining more and new values to the products. We pretend to provide a better knowledge of value analysis and suggest possible ways of its application to increase surplus values in the organizations.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

An analysis about the resources selection process in agile/virtual enterprises

We intend in the context of this work, to do an analysis on studies, literary revisions and mainly on existent models, in the universe of virtual enterprises resources selection, in order to allow us to put on perspective, in a sustainable way, new slopes to be incorporated that contributes to an improvement of the whole global process. This analysis for the A/VE was focused in several areas and basic slopes for the whole global process of the problem in question, namely in terms of the pre-selection phases and requisites; selection phases, requisites and methods; mathematical models, used tools and other important areas. There were incorporated the decision process of create an A/VE project and the requisites of the process principal phases. We approach the essential aspects for the work that is intended to develop, such as the integration of the existent models with the tasks plan (PT) of the product, namely if there are contemplated the eformulation and evaluation of the PT, and other important characteristics such as the weighting of resources and the incorporation of the value concept in the existent models, being that in our opinion an integration of a methodology of the type of Value Analysis will be able to incorporate surplus values in all this process. Conclusions were withdrawn on the whole global process, pointing to gaps and limitations and trying to do an approach which allows to sinthetize and put in perspective an efficient analysis of the whole extent of the problem in question.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Domain of applicability of Value Analysis approach in the pre-selection of resources

For the project of an Agile/Virtual Enterprise (A/V E) the resources selection is a key factor. The output of the selection process should be prepared to guarantee quality, efficiency and cost-attractiveness, in order to ensure the agility and integrability of the A/V E. Despite the potential of Value Analysis (VA), none of the resources selection models found in the literature incorporates the VA integration. The main objective is to quantify the selection process performance with VA integrated into the pre-selection of resources in accordance with the developed model. The paper presents through the simulation results analysis, some of the benefits of VA application: greater applicability domain for candidate resources and number of tasks; and reduction of the selection time.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Application of Functional Analysis in a Product of the Furniture Industry: Bookcase

The value analysis methodology uses a structured and methodical job plan contemplating several steps to assure the success in their application. The most known and distinctive phase is functional analysis, nowadays an autonomous tool of value analysis. In order to characterize the customer’s needs in a clear language and to quantify the value of a product (a bookcase) of the furniture industry, a functional analysis study was developed. With this functional analysis it is intended to describe the functions that the product performs, provide a better knowledge of the product, to evaluate the degree of satisfaction of the product through its functional performance and facilitate the search for alternative solutions.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

An Evolutionary Based Algorithm for Resources System Selection Problem in Agile/Virtual Enterprises

The problem of resources systems selection takes an important role in Agile/Virtual Enterprises (A/VE) integration. However, the resources systems selection problem is difficult to solve in A/VE because: it can be of exponential complexity resolution; it can be a multi criteria problem; and because there are different types of A/V Es with different requisites that have originated the development of a specific resources selection model for each one of them. In this work we have made some progress in order to identify the principal gaps to be solved. This paper will show one of those gaps in the algorithms area to be applied for its resolution. In attention to that gaps we address the necessity to develop new algorithms and with more information disposal, for its selection by the Broker. In this paper we propose a genetic algorithm to deal with a specific case of resources system selection problem when the space solution dimension is high.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

An algorithm of a costing system for electroplating

Businesses are increasingly competitive and rigorous and it is essential the existence of a strong, effective and realistic costing system. Decisions taken on the basis of the costing are very important, they can make the difference between success and failure of the organization. This paper explains the construction of an initial algorithm that aims to calculate the costs associated with electroplating of metal articles, in a specific company. This work can act as a possible guide for the construction of the costing system algorithms in this type of industry.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Broker and Market of Resources as Organizational Mechanisms for Sustainability of Resources Selection Processes In Agile / Virtual Enterprises

Our Agile / Virtual Enterprises (A/V E) model, it is associated with the creation of temporary net of several physical organizations (or resources), with the intention to develop and produce one or more products/services, in the quantity and quality desirable, answering rapidly to a market solicitation. Our model has to satisfy four functional requirements: virtuality, distributivity, integrability and agility. The main mechanisms, or tools, for assuring satisfaction and implementation of these requirements, by the Virtual Enterprises Architecture Reference Model (BM_VEARM), are the Broker, the Market of Resources and the virtuality (as the specific organization architectural, or structural, pattern). In this paper, Broker and Market of Resources, and their roles and relationship within the process of resources selection, as one of the main processes of the A/V E as well as one of the “agility” processes, are considered. Both of them, Broker and Market of Resources, are independent physical entities, with own juridical identification, that inter-working between them and the Principal (the mentor of a business opportunity), could origin an A/V E creation. We will show in this article the main functions and its organizational position, associated to the triple Broker – Resources Market – Principal, for the A/V E configuration and operation. For the resources system selection those functions will be more detailed explained and identified its tools or type of tools, and its desired performance to assure the A /V E integrability and agility. One of these kinds of tools, are expected to be quality assurance tools, namely the value analyses.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Os Açores nas vésperas dos serviços aéreos regulares (1919-1937) : a cobertura noticiosa e propagandística de José Bruno Tavares Carreiro

Dissertação de Mestrado, Relações Internacionais: O Espaço Euro-Atlântico, 29 maio de 2019, Universidade dos Açores.As primeiras aeronaves nos céus dos Açores foram, em 1918, os hidroaviões da base naval da US-Navy instalada em Ponta Delgada no fim da Grande Guerra. O primeiro aeroporto dos Açores foi, em 1930, o Campo de Aviação da Achada, na Terceira. No jornal Correio dos Açores, dirigido por José Bruno Tavares Carreiro, a aviação sempre mereceu especial destaque. A sua rede de contactos contribuiu para reforçar o sentido de identidade e de autonomia açoriana. Tendo estas Ilhas enorme importância estratégica internacional, entenderam-se os ingleses e os americanos para beneficiarem da concessão de facilidades e para que fosse a Pan American Airways, a efetuar as ligações aéreas regulares entre a Europa e a América no período que antecedeu o segundo conflito mundial.ABSTRACT: The first airplanes in the Azorean skies were, in 1918, hydroplanes of the naval base of the US Navy, settled in Ponta Delgada at the end of the Great World War. The first airport in the Azores was, in 1930, the Achada Airfield in Terceira. The newspaper Correio dos Açores, directed by José Bruno Tavares Carreiro, always gave special evidence to the aviation related subjects. His social network did enhance the Azorean sense of common identity and political autonomy. Given the international strategic importance of these islands, the English and the Americans had reached an agreement in order to have granted the concession of facilities but also for it to be Pan American Airways to operate the regular air services between Europe and America in the period before the second world conflict