Digital manufacturing, industry 4.0, clould computing and thing internet: Brazilian contextualization and reality

The digital era represents significant changes in the design of IT projects with an emphasis on digital infrastructure, especially in terms of investment and professional qualification, which requires, in Brazil, the creation of specific lines of financing by government development agencies. The creation of demonstration platforms could be an effective initiative to stimulate the dissemination of the concept and the establishment of partnerships between customers and suppliers of new technologies. On the other hand, and particularly for the consumer market, corporations can create new business models and modify their relationships with their consumers, users and even competitors. In fact, today, "Thing Internet" has come to significantly modify the paradigms of perception, production and distribution of the capitalist world. This article discusses, covering and understanding the main reasons for the existence of this gap between theory and practice regarding digital manufacturing and adjacencies, the perspectives of technological innovations in the digital era specifically in Brazil. Its content is the result of a bibliographical review carried out from April to June 2016

Do Avanço do Planejamento, Programação e Controle da Produção como Atividades Essenciais da Empresa à Educação Ambiental

This work addresses the evolution of Planning, Programming and Control of Production (PPCP) as essential activities of the company towards the insertion of environmental education. The approach is based on an exploratory research and a critical bibliographic revision. Two main objectives were established: i) a new way of production organization, by considering cleaner production from company utilities to production capacity, technology and outsourcing and ii) infrastructure changes related to market attendance and environmental education dissemination. Needs that arise can be grouped as follows: utilities adequacy, cleaner technologies and ecochains implementation; instruction and dissemination of environmental education; and necessity of the adoption of new paradigms.Neste artigo se aborda a evolução do Planejamento, Programação e Controle da Produção (PPCP) como atividades essenciais da empresa à educação ambiental, por meio da pesquisa exploratória em revisão bibliográfica. Neste cenário, apresentar-se-ão como objetivos gerais: i) uma nova forma de estruturar a produção, considerando a Produção Mais Limpa (P+L) no cerne das Instalações, Capacidade, Tecnologia e Terceirização da empresa, e ii) as mudanças de infraestrutura ao atendimento das necessidades delineadas pelo mercado consumidor e a disseminação da educação ambiental interna. As necessidades que surgem da nova forma se resumem em: adequação de instalações; implementação de tecnologias limpas na fabricação e manufatura e de ecorredes; instrução e disseminação de conceitos sobre educação ambiental internamente; simplificação dos fluxos produtivos; e necessidade de se adaptar aos paradigmas

Production batch sizing and inventory level control using simulation software

Computer simulation has great application potential in the area of Production Engineering as a tool to support decision making as it allows to simulate the functioning of a real system through logical relationships, in order to observe its behavior under different scenarios. Which could not be practiced in the real system. In line with this aspect, the present work aims to present a report on the application of simulation for the design of production batches and inventory control, highlighting the process necessary for the construction of the generated simulation model, as well as the challenges and opportunities observed. In order to achieve the proposed objective, a literature review was carried out on the topics of interest; the choice and understanding of simulation software and; the survey of data from a large auto parts manufacturer located in the interior of the state of São Paulo. The main results were an increase in production volume from the inclusion and dimensioning of a buffer after the assembly process and a balance between the number of items of each component of the product structure in the supply with the real capacity of manufacturing cell processing. Cabe ressaltar que o modelo de simulação produto da pesquisa deste artigo pode ser aplicado como um sistema de apoio à decisão do gestor para a elaboração do planejamento estratégico e do planejamento operacional com o propósito de melhorar a capacidade de análise e decisão. It is important mentioning that the simulation model in this article can be applied as a support system decision for the preparation of strategic planning and operational planning, with the purpose of improving the analysis capacity for decision-making

Planejamento e Controle da Produção com Educação Ambiental: Um Estudo de Caso em uma Empresa do Segmento Químico

This article presents the case study of the implementation of Production Planning and Control with environmental education in a chemical plant. For this purpose, it emphasizes the necessary infrastructure, to sensitize and disseminate environmental education in a transversal way for officials and planners operating in production, making it possible to form ecoteam for the dissemination of knowledge in environmental education and sustainable development projects. It is noteworthy that the two production planners were the main agents of ecoteam in creating the action plan for the structuring of cleaner production. Semi-structured interviews and participant observation were used for the development of the case study, allowing to raise the principles, practices and the Clean Manufacturing enablers that the organization has adopted as a performance goal for competitiveness. It was also possible to evaluate the economic and environmental advantages of implementing the project involving the sequencing of tasks within the planning and control functions. The environmental benefits were measured by the Wuppertal (2008) method. Two variables were considered in the measurement of results obtained with the implementation: the production volume in liters and the cost per liter of the main raw material. The increasing of the amount of production was 20% in liters and the cost reduction, of 10.6% per liter.Este artigo tem por objetivo abordar um estudo de caso de uma empresa química que adequou o sistema de Planejamento, Programação e Controle da Produção à Educação Ambiental. Com esse propósito dá ênfase à infraestrutura necessária, visando sensibilizar e disseminar a educação ambiental de maneira transversal para os funcionários operacionais e planejadores da produção, tornando possível formar ecotime para a disseminação dos conhecimentos em Educação Ambiental e desenvolvimento de projetos sustentáveis. É importante salientar que os dois planejadores de produção foram os principais agentes do ecotime na criação do plano de ação sobre a estruturação da manufatura limpa. O desenvolvimento do estudo de caso se deu por meio de entrevista semiestruturada e observação participante, que permitiram levantar os princípios, as práticas e os capacitadores da Manufatura Limpa que a organização adotou como objetivo de desempenho para competitividade. Também foi possível avaliar as vantagens econômicas e ambientais da implantação do projeto envolvendo o sequenciamento das tarefas no âmbito das funções de planejamento e controle. As vantagens ambientais foram mensuradas por meio do método Wuppertal (2008). Duas variáveis foram consideradas na medição dos resultados obtidos com a implantação: o volume de produção em litros e o custo por litro da principal matéria-prima. O aumento do volume de produção foi de 20% em litros e a redução do custo por litro, de 10,6%

Digital manufacturing, industry 4.0, clould computing and thing internet: Brazilian contextualization and reality

The digital era represents significant changes in the design of IT projects with an emphasis on digital infrastructure, especially in terms of investment and professional qualification, which requires, in Brazil, the creation of specific lines of financing by government development agencies. The creation of demonstration platforms could be an effective initiative to stimulate the dissemination of the concept and the establishment of partnerships between customers and suppliers of new technologies. On the other hand, and particularly for the consumer market, corporations can create new business models and modify their relationships with their consumers, users and even competitors. In fact, today, "Thing Internet" has come to significantly modify the paradigms of perception, production and distribution of the capitalist world. This article discusses, covering and understanding the main reasons for the existence of this gap between theory and practice regarding digital manufacturing and adjacencies, the perspectives of technological innovations in the digital era specifically in Brazil. Its content is the result of a bibliographical review carried out from April to June 2016

Advance Planning, Programming and Production Control as key Activities Now the Environmental Education

This work addresses the evolution of Planning, Programming and Control of Production (PPCP) as essential activities of the company towards the insertion of environmental education. The approach is based on an exploratory research and a critical bibliographic revision. Two main objectives were established: i) a new way of production organization, by considering cleaner production from company utilities to production capacity, technology and outsourcing and ii) infrastructure changes related to market attendance and environmental education dissemination. Needs that arise can be grouped as follows: utilities adequacy, cleaner technologies and ecochains implementation; instruction and dissemination of environmental education; and necessity of the adoption of new paradigms