Modelo de sistema para gerenciamento de conhecimentos explícitos em abordagens de DFA (Design for Assembly)

Abstract

SAVI, A. F. Management Model for Explicit Knowledge in DFA (Design For Assembly) Approaches. PhD Thesis Escola de Engenharia de Sao Carlos, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, 2009. An important source of competitive advantages for many organizations worldwide is the capacity to create projects for products consisting of a small number of parts of easy assemblage, nonetheless attending to the consumers’ expectations, named DFA Approach Design for Assembly. In order to re-project or decrease the expenses caused by designing new products aimed at such, it is necessary to retrieve information data which might be stored in inaccessible places and in a large variety of knowledge repositories. A way of retrieving this data is the creation of a system class, called peer-to-peer, which allows these documents to be synchronized and shared among terminals connected to a network. This system aims at decentralizing data, that is, they are spread throughout the network (internal or external) with the advantage that each company may protect the information by not making it available in computers belonging to third parties. Moreover, this information can automatically reach users by means of XML transactions. Therefore, the aim of this study is to develop a tool to help knowledge management work in generating, codifying and transferring knowledge concerning DFA techniques. The assessment of available solutions was used as a method to propose a theoretical model which pinpoints the system development. It can be concluded that this type of system provides the users with means to collect data more efficiently, since DFA data may be accessed.