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Characterising project management of lean initiatives in industrial companies -...
Lima, Rui M.; Souza, Ingrid Teixeira; Pereira, Eduarda; Belém, Ana Cristina; Pinto, Cátia Marlene; Lazzaris, Joana; Fonseca, PedroThe paper mainly aims to characterise project management (PM) practices of industrial Lean initiatives by analysing and comparing three main topics: PM approaches, PM teams, and project alignment with the company's strategy. This research encompasses two exploratory industrial case studies with an extensive literature review. Key professionals were interviewed to obtain an in-depth vision of the field. The stud...
SPC-based model for evaluation of training processes in industrial context
Jesus, Cristiano; Marcorin, Adilson; Lima, Rui M.; Sousa, Rui M.; Souza, Ingrid Teixeira; Oliveira, ElianaPurpose: This article aims to present successful practices in the management of training processes based on virtual reality and augmented reality, namely a strategy for evaluating the process with the principle of continuous improvement in mind, and monitoring its performance in terms of productivity and waste levels. It is proposed to apply Statistical Process Control (SPC) tools to develop control charts for ...
Strategic innovation management at Netflix: a case study
Souza, Ingrid Teixeira; Romero, FernandoNetflix is a company that implemented a disruptive innovation and shocked the business market with its way to create and deliver value to their customers, breaking away with the old way to watch a movie at home. The culture of freedom and responsibility engaged by a radical transparency is committed by the whole company where every kind of employee at all teams share ideas and know everything about the company’...
Characterization of the operators training process in an industrial company
Souza, Ingrid Teixeira; Oliveira, Eliana; Jesus, Cristiano; Reis, Andreia; Sousa, Rui M.; Lima, Rui M.Training operators in industrial contexts is a demand that most of the industrial organizations must deal with, and engineers are the trainers in many cases. Thus, engineers may be required to deal with the development of a training environment and a competences assessment system in training settings. This paper aims to characterize strategies for planning and implementation of an operator-training process for ...
Industrial training qualitative evaluation with fuzzy logic and an experience c...
Jesus, Cristiano; Souza, Ingrid Teixeira; Sousa, Rui M.; Lima, Rui M.; Oliveira, Eliana; Reis, AndreiaIt is usual that companies must develop their own training processes, adaptable to their own production systems. In fact, the evaluation of the training process is a function of significant importance and must guarantee means for the identification of demands for corrective actions and for a procedure that ensures the continuous evolution of the process, therefore, that meets a dynamic of continuous improvement...