Maria Lucia Miyake Okumura

Engineering design with innovative characteristics that offer additional benefits to the customer is a process consisting of complex activities that require research, planning, and systematic methods. A prominent product development process has been driven by technological innovations used to assist the disabled in acquiring greater autonomy and performing daily tasks. Assistive product development has ensured the disabled more excellent prospects, contributing to providing or expanding the functional abilities of people with disabilities, resulting in the promotion of independent living and inclusion. This paper aims to develop a prosthetic device to aid patients with hand agenesis in practicing swimming based on the engineering design approach. The assistive product development was made based on the four phases: (i) demand perception, (ii) product projection, (iii) product characterization, and (iv) optimization. In addition, it was used for Monte Carlo simulation, multivariate an...

This book of proceedings contains papers peer reviewed and accepted for the 22nd ISPE Inc. International Conference on Concurrent Engineering, held at the TU Delft, The Netherlands, July 20–23th, 2015. This is the second issue of the newly introduced series “Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering” which publishes the proceedings of the CE conference series. The CE conference series is organized annually by the International Society of Productivity Enhancement (ISPE, Inc.) and constitutes an important forum for international scientific exchange on concurrent engineering and collaborative enterprises. These international conferences attract a significant number of researchers, industry experts and students, as well as government representatives, who are interested in the recent advances in concurrent engineering research, advancements and applications. Developed in the 80’s, the CE approach is based on the concept that different phases of a product lifecycle should be conducted con...

Projetos orientados para restauração têm como função reestabelecer a unidade potencial da edificação sem interferir nos traços históricos e artísticos da obra original. Na arquitetura, surgem como uma proposta de preservar bens com valores socioculturais e de preservar o meio ambiente. Dessa forma, as técnicas empregadas durante o processo de restauração apresentam peculiaridades. O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar um estudo de caso de um processo de restauração de uma fachada em uma edificação no sul do Brasil. Trata-se de um bem tombado pelo Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional – IPHAN, o Palácio da Justiça do Paraná. Este trabalho limita-se apenas às fachadas do edifício, focando na restauração dos revestimentos, pastilhas cerâmicas. A metodologia apresenta um levantamento das patologias, os problemas encontrados e as possíveis soluções. Nos resultados, apresenta-se a verificação dos métodos sugeridos, os quais envolvem práticas e conceitos de restauração, a...

The humanization of organizations is a trend in companies that have a vision of the future aligned with the needs of the market. In the health area, this humanization should not be limited to its users, but include the employees involved in the work system. The human aspect and its relations with the work system is a focus of studying ergonomics, which in its macroergomic approach aims at integrating organization-man-machine systems into a sociotechnical and participatory context. This study aims to apply the macroergonomic approach with health workers in order to propose and implement improvements; evidencing the importance of their involvement in better acceptance of the proposed improvements generating greater satisfaction. To this end, a study was conducted in the Billing sector of a Brazilian Hospital. Ergonomic demands were identified in a participatory way through the Macroergonomic Analysis of Work (MAW) method, proposed in [1]. The results were tabulated and divided into co...

The demands of the market over the requisites of agility, information confiability to identify the products and tracebility, have elevated the control exigence inside the manufacturing chain, contributing for the increase of inefficiency and decrease of the companies productivity. The advent of new technologies, the discovery of new work tools developed from the Information Technology evolution, together with the "Lean concept", has created the possibility of reverting this frame. The use of the bar code has turned more precise the information conjoint to the productivity improvement in the diverse sections of the production chain. The present article is a study case of preparation of heavy industry environment for the implementation of the bidimensional bar code tool QR-Code in a company of plastic injection situated in Curitiba/PR. The obtained results have shown significative performance after kaizen and implantation of the bidimensional bar code, as shown in the client...

According to the World Health Organization, more than one billion people on the planet have a type of disability. In Brazil, it corresponds to twentyfour per cent of the population, which creates a high level of social impacts, psychological vulnerability and dependence on others. In this context, Assistive Technology, including prosthetic devices, it is a resource that can be used in order to reduce those vulnerability levels. However, the product market of Assistive Technology is still limited, the few available products present high cost contradicting Brazil's high poverty levels, and the rates of dissatisfaction and abandonment of those products are quite high since these people have many specificities. Considering these aspects, the Integrated Product Development Process (IPDP) for Assistive Technology arises as a solution to design products that can match the expectations of the users. The main purpose is to present a fraction of the IPDP of a prosthetic device for the upp...

DIANTE DO DESENVOLVIMENTO DE PRODUTOS SUSTENTÁVEIS, A RESPONSABILIDADE SOCIAL EMPRESARIAL (RSE) VEM INCORPORANDO CADA VEZ MAIS NO MUNDO CORPORATIVO. A RSE É UMA FORMA DE GESTÃO DE NEGÓCIO ESTABELECIDA NAS METAS DA EMPRESA, CUJA DEFINIÇÃO ESSTENDE-SE PARA RELAÇÕES COMERCIAIS E SOCIALMENTE RESPONSÁVEIS. PORTANTO, ENVOLVEM-SE OS REQUISITOS DE PRODUÇÃO E CONSUMO SUSTENTÁVEL PARA ATENDER O MERCADO COMPETITIVO, QUE ESTÁ FORTEMENTE RELACIONADA COM A ÁREA DE DESENVOLVIMENTO DE PRODUTO. ESTA CONCEPÇÃO DE GESTÃO ESTÁ DENTRO DA COMPREENSÃO E ADEQUAÇÃO DOS DISPOSITIVOS REGULATÓRIOS SUSTENTÁVEIS COMO REGULAMENTAÇÃO DE LEIS, EXIGÊNCIAS DO MERCADO E NORMAS DE SUSTENTABILIDADE. ASSIM, O OBJETIVO DESTA PESQUISA É APRESENTAR A INFLUÊNCIA DO MARCO HISTÓRICO DA SUSTENTABILIDADE, POR MEIO DOS DISPOSITIVOS REGULATÓRIOS, EM RELAÇÃO À RSE NO PROCESSO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO DE PRODUTO. ESTE ESTUDO É TEÓRICO E EXPLORATÓRIO, DE NATUREZA EXPERIMENTAL, BASEADA NA REVISÃO BIBLIOGRÁFICA COM ABORDAGEM QUALITATIVA. A C...

The position in relation to manufactured products has been turning into a position for a more sustainable production without any loss of quality. The high current consumption results in heightened production of waste, so that it does not adversely affect the present and future, practices like recycling, reconditioning and reuse are examples that can done the current products part of the solution to achieve sustainability. This study focuses on sustainability as it takes in consideration the discarded material from the domestic disposal and, in parallel, uses renewable energy in its scope. With the idea of combine both subjects, the selected product was a Solar Water Heating System (SWHS) composed of discarded and recyclable materials. To delineate the product concepts such as eco-design, eco-efficiency, Design for Life Cycle and Integrated Product Development Process were studied. So that, the materials, tools and processes for the development of the SWHS prototype were selected con...

THE PRODUCT MARKET OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY IS STILL LIMITED, AND THE FEW AVAILABLE PRODUCTS PRESENT HIGH COST, CONTRADICTING BRAZIL'S HIGH POVERTY LEVELS AND THE ACCESS FOR MOST OF THE USERS WITH DISABILITIES. THE MAIN PURPOSE IS TO PRESENT A FRACTION OF THE INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROCESS OF PRODUCT (IDPP) FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY, APPLYING TOOLS OF PRODUCT ERGONOMICS AND UNIVERSAL DESIGN. THIS IS A RESEARCH OF THE INFORMATIONAL PROJECT APPLIED TO THE PROSTHETICS DEVICES FOR THE UPPER LIMB. THE SPECIFIC AIMS CONCERN THE MARKET OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND ITS USERS. THE STUDY IS BASED ON OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS IN FIELD RESEARCH AND IN DATA COLLECTION PRESENT IN THE SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEM OF THE USERS. THE RESULT SHOWS AN ANALISYS OF THE PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS AND SKILLS OF THE PERSON WITH DISABILITIES. BESIDES, BASED ON THE INVESTIGATION AND ANALISYS USING LIKERT TOOL, THE SPECIFICITIES OF THE USERS ARE FOUND IN ORDER TO APPLY THEM ASPRODUCTS REQUIREMENTS, TO CONSTITUTE THE CONCEPTUAL AND DETAILED PROJECT, TO CARRY OUT THE RAPID PROTOTYPING IN CAD ENVIRONMENT, 3D PRINTING AND ASSEMBLY OF THE PRODUCT. IT IS CONCLUDED THAT THE TOOLS OF PRODUCT EGONOMICS HAVE APPLICABILITY IN THE IDPP, SINCE IT ENABLES TO STUDY THE SPECIFICITIES OF USERS IN ORDER TO APPLY THEM IN SUBSEQUENT PHASES OF IDPP PROJECTS.

Introduction: Integrated Product Development Process (IPDP) together with Simultaneous Engineering (SE) promote speed in product development and add value to design. In this aspect, Ergonomics and Usability add information to product development resulting more safety and product use easiness. In this context, IPDP contributes to the development of products oriented for Assistive Technology (AT), which enable the social inclusion of people with physical/sensory limitations or deficiency. Objectives: The objective of this research was the use of AT in the IPDP in an ES environment comprising the principles of universal design, ergonomics and usability in the development of a device for Football 5-a-side users in order to facilitate the understanding of the tactics strategy passed from coach to players. Methods: The literature review provided the theoretical basis for the research. Following, observations were conducted to collect information about the daily lives of people with visual...