Identificação das competências organizacionais de uma empresa do segmento eletro-eletrônico : caso Spring Carrier

O presente estudo tem como objetivo identificar as competências organizacionais essenciais da Springer Carrier Ltda. Os sujeitos da pesquisa realizada foram os executivos de primeira linha, gerentes de segunda linha, técnicos, um representante do acionista e alguns clientes. A metodologia utilizada foi o estudo de caso de natureza exploratória e descritiva, sendo os dados coletados através de entrevistas e aplicação de questionário. A análise dos dados foi feita de forma qualitativa, traçando-se uma relação entre as percepções dos públicos pesquisados, com o referencial teórico e a opinião do Gerente de Recursos Humanos da empresa, que é o autor deste estudo. Pôde-se concluir, com base na pesquisa, que a Springer Carrier possui três competências essenciais em seu contexto organizacional: gestão tecnológica voltada para produtos, gestão da produção e gestão de pessoas e ambiente interno. Foram, portanto, explorados os conceitos e os benefícios da abordagem do tema competências empresariais que poderão possibilitar à empresa várias análises futuras e desdobramentos em ações estratégicas, partindo-se do conteúdo deste estudo.

Aplicação de técnicas de gerenciamento por objetivos à área industrial de uma empresa eletro-eletrônica

Este trabalho descreve a implantação da Gestão por objetivos na Área Industrial da Empresa PARKS Comunicações Digitais, que é uma empresa do segmento de telecomunicações que desenvolve, fabrica e distribui equipamentos destinados à comunicação de dados denominados de "última milha", ou seja, dentro de um sistema de tranmissão de dados e voz, seus equipamentos estão instalados próximos ao usuário final do serviço. São apresentados a geração dos indicadores de desempenho, o treinamento dos gestores da empresa e os resultados auferidos no decorrer dos primeiros anos. A implementação desta metodologia de gestão seguiu o processo de pesquisa e ação, usando técnicas de elaboração de objetivos e de seu acompanhamento. Os resultados foram avaliados através de dados financeiros da empresa, usando um indicador geral, o custo do produto vendido gerencial(CPV), e seus componentes, o custo do produto comprado, o de industrialização e o da não qualidade, cada um com seus próprios indicadores. Verificou-se que, tomando-se como base o CPV, ao longo do período, houve uma redução do mesmo que alcançou cerca de 16% do faturamento bruto obtido. Outro resultado positivo foi a formação de um grupo de gestores já treinado em levantamento, análise e determinação de metas, aguardando as diretrizes para desenvolver o Plano Estratégico da Empresa.

A problemática do desenvolvimento de produtos na indústria eletro-eletrônica no Brasil

Este trabalho visa avaliar a atividade de desenvolvimento de produtos numa unidade de negócios de Som e Imagem, caracterizando e apontando deficiências no Sistema de Desenvolvimento e como conseqüência nos Inícios de Produção. Tece ainda considerações sobre o Plano de Avaliação da Qualidade interno da Empresa e sobre a avaliação da atividade na forma de processos. Aponta oportunidades de Reavaliação dos Processos de forma global, caracterizando o potencial do Grupo e da Empresa como centro de Competência no desenvolvimento de novos produtos.

Projeto e implementação de um sistema de instrumentação eletro-eletrônica para caracterização de escoamentos através de processamento digital de imagens

Historicamente, devido à incompreensibilidade dos fenômenos físicos envolvidos, diversas técnicas de análise experimental de escoamentos foram desenvolvidas. Inicialmente, estas técnicas consistiam em uma simples visualização do escoamento em questão. Visava-se com isto produzir a intuição física a respeito do sistema físico para que futuras teorias pudessem ser formuladas. No entanto, nos anos posteriores, tornou-se necessária a criação de técnicas quantitativas. Neste segmento, a evolução tecnológica da eletrônica propiciou que técnicas intrusivas e não intrusivas fossem criadas. Tal processo culminou com o surgimento da microeletrônica, quando sensores eletrônicos de imagem puderam ser fabricados. Assim, técnicas não intrusivas de velocimetria através de processamento digital de imagens tornaram-se referência, possibilitando a medição de campos de velocidade do escoamento em análise. Tais técnicas são atualmente utilizadas não apenas no meio acadêmico, na investigação da turbulência, como na indústria, em projetos de engenharia que envolvam alta tecnologia. Neste trabalho, apresenta-se uma metodologia para a concepção de um sistema de velocimetria de 2 dimensões por processamento digital de imagens. Para tanto, o sistema de velocimetria foi dividido em duas partes, sendo os equipamentos bem como os conceitos físicos envolvidos em cada uma analisados e descritos Por fim, projetou-se e implementou-se um sistema de velocimetria de 2 dimensões através de processamento digital de imagens, modo PIV. A sua validação foi efetuada sobre um escoamento altamente turbulento interno a um duto circular, cuja solução é conhecida e exaustivamente estudada no decorrer dos anos. O resultado obtido se apresentou totalmente satisfatório e demonstrou a grande importância atual de tal técnica de medição.

Utilização da lógica difusa no controle inteligente de sistemas eletro-hidráulicos

Electro-hydraulic servo-systems are widely employed in industrial applications such as robotic manipulators, active suspensions, precision machine tools and aerospace systems. They provide many advantages over electric motors, including high force to weight ratio, fast response time and compact size. However, precise control of electro-hydraulic systems, due to their inherent nonlinear characteristics, cannot be easily obtained with conventional linear controllers. Most flow control valves can also exhibit some hard nonlinearities such as deadzone due to valve spool overlap on the passage´s orifice of the fluid. This work describes the development of a nonlinear controller based on the feedback linearization method and including a fuzzy compensation scheme for an electro-hydraulic actuated system with unknown dead-band. Numerical results are presented in order to demonstrate the control system performance

Degradação foto-fenton de carbono orgânico total em efluentes da indústria de beneficiamento de castanha de caju

At the cashew nut processing industry it is often the generation of wastewaters containing high content of toxic organic compounds. The presence of these compounds is due mainly to the so called liquid of the cashew nut (CNSL). CNSL, as it is commercially known in Brazil, is the liquid of the cashew nut. It looks like an oil with dark brown color, viscous and presents a high toxicity index due to the chemical composition, i.e. phenol compounds, such as anacardic acid, cardol, 2-methyl cardol and monophenol (cardanol). These compounds are bio resistant to the conventional treatments. Furthermore, the corresponding wastewaters present high content of TOC (total organic carbon). Therefore due to the high degree of toxicity it is very important to study and develop treatments of these wastewaters before discharge to the environmental. This research aims to decompose these compounds using advanced oxidative processes (AOP) based on the photo-Fenton system. The advantage of this system is the fast and non-selective oxidation promoted by the hydroxyl radicals (●OH), that is under determined conditions can totally convert the organic pollutants to CO2 and H2O. In order to evaluate the decomposition of the organic charge system samples of the real wastewater od a processing cashew nut industry were taken. This industry was located at the country of the state of Rio Grande do Norte. The experiments were carried out with a photochemical annular reactor equipped with UV (ultra violet) lamp. Based on preliminary experiments, a Doehlert experimental design was defined to optimize the concentrations of H2O2 and Fe(II) with a total of 13 runs. The experimental conditions were set to pH equal to 3 and temperature of 30°C. The power of the lamps applied was 80W, 125W and 250W. To evaluate the decomposition rate measures of the TOC were accomplished during 4 hours of experiment. According to the results, the organic removal obtained in terms of TOC was 80% minimum and 95% maximum. Furthermore, it was gotten a minimum time of 49 minutes for the removal of 30% of the initial TOC. Based on the obtained experimental results, the photo-Fenton system presents a very satisfactory performance as a complementary treatment of the wastewater studied

Estudo da remoção de compostos orgânicos, benzeno e tolueno, em solução aquosa por processo oxidativo avançado do tipo Fenton

The oil and petrochemical industry is responsable to generate a large amount of waste and wastewater. Among some efluents, is possible find the benzene, toluene, ethilbenze and isomers of xilenes compounds, known as BTEX. These compounds are very volatily, toxic for environment and potencially cancerigenous in man. Oxidative advanced processes, OAP, are unconventional waste treatment, wich may be apply on treatment and remotion this compounds. Fenton is a type of OAPs, wich uses the Fenton s reactant, hydrogen peroxide and ferrous salt, to promove the organic degradation. While the Photo-Fenton type uses the Fenton s reactant plus UV radiation (ultraviolet). These two types of OAP, according to literature, may be apply on BTEX complex system. This project consists on the consideration of the utilization of technologies Fenton and Photo-Fenton in aqueous solution in concentration of 100 ppm of BTEX, each, on simulation of condition near of petrochemical effluents. Different reactors were used for each type of OAP. For the analyticals results of amount of remotion were used the SPME technique (solid phase microextraction) for extraction in gaseous phase of these analytes and the gas chromatography/mass espectrometry The arrangement mechanical of Photo-Fenton system has been shown big loss by volatilization of these compounds. The Fenton system has been shown capable of degradate benzene and toluene compounds, with massic percentage of remotion near the 99%.

Degradação do fungicida tiofanato metílico pelo processo foto-Fenton em reatores anular e solar

Effluents from pesticide industries have great difficulty to decontaminate the environment and, moreover, are characterized by high organic charge and toxicity. The research group Center for Chemical Systems Engineering (CESQ) at the Department of Chemical Engineering of Polytechnical School of University of São Paulo and Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte have been applying the Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOP's) for the degradation of various types of pollutants. These processes are based on the generation of hydroxyl radicals, highly reactive substances. Thus, this dissertation aims to explore this process, since it has been proven to be quite effective in removing organic charge. Therefore, it was decided by photo-Fenton process applied to the degradation of the fungicide Thiophanate methyl in aqueous system using annular reactor (with lamp Philips HPLN 125W) and solar. The samples were collected during the experiment and analyzed for dissolved organic carbon (TOC) using a Shimadzu TOC (Shimadzu 5050A e VCP). The Doehlert experimental design has been used to evaluate the influence of ultraviolet radiation, the concentrations of methyl thiophanate (C12H14N4O4S2), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and iron ions (Fe2+), among these parameters, was considered the best experimental conditions, [Fe2+] = 0.6 mmol/L and [H2O2] = 0.038 mol/L in EXP 5 experiment and in SOL 5 experiment, obtaining a percentage of TOC removal of 60% in the annular reactor and 75% in the solar reactor

Integração dos processos de flotação e foto-fenton para redução de óleos e graxas de água produzida em campos de petróleo

During production of oil and gas, there is also the production of an aqueous effluent called produced water. This byproduct has in its composition salts, organic compounds, gases and heavy metals. This research aimed to evaluate the integration of processes Induced Air Flotation (IAF) and photo-Fenton for reducing the Total Oils and Greases (TOG) present in produced water. Experiments were performed with synthetic wastewater prepared from the dispersion of crude oil in saline solution. The system was stirred for 25 min at 33,000 rpm and then allowed to stand for 50 min to allow free oil separation. The initial oil concentration in synthetic wastewater was 300 ppm and 35 ppm for the flotation and the photo-Fenton steps, respectively. These values of initial oil concentration were established based on average values of primary processing units in Potiguar Basin. The processes were studied individually and then the integration was performed considering the best experimental conditions found in each individual step. The separation by flotation showed high removal rate of oil with first-order kinetic behavior. The flotation kinetics was dependent on both the concentration and the hydrophilic-lipophilic balance (HLB) of the surfactant. The best result was obtained for the concentration of 4.06.10-3 mM (k = 0.7719 min-1) of surfactant EO 2, which represents 86% of reduction in TOG after 4 min. For series of surfactants evaluated, the separation efficiency was found to be improved by the use of surfactants with low HLB. Regarding the TOG reduction step by photo-Fenton, the largest oil removal reached was 84% after 45 min of reaction, using 0.44 mM and 10 mM of ferrous ions and hydrogen peroxide, respectively. The best experimental conditions encountered in the integrated process was 10 min of flotation followed by 45 min of photo-Fenton with overall TOG reduction of 99%, which represents 5 ppm of TOG in the treated effluent. The integration of processes flotation and photo-Fenton proved to be highly effective in reducing TOG of produced water in oilfields

Hidróxido de níquel suportado em carbono: um catalisador de baixo custo para a eletro-oxidação de alcoóis em meio alcalino

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Degradation of sulfamethoxazole in water by solar photo-Fenton. Chemical and toxicological evaluation

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Photodegradation of the pharmaceuticals amoxicillin, bezafibrate and paracetamol by the photo-Fenton process - Application to sewage treatment plant effluent

Photodegradation of the pharmaceuticals amoxicillin (AMX), bezafibrate (BZF) and paracetamol (PCT) in aqueous solutions via the photo-Fenton process was investigated under black-light and solar irradiation. The influences of iron source, initial H2O2 concentration and matrix (distilled water and sewage treatment plant effluent) on degradation efficiency were discussed in detail. The results showed that (i) the degradation of the drugs was favored in the presence of potassium ferrioxalate (FeOx) in comparison to Fe(NO3)(3): (ii) the increase of the H2O2 concentration improved the efficiency of AMX and BZF oxidation; however, the same was not observed for PCT: (iii) the influence of the matrix was observed for the degradation of BZF and PCT: (iv) under solar irradiation, the oxidation of the BZF and PCT is faster than under black-light irradiation. All these pharmaceuticals can be efficiently degraded employing the process evaluated. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Monitoring pharmaceuticals photo-Fenton degradation process by using Solid Phase Extraction and liquid chromatography

The recovery of the pharmaceuticals bezafibrate and tetracycline from water was evaluated, using Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) with the aim of applying this technique to interrupt the pharmaceuticals' photodegradation by photo-Fenton process for further analysis. Sep-Pack C-18, Strata X, and Oasis HLB cartridges were evaluated. Oasis HLB showed the most satisfactory recovery and repeatability results: 98% (CV - 1%) for bezafibrate (20.0 mg L-1) and 76% (CV = 1%) for tetracycline (25.0 mg L-1). There was not a significant decrease in recovery at lower concentrations of the pharmaceuticals, and neither when present in Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) effluent matrix.

Soil remediation using a coupled process: soil washing with surfactant followed by photo-Fenton oxidation

In the present work the use of a coupled process, soil washing and photo-Fenton oxidation, was investigated for remediation of a soil contaminated with p.p'-DDT (DDT) and p.p'-DDE (DDE), and a soil artificially contaminated with diesel. In the soil washing experiments,Triton X-100(TX-100) aqueous solutions were used at different concentrations to obtain wastewaters with different compositions. Removal efficiencies of 66% (DDT). 80% (DDE) and 100% (diesel) were achieved for three sequential washings using a TX-100 solution strength equivalent to 12 times the effective critical micelle concentration of the surfactant (12 CMC(eff)). The wastewater obtained was then treated using a solar photo-Fenton process. After 6 h irradiation, 99, 95 and 100% degradation efficiencies were achieved for DDT, DDE and diesel, respectively. In all experiments, the concentration of dissolved organic carbon decreased by at least 95%, indicating that residual concentration of contaminants and/or TX-100 in the wastewater was very low. The co-extraction of metals was also evaluated. Among the metals analyzed (Pb, Cr, Ni, Cu. Cd, Mn and Co), only Cr and Mn were detected in the wastewater at concentrations above the maximum value permitted by current Brazilian legislation. The effective removal of contaminants from soil by the TX-100 washing process, together with the high degradation efficiency of the solar photo-Fenton process, suggests that this procedure could be a useful option for soil remediation. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Parameters affecting sulfonamide photo-Fenton degradation - Iron complexation and substituent group

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