Inovações tecnológicas e gerenciais em uma empresa construtora de pequeno porte sem a utilização de tecnologias caras

Abstract

This work describes the participation of a small company in an associative program of technological innovation in the construction companies, known as INOVACON-CE, developed since 1998 and today already in its third edition. The work show the technological innovations implemented by the company, as a system of alert for the difficulties in each place of work known in the Toyota Production System as Andon. In this case, this Andon was developed in the proper construction site, using pipes of PVC and balls of billiards. In case of difficulty in the execution of a service the management of the company informed immediately by the sending of a ball of billiards from the floor where the service is being executed, until the technical room, lead for the canalization of PVC. The work describes the work of the system and the way as it comes being used in the construction site. The work still presents other implemented management mechanisms in a objective way, without the use of expensive technologies, as the line of balance, the massive flagstone with alveolus of ceramic bricks of great dimensions, and the optimization of the use of the squeak through studies of times and movements. It is made a historical ransom of the moments and inspirations that gave origin the modifications introduced starting from the several innovation meeting propitiated by INOVACON-CE.