Indústria de transformação no estado do ceará: uma análise de 2006 até 2015

Abstract

The manufacturing industry comprises the activities that involve physical, chemical and biological transformation of materials, substances and components for new products. It can be divided into basic industry or consumer goods and production goods industry. This work has the purpose to find out the growth of manufacturing industry, in the state of Ceará, within a period of 10 years, through a historical analysis of the development of this industry in national, regional and state level, in addition to give an overview for current students of mechanical engineering on the processing industry stage in Ceará, thus, the prospect of future employment opportunities. The study of this work is done using statistical data provided in the yearbooks from the site of the Institute of Research and Economic Strategy of Ceará, in the period for 2006 until 2015 due to availability of these annuals on the site. This site also provides tables with their respective amounts of processing industries in each municipality. Due to the large number of municipalities found in annuals, it is chosen to focus on ten most featured municipalities and, this way, achieve better visualization of changes along the studied period, because they represent the largest portion of industries in the state. Due the increase of numbers of state’s transformation industries, the use of ArcGIS v.10 software is of great help to the development of the work, because the program is intended giving a direct view of industries concentration in Ceará using maps. The comparison using the ArcGIS v. 10 is made between 2006 and 2016, since they are the first and last annuals analyzed. In this work, is noticed a growth of 224.85% in quantity of industries in the state of Ceará, where Fortaleza and Caucaia contribute valuably to the growth of the State.