Proposição de um modelo de processo de desenvolvimento de produto e gestão de conhecimento para uma equipe de Baja SAE

Abstract

The Baja SAE extension project consists of designing and manufacturing off-road vehicles for inter-university competitions. Based on the program and regulations established by SAE Brazil, teams develop and build prototypes using engineering concepts aligned with mechanical design. Just as companies seek competitive advantages in the market, Baja teams also strive for excellence in project management application as a differential to meet the regulatory requirements of competitions. Given this context, this undergraduate thesis aims to develop an improvement proposal for the Product Development Process (PDP) applied to the needs of the UTFPR - CP Baja team. For this purpose, the reference model proposed by Rozenfeld et al. (2006) was used, which presents a unified model for PDP management. The research methodology adopted was a survey, aiming to analyze the development procedures used by the Baja team and other challenges faced. Throughout the study, questionnaires were applied to identify the team's profile and its participants. The main results revealed that the team lacks a standard model for the product development process, which hinders process standardization and inhibits internal team knowledge management. With the guidelines and improvements proposed in this work, it is expected that there will be a reorganization and better arrangement of the team's activities within the PDP, bringing changes in the team's organizational and operational culture and integrating the continuous improvement process (Kaizen).