Análise do potencial da ferramenta da linha de balanço para obras industriais: estudo de caso

Abstract

The civil construction sector is essential for the economy and development of a country, só companies in this sector are always looking for ways to develop and improve their work methodology. As civil construction has several areas of activity, this work specifically studied the case of industrial works, which is a civil construction sector that involves a large amount of physical and financial resources, its execution time directly impacts the client’s return on investment. One of the initial stages of a project is planning, and within it, a schedule is made that must be followed to meet the deadline stipulated by the client. There are several ways to set up a schedule, and among them the balance line, which was the methodology used to carry out this work, a technique used when there is a very large number of repetitions. In industrial works, the traditional schedule model is used by the Gantt method, só the general objective of this study was to show that there is potential for using the line of balance technique for industrial works. The method of this research included bibliographic research to highlight the main theoretical concepts as well as identify the current level of development of this theme. The technique was applied to the case of an industrial work, and it was verified that the tool has the potential to be used, but it has some difficulties and, on the other, the benefits and improvements for the planning, monitoring and control of works in this sector using the balance line.