Melhoria no processo de desenvolvimento de produtos de uma montadora de caminhões do Paraná

Abstract

The automotive industry is made by large industrial component supplier groups that demand a lot of effort during the product development, making a competitive, innovative and with high quality standard market. Implement improvements that reduce the time needed during the developing process is a challenge, especially when we observe all involved areas on this process. The main goal of this work is develop a tool that help and support the controlling of product development process in a truck manufacture company, mapping all process and steps for all areas to make possible to reduce the lead-time for future developments. For this work, we selected an automotive company in Paraná State, south of Brazil. The reason for choosing this manufacture is that it bring to Brazil market a new concept of customer attendance with an all brand product line in the aftermarket area.This research presented methodological character supported by action research, in a descriptive and qualitative approach The organizational analysis of field research allowed the results to be recorded and applied the new methodology that allowed us to affirm the lead-time for product developing was reduced, resulting in the positive result of the project and research.