industria cerâmica
Palavras Chave: Indústria de cerâmica; Engenharia Econômica; Custos; Payback;
Abstract: Brazilian economy is now going through a growth time, and many industrial segments are trying to optimize their productions by cutting costs, emphasizing quality and releasing new products in the market. This scenario suggests that productive process modernization is extremely important to the sustenance of competitiveness and demand satisfaction. The decision about reposition or maintenance of equipment in transformation industries demands, in most of the cases, a high-impact investment. This kind of decision may generate satisfactory results to the industry, even though, if poorly analyzed, it can also bring irreparable loss. In this context, the main goal of the present research is to investigate the viability analysis of equipment replacement, as well as productivity gains derived of this investment, in a red ceramics company placed at the Cariri region, in the state of Paraíba.
Keywords: Ceramics Industry; Economic Engineering; Costs; Payback;
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