metodologia

XXII Encontro Nacional de Engenharia de Produção
Curitiba – PR, 23 a 25 de outubro de 2002

TECNOLOGIA : CONCEITOS E DIMENSÕES
José Carlos Teixeira da Silva, Dr. Eng. Produção/Esc. Politécnica-USP
Prof. Dr. Depto. Engenharia de Produção/FE/Universidade Estadual Paulista-Unesp
Av. Luiz Edmundo Carrijo Coube S/N, Bauru-SP, CEP 17033-360 Email : [e-mail]

Abstract
This paper discusses technology concepts and dimensions, in the field of technology management at the manufacture sector, with respect to product and process. It analyses the generic use nowadays of the term “technology” like “education technology”or management technology”, which are essentially methodology and not technology.Considering the embedded technology in products/process, and technology capability in the organizations, was possible the development or the deployment of the term “technology” creating the concepts of “macrotechnology” and “microtechnology”.
While the macrotechnology is referent to the systemic concept inside the organization, the microtechnology is referent to the technology inside the product/process. Starting with these concepts is possible to analyse strategic and operational aspects of the organization with respect the product technology, the process technology, the technology vulnerability, and the technology capabilit.y. With a preliminar exploratory research was possible to know some ascpects of the organizations’s behavior in the field of the technology at the manufacture sector. It was detected limited capability in those organizations with respect the components of microtecnology, like the “core technoloy” and the” boundaries technologies” , either to the product or process. The same conclusion is valide to the technology capability of those companies, related with the macrotechnology concept.
Key-words : technology, technology management, product development.
1. INTRODUÇÃO E OBJETIVOS
O uso do termo “tecnologia”, oriundo da revolução