A competitividade do mercado automotivo global exige que as empresas automobilísticas forneçam um fluxo contínuo de novos produtos, para manter seus níveis de market share. A capacidade de desenvolver produtos com qualidade e inovadores no mercado, transformou-se na marca do sucesso das empresas competitivas. Os especialistas identificaram o desenvolvimento de produtos neste ambiente de alta pressão, como fundamentais para a sobrevivência organizacional. Este trabalho tem como objetivo mostrar práticas que contribuem como mecanismos de ligação entre o Processo Lean de Desenvolvimento de Produtos e o sistema de fabricação fundamentada no Lean Manufacturing. A análise será feita em uma das etapas do projeto do produto, dentro de um ambiente de Engenharia Simultânea, voltada para a manufaturabilidade, utilizando mock-ups digitais. Espera-se ganhos de performance do produto no chão-de-fábrica, a redução de retrabalhos no projeto do produto, e por conseqüência uma redução do lead-time total do programa. Será utilizada uma abordagem quantitativa, com o propósito de avaliar resultados, sobre um programa de um novo veículo, tendo como fonte de dados os diários, documentos e históricos de desenvolvimento e de soluções de problemas de manufaturabilidade, em três casos específicos. Para a análise dos dados foram utilizados números comparativos entre o tempo de desenvolvimento com a aplicação da metodologia proposta e o tempo histórico com a metodologia tradicional incluindo os tempos de correções dos problemas não identificados previamente. As análises realizadas dos dados e informações obtidas indicam que as análises de manufaturabilidade através de mock-ups digitais, podem contribuir com ganhos de aproximadamente 15% no lead-time e uma redução na ordem de 1,64M nos gastos totais do programa, mostrando que as análises de manufaturabilidade, aplicadas ainda na fase embrionária do desenvolvimento do produto, em uma organização fundamentada na filosofia Lean, contribuem eficazmente em um programa para novos veículos na indústria automobilística. / The competitiveness of the global automotive market demands that car companies provide a continuous stream of new products to maintain their levels of market share. The ability to develop innovative and quality products on the market, became the hallmark of successful businesses competitive. Experts identified the development of products in this high-pressure environment as fundamental to organizational survival. This paper aims to demonstrate practices that serve as mechanisms linking the Lean Product Development Process and Manufacturing System based on Lean Manufacturing. The analysis will be done in one step from product design, within a Concurrent Engineering environment, focused on the feasibility by using digital mockups. It is expected gains in product performance on the factory floor, reducing rework in product design, and consequently a reduced lead-time total program. Will use a quantitative approach, in order to assess results on a program of a new vehicle, with the source data diaries, documents and historical development and feasibility solutions for problems in three specific cases. For the analysis of data were used comparative figures between the time of development with the proposed methodology and time history with the traditional methods including time correction of problems not previously identified. The analyzes of the data and information obtained indicates that the analysis of feasibility using digital mock-ups, can help with gains of around 15% for lead-time and a reduction in the order of 1.64 M in total expenditures of the program, showing that the analysis for feasibility, applied even at the embryonic stage of product development in an organization based on the Lean philosophy, contribute effectively in a program for new vehicles in the automotive industry.

Este trabalho objetivou realizar a avaliação econômica comparativa entre as seguintes atividades na região sudoeste paulista: ovinocultura de corte, monocultura de eucalipto visando produção de madeira para celulose e dois modelos de sistema silvipastoril (SSP) composto por clones de eucalipto, pastagem pré-existente e ovinos para o módulo de 30 ha e horizonte de sete anos. Os SSP avaliados possuíam espaçamento 12 x 1 m (SSP I) e 2 x 2 x 12 m (SSP II). Os critérios econômicos utilizados foram o Valor Presente Líquido (VPL) à taxa de desconto de 8 % a.a. e a Taxa Interna de Retorno (TIR). As avaliações econômicas foram realizadas sob condições de risco utilizando-se a simulação Monte Carlo para as variáveis aleatórias consideradas mais relevantes do fluxo de caixa de cada atividade. Para realizar a avaliação econômica da ovinocultura foi necessário primeiramente caracterizar o sistema de produção ovina para a região de estudo mediante visitas técnicas às propriedades pertencentes ao Núcleo Sul Paulista de ovinocultores utilizando-se um questionário semi-estruturado. Na atividade ovina foram consideradas variáveis aleatórias a \"taxa de concepção das ovelhas, taxa de mortalidade dos cordeiros com até 60 dias de idade e taxa de reposição do rebanho\". Admitiu-se para as variáveis mencionadas a distribuição triangular. Na atividade florestal foram consideradas variáveis aleatórias as operações mecanizadas e manuais necessárias para a implantação e manutenção da cultura do eucalipto em espaçamento 3 x 2 m, coletadas da base de dados de uma empresa prestadora de serviços florestais da região. Foi analisado um total de 8.225 informações de implantação e tratos culturais (manutenções) permitindo constituir dois cenários: mecanizado e manual. Dezessete operações foram utilizadas e o rendimento operacional, suas distribuições de probabilidade e parâmetros foram determinados. Para as avaliações dos SSP foram utilizadas as variáveis aleatórias mencionadas de cada atividade, porém, no caso das variáveis aleatórias da atividade florestal, os rendimentos operacionais foram calculados proporcionalmente aos espaçamentos praticados. A análise Monte Carlo considerou 10.000 simulações e foi desenvolvida com o apoio do software @risk. O VPL médio da ovinocultura foi de R$ 2.618,35 para o módulo de 30 hectares e tem elevado desvio padrão, R$ 41.061,86. A TIR dessa atividade apresentou valor de 29,31 % a.a, porém também com desvio padrão elevado (27,70 %). A monocultura de eucalipto apresentou valores médios de VPL positivos para o cenário mecanizado e manual, correspondendo a R$ 71.963,42/30 ha e R$ 73.123,66/30 ha, respectivamente e TIR média superiores à taxa de desconto praticada nesse estudo, 15,58 % a.a. e 15,97 % a.a., respectivamente. O SSP I e o SSP II são economicamente viáveis, apresentando VPL médios de R$ 85.032,45 e R$ 69.521,20 e TIR média de 21,03 e 19,18 %, respectivamente. De acordo com o critério do VPL a atividade mais rentável é o SSP I, seguido pela monocultura de eucalipto (cenário manual e mecanizado, respectivamente), SSP II e ovinocultura. Segundo o critério da TIR a ovinocultura apresenta-se como a atividade mais viável, seguido pelo SSP I, SSP II e a monocultura de eucalipto (cenário manual e mecanizado, respectivamente). / This study aimed to perform an economic evaluation comparing the following activities in the southwestern region of São Paulo state: beef cattle sheep, eucalypt monoculture for pulpwood production and two models of silvopastoral system (SSP) composed of eucalypt clones, natural pasture and sheep to a module of 30 ha and a seven-year cycle. The SSP assessed had a 12 x 1 m spacing (SSP I) and 2 x 2 x 12 m (SSP II). The economic criteria used were the Net Present Value (NPV) at 8% interest rate and the Internal Rate of Return (IRR). The economic evaluations were performed under risk conditions using Monte Carlo simulation for the random variables considered most relevant for each activity´s cash flow. In order to perform an economic evaluation of cattle production it was first necessary to characterize the sheep production system for the study area through technical visits to properties belonging to the \"Núcleo Sul Paulista\" of sheep breeders using a semi-structured questionnaire. In the ovine activity variables random to \"conception rate of ewes, lambs mortality rate of up to 60 days of age and replacement rate of flock\" were considered. Triangular distribution was admitted to the mentioned variables. In forestry, mechanized and manual operations necessary for the implementation and maintenance of eucalypt plantation of 3 x 2 m spacing were considered random variables, collected from the data base of a forestry services company from the region. A total of 8,225 field information data on implantation and cultivation (maintenance) were analyzed, allowing the constitution of a mechanized and a manual scenario. Seventeen operations were used and the operational income, its probability distributions and parameters were determined. Random variables listed for each activity were used for the evaluation of SSP, however, in random variables of forestry activity, the operational earnings were calculated in proportion to the spacing practiced. The Monte Carlo analysis considered 10,000 simulations and was developed with the support of @ risk software. The average NPV of ovine culture was R$ 2,618.35 for the 30-hectare modulus and has a high standard deviation, R$ 41,061.86. IRR for this activity showed a value of 29.31%, but also with a high standard deviation (27.70%). The eucalypt monoculture showed average values of NPV, positive for both mechanized and manual scenarios, corresponding to R$ 71,963.42 / 30 ha and R$ 73,123.66 / 30 ha, respectively, and average IRR superior to the interest rate practiced in this study, 15.58% and 15.97% respectively. SSP I and SSP II are economically viable, with average NPV of R$ 85,032.45 and R$ 69,521.20 and average IRR of 21.03 and 19.18%, respectively. According to the NPV criteria, SSPI proved to be the most profitable activity, followed by eucalypt monoculture (manual and mechanized scenarios, respectively), SSP II and ovine culture. As determined by IRR criteria, cattle production presents itself as the most viable activity, followed by SSP I, SSP II and eucalypt monoculture (manual and mechanized scenarios, respectively).

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-18T17:23:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTACAO_ADRIANA RIBEIRO DA SILVA.pdf: 1163830 bytes, checksum: c403597f947d78945683fa34afa48d7d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-11-03 / Several industrial wastewater treatment plants using biogas from anaerobic processes in plants as a source of fuel for generators of electricity. This biogas comprises mainly methane which results from the digestion of organic matter in bioreactors. Biogas as alternative energy source, can be a viable solution for two major global problems that comes with population growth: increasing energy consumption and increased production of solid, liquid and gaseous. The viability of such use depends directly on the capacity of each project. This work is an approach to the study of economic viability of biogas use generated in a brewery for conversion into electricity. All data collected were collected during the period from June 2013 to July 2014, in the company's information system. The biogas generated in ETEI a brewery for conversion to electricity was studied. As the deployment of value biogas reuse project, the cost reduction opportunity for brewing and demonstrated the economic viability of biogas reuse as electric power through more traditional financial indicators as payback (bp), net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), efficiency ratio and hurdle rate. Because the growth of drinking and consequently organic load in effluent generation, as we have great potential in this business the generation of biogas that can be converted into electrical energy using already dominated the market technology. / Várias estações de tratamento de efluentes industriais utilizam biogás, proveniente de processos anaeróbios, em usinas como fonte de combustível para grupos geradores de energia elétrica. Este biogás é composto principalmente de metano que resulta da digestão da matéria orgânica em biorreatores. O biogás como fonte de energia alternativa, pode ser uma saída viável para dois dos maiores problemas mundial que vem acompanhando o crescimento populacional: o consumo cada vez maior de energia e, o aumento da produção de resíduos sólidos, líquidos e gasosos. A viabilidade desse tipo de utilização depende diretamente da capacidade produtiva de cada empreendimento. Este trabalho faz uma abordagem do estudo de viabilidade econômica do uso de biogás gerado em uma cervejaria para conversão em energia elétrica. Todos os dados levantados foram coletados durante o período de junho de 2013 a julho de 2014, no sistema de informações da empresa. Foi estudada a produção de biogás gerado na ETEI de uma cervejaria para conversão em energia elétrica. Assim como o valor de implantação do projeto de reaproveitamento de biogás, a oportunidade de redução de custo na produção de cerveja e demonstrado a viabilidade econômica do reaproveitamento do biogás como energia elétrica através dos indicadores financeiros mais tradicionais como payback (pb), valor presente líquido (VPL), taxa interna de retorno (TIR), índice de eficiência e taxa de atratividade. Devido o crescimento do consumo de bebidas e consequentemente geração de carga orgânica nos efluentes, temos como grande potencial nesse ramo a geração de biogás que pode ser convertida em energia elétrica utilizando tecnologia já dominada no mercado.

Neste trabalho investigou-se o potencial tecnológico e econômico do processo de secagem em leito de jorro para a produção de extratos secos padronizados de plantas medicinais brasileiras utilizando como modelo experimental a Bauhinia forficata Link. O objetivo foi demonstrar que essa é uma tecnologia potencial para o processamento de plantas medicinais, mercado mundial que gira em torno de 22 bilhões de dólares anuais. Os extratos vegetais apresentam composição química complexa (ácidos graxos, açúcares, fibras, proteínas e resinas) o que torna a etapa de desidratação destes materiais uma tarefa desafiadora, principalmente quando a secagem ocorre sobre a superfície de corpos inertes como no secador de leito de jorro. Torna-se imprescindível, portanto, a utilização de adjuvantes de secagem como as maltodextrinas, amidos, dióxido de silício coloidal entre outros. Dentre os problemas operacionais frequentemente observados pode-se citar o acúmulo de produto sobre a superfície do material inerte tornando-o mais pesado e acarretando em instabilidades fluidodinâmicas e redução da produtividade do equipamento. Um aumento nas taxas de degradação térmica dos princípios ativos também é observado devido à elevação do tempo de exposição do material a elevadas temperaturas. A influência dos adjuvantes de secagem em diferentes proporções (20 a 80 %) sobre as propriedades físicas dos extratos foi avaliada através de ensaios de tensão superficial, ângulo de contato, desprendimento do filme de extrato da superfície inerte, densidade e comportamento reológico. Ensaios de secagem com diversos adjuvantes apontaram o dióxido de silício coloidal como o responsável pelos melhores resultados, sendo o material de escolha para os ensaios seguintes. Os ensaios de secagem realizados em duas configurações de leito de jorro (convencional e com instalação de tubo draft) foram delineados através de um planejamento composto central onde as variáveis estudadas foram a % de adjuvante (% Adj), a vazão do ar de secagem (Q/Qjm), e a vazão de suspensão alimentada ao sistema (Ws/Wg), sendo a temperatura de secagem (Tge), fixada em 150 C. Os resultados da análise estatística e as tendências observadas dos efeitos das variáveis independentes estudadas (% Adj, Q/Qjm e Ws/Wg) sobre as variáveis respostas, recuperação do produto (Rec), acúmulo de material no leito (Ac), perda por dessecação (Xp), degradação dos flavonóides (DTF), e diâmetro médio das partículas (Dp), mostram que as variáveis % Adj e Q/Qjm apresentaram significância estatística sobre o processo de secagem, para as condições operacionais estudadas. Análises físicas e químicas como Xp, DTF, Dp, perfil cromatográfico, difração de raios X e comportamento térmico, e o monitoramento do desempenho do equipamento de secagem (Rec e Ac) foram realizadas. Ensaios de atividade antioxidante e hipoglicemiante foram realizados para os melhores extratos apresentando resultados promissores. De posse do conhecimento tecnológico do processo, realizou-se um levantamento de sua viabilidade econômica. Foram estimados os gastos necessários para a montagem de uma unidade (pequena escala) produtora de extratos secos e os custos médios envolvidos na obtenção do produto final. Os resultados deste trabalho indicam a viabilidade técnica e econômica do processo em leito de jorro para a obtenção de extratos secos de plantas medicinais, despontando como um processo alternativo frente ao spray dryer comumente usado nas indústrias de processamento fitoterápico. / The aim of this work was to investigate the technological and economical feasibility of the spouted bed drying process for production of the standardized dried extracts of Brazilian medicinal plants using the Bauhinia forficata Link as an experimental model. The objective was to demonstrate the potential of this technology for the processing of medicinal plants, a world market of 22 billions of dollars a year. Vegetable extracts have a complex chemical composition (fatty acids, sugars, fibers, proteins and resins), making the dehydration of these materials a challenging task, mainly for drying on the surface of inert bodies, like the spouted bed drying. Thus, the use of drying aids like maltodextrins, starch, colloidal silicon dioxide is mandatory. Among the operating problems frequently observed, there is the product accumulation on the surface of the inert material increasing its weight, causing hydrodynamic instabilities and reduction of the equipment productivity. A high increase in the thermal degradation of the active substances is also observed. This behavior is attributed to the increase in the exposure time of the material at high temperatures. The effects of the different proportions of drying aids (20 to 80 %) on the physical properties of the extracts were evaluated through determination of the surface tension, contact angle, detachment of the extract film from the surface of the inert material, density and rheological behavior. Drying tests carried out with several drying aids showed a better performance with the colloidal silicon dioxide, being the selected material for the further tests. Drying runs were carried out in two spouted bed configurations (conventional and with draft tube), according to a central composite design. The variables studied were the % of the drying adjuvant, the drying gas flow rate, parameterized by the ratio Q/Qjm, and the flow rate of the extract fed to the system (Ws/Wg). The statistical analysis results and the effects presented by independent variables (% Adj, Q/Qjm and Ws/Wg), on the responses product recovery (Rec), product accumulation in the bed (Ac), loss on drying (Xp), flavonoid degradation (DTF), and mean powder diameter (Dp), showed a significant effect of the parameters % Adj and Q/Qjm, for the operating conditions investigated. Physical and chemical analysis of the dried product, such as loss on drying, degradation of the active substances, particle size distribution, chromatographic profiles, X-ray diffraction, thermal behavior, and the monitoring of the equipment performance (Rec and Ac) were performed. Evaluation of the antioxidant and hypoglycemic activity were carried out for the extracts obtained at optimized conditions, presenting promising results. After the technological investigation, an evaluation of the economical viability of the process was carried out. The installation costs of a small scale unity for production of dried extracts, and the average costs involved for the obtaining of the final product were estimated. The results of this work indicated the technical and economical feasibility of the spouted bed drying for the production of dried extracts of medicinal plants, emerging as an alternative to the spray drying, commonly used in the phytotherapic processing industries.

Context: Google App Engine (GAE) is a cloud computing platform, which allows developers to develop and deploy web based applications on it. It is composed of hundreds of thousands of commodity servers, distributed globally. GAE scales computing resources automatically, and developers only pay for the amount of time their application uses GAE resources. It imposes some restrictions and limitations on the design and development of applications such as execution time limit, lack of global transactions, way of communication with other applications etc. Objectives: In this study, we evaluate Google App Engine from enterprise application development point of view. We analyzed the behavior and architecture of Google App Engine to evaluate its feasibility for enterprise application development and compared it with Amazon Elastic Compute 2 (Amazon cloud service). We also studied Google App Engine storage system, Bigtable, which is a distributed non-SQL based data store. Methods: In this research study, we performed a literature study of the related cloud computing technologies and then a prototype enterprise application was developed for experiment. Results: Our literature study showed that Google App Engine has some limitations and restrictions on the development tools and environment. It does not provide support for global transaction, lacks strict consistency mechanisms, and provides highly virtualized and abstract view of the platform to the developer. Despite these limitations, the literature study and our experiment showed that Google App Engine is suited for applications with high read, searching and large write-stream operations. Google App Engine showed consistent performance as compared to Amazon Elastic Compute 2 in our experiment. Conclusions: We conclude that Google App Engine is a scalable platform while maintaining consistent performance but has some limitations due to its architecture and restrictions imposed on the development tools and environment. These limitations make it non-feasible for some types of enterprise applications, such as applications with high and intensive data computation requirement. But in other cases, such as simple data management and non-transactional applications, Google App Engine is an attractive platform.

Software testing verifies the program's functional behavior, one important process when engineering critical software. Measuring the degree of testing is done with code coverage, describing the amount of production code affected by tests. Both concepts are extensively used for industrial systems. Previous research has shown that gathering and analyzing test coverages becomes problematic on large-scale systems. Here, development experience, implementation feasibility, coverage measurements and analysis method are explored; providing potential solutions and insights into these issues. Outlined are methods for constructing and integrating such gathering and analysis system in a large-scale project, along with the problems encountered and given remedies. Instrumentations for gathering coverage information affect performance negatively, these measurements are provided. Since large-scale test suite measurements are quite lacking, the line, branch, and function criteria are presented here. Finally, an analysis method is proposed, by using coverage set operations and Jaccard indices, to find test similarities. Results gathered imply execution time was significantly affected when gathering coverage, [2.656, 2.911] hours for instrumented software, originally between [2.075, 2.260] on the system under test, given under the alpha = 5% and n = 4, while both processor & memory usages were inconclusive. Measured criteria were (59.3, 70.7, 24.6)% for these suites. Analysis method shows potential areas of test redundancy.

There is no standard format for posting blog entries, which results in many different web feed formats and APIs being used. This thesis work addresses the problem by determining the feasibility of the development of a plug-in based architecture, used in a mobile blogging application compatible with multiple service providers. During the study, a definition of what a feasible architecture would be was made based on requirements set by the stakeholders. Six models that complied with this definition were designed and compared. One of them was selected for prototyping. The prototyping phase was intended to test if the architecture could be implemented in a mobile environment. The study revealed that it is feasible to develop a plug-in based architecture to solve the problem, although with some limitations due to the dependency of libraries for streaming XML transformations not yet implemented in J2ME. / Det finns inget standardformat för att posta ett blogginlägg, vilket resulterar i att många olika web feed-format och APIer används. Det här examensarbetet angriper problemet genom att undersöka om det är genomförbart att utveckla en plug-inbaserad arkitektur för en applikation till mobiltelefoner, som är kompatibel med flera olika bloggtjänster. Under studiens gång definierade vi vad termen genomförbart skulle innebära, baserat på krav från olika intressenter. Sex modeller som uppfyllde definitionen utvecklades och jämfördes. En av dessa valdes ut för att användas som grund för en prototyp. Prototypfasen avsåg att bevisa om arkitekturen kunde implementeras i en mobil miljö. Studien visade att det är genomförbart att utveckla en plug-inbaserad arkitektur för att lösa problemet, dock med några begränsningar på grund av beroende av bibliotek för strömmande XMLtransformationer som ännu inte implementerats i J2ME.

L’alignement stratégique du système d’information est une problématique récurrente en entreprise, de nombreux projets opérations à dimension système d’information ne permettant pas d’obtenir les gains attendus par les Directions Générales. Face à ces nombreux constats d’échecs, plusieurs variables explicatives peuvent être invoquées. Cette recherche vise à en tester une, celle du mépris des faisabilités opérationnelles. Le terme de mépris a été choisi à dessein afin d’insister sur la dimension « incarnée » de la manoeuvre d’alignement, et notamment des « conditions que l’on puisse faire » qui sont exprimées par les différentes parties prenantes. Fondée sur une double définition du mépris interrogeant le thème de la « prise » comme de la « mé-prise », les résultats obtenus dans le cadre de cette recherche exploratoire font du mépris des faisabilités opérationnelles un objet en sciences de gestion et montrent que le mépris des faisabilités opérationnelles peut être l’une des variables explicatives du désalignement stratégique. / Information system alignment is a vital subject in companies as many IT projects fail to achieve the benefits expected by top management. To explain this statement, many variables can be put forward. We decided to focus our study on one of those potential explanatory reasons which is “contempt for operational feasibilities”. The “contempt” expression has been precisely chosen to underline the embodied dimension of strategic alignment, and, in particular, “the underpinning conditions under which one can realize” as expressed by project stakeholders. Based on a twofold definition of contempt questioning the action of “taking” and “mis-taking” operational feasibilities, the results collected during this exploratory research highlight the relevance of placing this subject in the field of management and show how contempt for operational feasibilities can have proven effects on information system misalignment.

Background. Stepped care is widely implemented as a means to organise depression treatment. However, it is unclear how this system and the system it was designed to replace – long-term intensive psychotherapy for all – compare. Aim. To further the development and evaluation of stepped care. Specifically, assess the clinical effectiveness of stepped care and prepare for a fully-powered evaluation of stepped care vs. high-intensity psychotherapy alone for depressed adults. Design. A systematic review and mixed methods feasibility study encompassing a pilot randomised controlled trial and semi-structured interviews. Results of the systematic review. Fourteen randomised controlled trials involving 4580 participants were included. Relative to controls, there was significantly greater improvement in depression for adults treated with stepped care (d=0.34 at six months; 95% CI 0.20 to 0.48). The quality of included studies was good and there was little evidence of publication bias. All comparisons were with usual care. Results of the feasibility study. 66 patients were recruited to the pilot trial. The recruitment rate was 2.9% and follow-up data was obtained from 90.9% of participants. A third of stepped care patients stepped up to high-intensity therapy. Patients improved in both groups: the mean reduction in depressive symptoms was 13.4 in the stepped care group and 13.6 in the high-intensity therapy alone group. Recruitment methods were appropriate to patients and therapists but only somewhat appropriate to IAPT staff. Although the stepped care intervention was broadly acceptable to therapists, patient experience varied and some patients who demonstrated a low level of self-efficacy declined any therapy or dropped out of treatment. Conclusions. The effectiveness of stepped care compared with long-term intensive psychological therapy for all has not yet been established. A fully-powered trial of stepped care vs. high-intensity therapy alone is feasible although pilot trial methods and procedures should be modified to improve recruitment and acceptability.

The definition of environmental sustainability has emerged strongly in the past decades. Industrial organizations worldwide have gone through a number of changes to take their social responsibilities and maintain sustainability by, among other things, replacing the conventional energy-based applications by renewable energy-based solutions. A so-called hybrid power system for electrification, consisting of wind turbines and solar panels, was developed by Vertical Wind AB to be installed on rooftops of residential buildings. The present thesis project analyzed the willingness of the large real estate companies in Uppsala region to adopt the new concept for electrification and conducted a market research on the new developed wind turbines, by Vertical Wind AB, in addition to solar- and wind resources in the target locations. It turned out that the willingness of having such a power system for electrification was high but not extremely high as expected and the hybrid power system was perceived as any other product or investment on the market where profitability is the vital decision parameter while the environmental aspect was slightly considered.