Este trabalho aborda a relação do móvel seriado e componível, para fins residenciais no Brasil, com as novas habitações destinadas à população de baixa renda. O enfoque do estudo centra-se na pesquisa dos principais aspectos dos processos atuais do mobiliário no tocante a sua produção, comercialização, montagem e uso, junto às figuras intervenientes - o usuário, o fabricante, o comerciante e o montador. Seus resultados são confrontados com o padrão das moradias produzidas atualmente para esta classe social, cujo modelo referencial majoritário é refletido pelas habitações geradas pelo programa \'Minha Casa Minha Vida\' do governo federal, na busca de proposições e recomendações, no âmbito do mobiliário, que melhor integrem ambos os sistemas. / This work brings into focus the relationship between the mass production of modular furniture for residential purposes in Brazil and new housing programs for the low income class. The core of the study emphasizes the research of the main aspects of the current furniture processes regarding its production, marketing, assembly and use, with the agents of the chain - the costumer, the manufacturer, the dealer and the assembler. The results are compared with the standard of houses currently produced for that social class, which major reference model is the houses of the program \"My Home My Life\" (\"Minha Casa Minha Vida) sponsored by the federal government, aiming to search proposals and recommendations, under the furniture scope, which can better integrate both systems - furniture and housing industries.

<p>The project consisted of developing an office workstation specially designed to compete at the Spanish market. The assignment was received from the Daifuku Designs, a design company in Barcelona, Spain. Daifuku Designs are well experienced in various kinds of product and interior design, but has not designed office furniture earlier. The project’s purpose was to introduce the company to the branch of office furniture.</p><p>The research phase consisted in three different parts, a survey concerning office work that was handed out to Swedish and Spanish office workers and cleaning staff, studies of the world leading companies in the branch of office furniture and educational visits at different showrooms and offices.</p><p>The project resulted in a desk that is offering a flexible space dividing system and a unique cord solution. The space dividers can be put anywhere along the desktop and are easily moved by hand. All the cords and cables are hidden in the desk and computers, phones, e.g. can be installed anywhere on the desk. The desk can be used both separately and in big office landscape. Flexibility is a common sales argument and the demand of this kind of flexibility is constantly growing. The trends to hire personnel and to work in temporary project groups are two reasons to the growing demand. The office furniture needs to be able to be used in different ways when the constellation of the project group is changing. It is a big advantage if the same desks can be used for different occasions.</p> / <p>Projektet bestod av att utveckla ett kontorsskrivbord, designat för att marknadsföras på den spanska marknaden. Uppdragsgivare var Daifuku Designs, ett designföretag i Barcelona, Spanien. Daifuku Designs har stor erfarenhet i olika sorters produkt- och inredningsdesign men har ej designat kontorsmöbler tidigare. Projektets syfte var att introducera företaget på kontorsmöbelmarknaden.</p><p>Researchfasen bestod av tre olika delar, en enkät om kontorsarbete som gavs ut till svenska och spanska kontorsarbetare samt städpersonal, studier av världsledande företag inom kontorsmöbelindustrin samt studiebesök på olika showrooms och kontor.</p><p>Projektet resulterade i ett skrivbord som erbjuder ett flexibelt avskärmningssystem samt en unik sladdlösning. Avskärmningarna kan sättas vart som helst längs skrivbordet samt kan lätt flyttas för hand. Alla sladdar och kabeldosor är gömda i skrivbordet och datorer, telefoner, etc. kan installeras vartsomhelst på skrivbordet. Skrivbordet kan användas separat så väl som i ett större kontorslandskap. Flexibilitet är ett vanligt säljargument, behovet av denna typ av flexibilitet växer hela tiden. Trenden att hyra in personal samt att jobba i projektgrupper är två anledningar till det växande behovet. Kontorsmöbeln måste kunna användas i många olika grupperingar när konstellationen i projektgruppen förändras. Det är en stor fördel om skrivbordet kan användas för många olika tillfällen.</p>

The increasing impact of mass production and consumption behaviours have made sustainable product design an important issue in design literature in the last two decades. Studies in the early period focussed on research projects carried out in collaboration with multinational large-sized enterprises, owing to pressures from non-governmental organizations. However, recent studies about sustainable development have pointed out that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) rather than multinationals have a greater share of manufacturing and employment in both industrialized and industrializing countries. Unfortunately, in spite of the important role of SMEs, there is inadequate data and literature relating sustainable design practices to these firms. A lack of information and collaboration, caused partially by communication problems, has resulted in an absence of proper sustainable product design tools for these companies. Furniture enterprises in Ankara are the focus of this study because of the impact of product design in market possibilities and the spread of employment of product designers in the sector. Attitudes of staff and consultants of furniture SMEs regarding barriers and opportunities of sustainable product design are explored, and contrasted with overlapping points of existing product development methods and strategies in the literature. This work is intended to contribute to improved understanding and application of sustainable product design among furniture sector SMEs. To this end, interviews were conducted with 16 furniture manufacturing enterprises from the furniture industry, based in Ankara region and 5 freelance furniture designers cooperating with these enterprises. According to the results of the study, furniture sector SMEs are interested more in economic opportunities of sustainable product design rather than environmental and social aspects. Furthermore, a lack of information about environmental issues is observed in micro and small-sized enterprises / to overcome this situation, it is recommended that training sessions are organized to bring together researchers and practitioners.

The project consisted of developing an office workstation specially designed to compete at the Spanish market. The assignment was received from the Daifuku Designs, a design company in Barcelona, Spain. Daifuku Designs are well experienced in various kinds of product and interior design, but has not designed office furniture earlier. The project’s purpose was to introduce the company to the branch of office furniture. The research phase consisted in three different parts, a survey concerning office work that was handed out to Swedish and Spanish office workers and cleaning staff, studies of the world leading companies in the branch of office furniture and educational visits at different showrooms and offices. The project resulted in a desk that is offering a flexible space dividing system and a unique cord solution. The space dividers can be put anywhere along the desktop and are easily moved by hand. All the cords and cables are hidden in the desk and computers, phones, e.g. can be installed anywhere on the desk. The desk can be used both separately and in big office landscape. Flexibility is a common sales argument and the demand of this kind of flexibility is constantly growing. The trends to hire personnel and to work in temporary project groups are two reasons to the growing demand. The office furniture needs to be able to be used in different ways when the constellation of the project group is changing. It is a big advantage if the same desks can be used for different occasions. / Projektet bestod av att utveckla ett kontorsskrivbord, designat för att marknadsföras på den spanska marknaden. Uppdragsgivare var Daifuku Designs, ett designföretag i Barcelona, Spanien. Daifuku Designs har stor erfarenhet i olika sorters produkt- och inredningsdesign men har ej designat kontorsmöbler tidigare. Projektets syfte var att introducera företaget på kontorsmöbelmarknaden. Researchfasen bestod av tre olika delar, en enkät om kontorsarbete som gavs ut till svenska och spanska kontorsarbetare samt städpersonal, studier av världsledande företag inom kontorsmöbelindustrin samt studiebesök på olika showrooms och kontor. Projektet resulterade i ett skrivbord som erbjuder ett flexibelt avskärmningssystem samt en unik sladdlösning. Avskärmningarna kan sättas vart som helst längs skrivbordet samt kan lätt flyttas för hand. Alla sladdar och kabeldosor är gömda i skrivbordet och datorer, telefoner, etc. kan installeras vartsomhelst på skrivbordet. Skrivbordet kan användas separat så väl som i ett större kontorslandskap. Flexibilitet är ett vanligt säljargument, behovet av denna typ av flexibilitet växer hela tiden. Trenden att hyra in personal samt att jobba i projektgrupper är två anledningar till det växande behovet. Kontorsmöbeln måste kunna användas i många olika grupperingar när konstellationen i projektgruppen förändras. Det är en stor fördel om skrivbordet kan användas för många olika tillfällen.

In this thesis, the design considerations of a healthy and stimulating bedroom environment for preschool period children are analyzed. In order to build up a multipurpose environment, the development of the preschool children, necessary items of furniture and the related design concepts are discussed. General design criteria are determined to constitute a guide for a children bedroom environment of preschool period. Under the light of these data, a research is conducted to analyze today&rsquo / s children furniture market in Turkey.

The diploma thesis deals with the analysis of the qualitative level of furniture available on the Czech market in the context of quality labels. The most important mark of quality for the section of furniture is a brand of Czech quality, furniture, which is a central issue for this work. Introduction of thesis is dedicated to the theoretical analysis to ensure a closer acquaintance with the true issue. Continuing practical part of the thesis is devoted to the analysis of the quality of the furniture present on the Czech market, which was carried out by means of questionnaires. Addressed were primarily manufacturers of furniture, who do not possess the marks, and consumers. For obtaining the third were referred to research supplemented by the investigation carried out by the technical services of accredited for the testing of furniture. The outputs obtained from the questionnaires were linked in the form of a synthesis of the data which describes the current situation in the section of furniture on the Czech market. After analytic-synthetic part followed the discussion, which was created with the use of study Furniture 2010 published by INCOMA GfK. The last part of the work is result, which was primarily intended to confirm or refute the hypothesis set out, where applicable, to the summary of the most important knowledge related to the quality of the furniture on the Czech market.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O presente trabalho visou levantar e analisar dados sobre o desenvolvimento de design na produção contemporânea das indústrias moveleiras dos pólos de Bento Gonçalves e Flores da Cunha, no Rio Grande do Sul. Para tanto, foram abordadas questões referentes ao desenvolvimento brasileiro, de acordo com os aspectos social, cultural e industrial; à indústria moveleira, em relação aos panoramas internacional, nacional e sul-rio-grandense; aos processos de imigração, em especial a italiana, que se instalou na Serra Gaúcha; ao desenvolvimento industrial, principalmente moveleiro, no Rio Grande do Sul; à institucionalização do design neste Estado; aos designers gaúchos e seus escritórios; e aos pólos moveleiros da Serra Gaúcha, representados pelas cidades de Bento Gonçalves e Flores da Cunha. A partir dessa fundamentação teórica, realizou-se uma pesquisa de campo que abrangeu nove empresas moveleiras dos pólos citados. Dessa forma, chegou-se a resultados apresentados pelo panorama pesquisado que propiciaram a discussão sobre a produção moveleira dessa região. / The following paper aimed at researching and analyzing the data about the design development in the contemporary production of furniture industries in Bento Gonçalves and Flores da Cunha towns, in Rio Grande do Sul state. For doing so, some questions about the following topics were considered: the Brazilian development, according to social, cultural and industrial aspects; the furniture industry, in relation to the international, national and sul-rio-grandense views; the processes of immigration, especially the Italian one, installed in the Serra Gaúcha; the industrial development, mainly the furniture one, in Rio Grande do Sul state; the institutionalization of design in this state; the gauchos designers and their offices; and the furniture poles of the Serra Gaúcha, represented by Bento Gonçalves e Flores da Cunha towns. From this theoretical base, a field research, which involved nine furniture companies placed the cities previously quoted, was done. Then, the results achieved presented the researched view and enabled some discussion about the furniture production in such region.

A importância da inovação, para o desenvolvimento socioeconômico de uma região, reside na capacidade de transformação econômica, porém é necessário que a empresa adote a inovação como parte de sua estratégia e que isto esteja atrelado a um padrão setorial de comportamento inovador para ampliar a capacidade competitiva da organização, neste sentido o Arranjo Produtivo local (APL) tem um papel fundamental no desenvolvimento das empresas e da região. A inovação tem sido tema de estudos em vários setores da atividade econômica, emergindo como resposta à melhoria da performance competitiva das organizações. As empresas, na busca de uma melhor posição no mercado, se valem da inovação, utilizando e desenvolvendo novas tecnologias, produtos, serviços e métodos de gestão. A indústria moveleira do Rio Grande do Sul tem seu principal APL situado na Serra Gaúcha. Neste contexto do setor moveleiro, a utilização racional de recursos estratégicos e a geração de .inovações têm sido usados como meio de manter e ampliar a posição de mercado das organizações, portanto o tema fundamental desta Tese é a inovação de produto e os recursos estratégicos sob a ótica da resource based view, em uma perspectiva destes tornarem-se fonte geradora de vantagem competitiva sustentável. Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo geral mensurar e analisar a relação entre a inovação de produto e os recursos utilizados pelas empresas da indústria moveleira, na perspectiva da vantagem competitiva. A metodologia utilizada nesta pesquisa é um estudo do tipo quantitativo, descritivo, através de uma survey. Os meios de investigação utilizados para a coleta de dados ocorreu por meio de uma entrevista estruturada, com um questionário aplicado a 423 empresas. Para a análise dos dados utilizou-se a Modelagem de Equações Estruturais (Structural Equation Modeling). Através de resultados aferidos nesta pesquisa, obteve-se a análise da relação entre a inovação de produto e os recursos utilizados pelas empresas no APL Moveleiro da Serra Gaúcha. A contribuição para as pesquisas acadêmicas deste estudo reside nos resultados obtidos para avaliar a relação entre os recursos específicos (Sistema de Informação, Pessoas, Gestão do Conhecimento, Aliança) com a inovação de produto e deste com o Sucesso do Novo Produto. No estudo empírico observou-se que a inovação de produto é resultado do uso de recursos, os quais configuram antecedentes da inovação. A comunidade empresarial encontra neste estudo um método para avaliar os antecedentes de inovação de produto, considerando que as empresas possuem recursos capazes de produzir inovações e impactar na performance frente a outras organizações. Neste estudo as empresas da indústria moveleira encontram informações relativas ao uso de recursos estratégicos, que ampliam a capacidade inovativa. / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2015-11-24T12:01:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Julio Cesar Ferro de Guimaraes.pdf: 3922205 bytes, checksum: 97076280ed29fd0f8fc28102e198497f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-11-24T12:01:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Julio Cesar Ferro de Guimaraes.pdf: 3922205 bytes, checksum: 97076280ed29fd0f8fc28102e198497f (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, CAPES. / The importance of innovation to socio-economic development of a region, lies in the ability of economic transformation; but it is necessary that a company adopt innovation as part of its strategy and that this is linked to an industry standard for innovative behavior, to expand its competitive capacity. In this sense a Local Productive Arrangement (LPA). Has a key role in the development of the enterprises and the region. Innovation has been the subject of stuc\ies in various sectors ofthe economic activity, emerging as a response to improve the competitive performance of organizations. The companies, in search of a better market position, believe that innovation is worth using and develop new technologies, products, services and management methods. The furniture industry of Rio Grande do Sul has its rnain LPA located in Serra Gaúcha. In the context of the furniture sector, the rational use of strategic resources and the generation of innovations has been used as a means to maintain and expand the 'market position of organizations; so the fundamental theme of this thesis is to study product innovation and strategic resources from the perspective of resource based view, as a source of sustainable competitive advantage. This research aims to measure and analyze the overall relationship between product innovation and the resources used by companies in APL Furniture Serra Gaúcha, from the perspective of competitive advantage. The methodology used in this research is a quantitative and descriptive study, through a survey. Means of investigation used for data collection occurred through' structured interviews with a questionnaire to 423 companies. For data analysis, was used Structural Equation Modeling methods. Through the results, was obtained the analysis of lhe relationship between product innovation and the resources used by companies of the furniture industry. The contribution of this study for future academic research lies in the results obtained to assess the relationship between specific resources (System lnformation, Human Resource, Knowledge Management, Alliance) with product innovation and with New Product Development Success. The empirical study showed that product innovation is a result of the use of resources, which constitute the conditions for innovation. The business community will find from this study a new method to evaluate the history of product innovation, considering that companies have resources capable of producing innovations and impact performance against other organizations. From this study, the firm's furniture industry finds information on the use of strategic resources, which increase the innovative capacity.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O presente trabalho visou levantar e analisar dados sobre o desenvolvimento de design na produção contemporânea das indústrias moveleiras dos pólos de Bento Gonçalves e Flores da Cunha, no Rio Grande do Sul. Para tanto, foram abordadas questões referentes ao desenvolvimento brasileiro, de acordo com os aspectos social, cultural e industrial; à indústria moveleira, em relação aos panoramas internacional, nacional e sul-rio-grandense; aos processos de imigração, em especial a italiana, que se instalou na Serra Gaúcha; ao desenvolvimento industrial, principalmente moveleiro, no Rio Grande do Sul; à institucionalização do design neste Estado; aos designers gaúchos e seus escritórios; e aos pólos moveleiros da Serra Gaúcha, representados pelas cidades de Bento Gonçalves e Flores da Cunha. A partir dessa fundamentação teórica, realizou-se uma pesquisa de campo que abrangeu nove empresas moveleiras dos pólos citados. Dessa forma, chegou-se a resultados apresentados pelo panorama pesquisado que propiciaram a discussão sobre a produção moveleira dessa região. / The following paper aimed at researching and analyzing the data about the design development in the contemporary production of furniture industries in Bento Gonçalves and Flores da Cunha towns, in Rio Grande do Sul state. For doing so, some questions about the following topics were considered: the Brazilian development, according to social, cultural and industrial aspects; the furniture industry, in relation to the international, national and sul-rio-grandense views; the processes of immigration, especially the Italian one, installed in the Serra Gaúcha; the industrial development, mainly the furniture one, in Rio Grande do Sul state; the institutionalization of design in this state; the gauchos designers and their offices; and the furniture poles of the Serra Gaúcha, represented by Bento Gonçalves e Flores da Cunha towns. From this theoretical base, a field research, which involved nine furniture companies placed the cities previously quoted, was done. Then, the results achieved presented the researched view and enabled some discussion about the furniture production in such region.

Este trabalho aborda a relação do móvel seriado e componível, para fins residenciais no Brasil, com as novas habitações destinadas à população de baixa renda. O enfoque do estudo centra-se na pesquisa dos principais aspectos dos processos atuais do mobiliário no tocante a sua produção, comercialização, montagem e uso, junto às figuras intervenientes - o usuário, o fabricante, o comerciante e o montador. Seus resultados são confrontados com o padrão das moradias produzidas atualmente para esta classe social, cujo modelo referencial majoritário é refletido pelas habitações geradas pelo programa \'Minha Casa Minha Vida\' do governo federal, na busca de proposições e recomendações, no âmbito do mobiliário, que melhor integrem ambos os sistemas. / This work brings into focus the relationship between the mass production of modular furniture for residential purposes in Brazil and new housing programs for the low income class. The core of the study emphasizes the research of the main aspects of the current furniture processes regarding its production, marketing, assembly and use, with the agents of the chain - the costumer, the manufacturer, the dealer and the assembler. The results are compared with the standard of houses currently produced for that social class, which major reference model is the houses of the program \"My Home My Life\" (\"Minha Casa Minha Vida) sponsored by the federal government, aiming to search proposals and recommendations, under the furniture scope, which can better integrate both systems - furniture and housing industries.