O gerenciamento de projetos tem sido utilizado pelas organizações como ferramenta para estruturar, organizar e aprimorar suas práticas, bem como para alinhar projetos aos seus objetivos estratégicos. Por sua vez, gerir projetos de design significa planejar a gestão do desenvolvimento de novos produtos e deve envolver conhecimentos sobre gestão, assim como das atividades do design. Com foco no setor industrial, o presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar a gestão de projetos de design na indústria moveleira no Vale do Taquari, segmento produtivo que tem relevante destaque na indústria de transformação nacional. O estudo baseia-se na proposição de Borja de Mozota, que considera que a gestão do design está inserida nos três níveis organizacionais: operacional, tático e estratégico. Utiliza, também, modelos de maturidade em gestão de projetos como evidência para análise adicional da pesquisa, uma vez que pretende verificar como as empresas estudadas lidam com a gestão de projetos. Para o desenvolvimento deste trabalho, realizou-se uma pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa, caracterizada como um estudo de casos, cuja coleta de dados ocorreu em visitas e entrevistas com gestores de duas indústrias de móveis. A relação da gestão de projetos de design e a análise do nível de maturidade em gestão de projetos possibilitaram a identificação de pontos fortes e oportunidades de melhoria das empresas estudadas. Infere-se, nesse sentido, que empresas que conhecem, planejam, gerenciam e controlam seus processos e o desenvolvimento de seus produtos estão, em geral, mais preparadas para a competitividade e a inovação. O resultado deste estudo mostrou que, mesmo sem uma sistematização e conhecimento dos conceitos, as empresas pesquisadas tratam da questão da gestão de projetos de design nos seus níveis organizacionais. / Project management has been used by organizations as a tool to structure, organize and improve their practices as well as projects to align their strategic objectives. In turn, managing design projects, means planning the management of new product development and management should involve knowledge of how the activities of design. Focusing on the industrial sector, this study aims to examine the management of design projects in the furniture industry in Vale do Taquari, a productive segment that has significant prominence in the national process industry. The study was based on the proposition of Borja de Mozota, whereby the design management is inserted in the three organizational levels: operational, tactical and strategic. It is intended to apply also maturity models of project management as further evidence of the research. To develop this work, a research of qualitative study, characterized as a study of cases, whose data was collected in personal interviews with managers from two furniture manufacturers. The relation of project management design and analysis of the level of maturity in project management has enabled the identification of substantial points and improvement opportunities within the companies studied. It is inferred, in this sense, that companies that know, plan, manage and control their processes and the development of their products are, generally more prepared for competition and innovation. The result of this study has showed that, even without a systematization and knowledge of the concepts, the researched companies deal with the issue of management of design projects in their organizational levels.

Este trabalho busca entender como o usuário final foi abordado durante o processo de desenvolvimento de produto (PDP) em uma empresa de carrocerias de ônibus, para tanto foi realizada uma análise deste processo. Tanto na teoria do Design como na da Administração estudada, o usuário deve ser um dos fatores principais na concepção do produto e da oportunidade de mercado, dado que, geralmente, as empresas de carrocerias de ônibus não abordavam diretamente as necessidades do usuário em seus PDP, conforme mostra a bibliografia. O estudo de caso foi realizado sobre o projeto de um ônibus rodoviário e no PDP identificado, no qual o usuário final teve suas necessidades identificadas por pesquisa de mercado realizada pela própria empresa. Como resultado houve uma nova configuração do espaço interior do veículo, demonstrando que o projeto anterior, que não possuía atributos desenvolvidos com foco nas necessidades, estava provavelmente em dissonância com o usuário final. O estudo também demonstra que a estrutura e a política interna da empresa têm influência no resultado do projeto de design. / This dissertation analyzes the product development process (PDP) of a coach bodybuilder to understand how the End User has been addressed during this process, given the fact that the design and administration studied theories addresses that the User must be a major factor to assign the product and market opportunity. However, the literature review also indicated that, usually, companies such as Brazilian coach bodybuilder did not address directly the user’s needs. The case study was conducted on the design of a touring coach and the PDP identified End User needs by means of a market research conducted by the company. As a result there was a new configuration of the interior space, showing that the previous model, which did not possess attributes focused on the user’s needs, was probably at odds with the End User. The study also shows that the corporate structure and internal politics influence the outcome of the project design.

O gerenciamento de projetos tem sido utilizado pelas organizações como ferramenta para estruturar, organizar e aprimorar suas práticas, bem como para alinhar projetos aos seus objetivos estratégicos. Por sua vez, gerir projetos de design significa planejar a gestão do desenvolvimento de novos produtos e deve envolver conhecimentos sobre gestão, assim como das atividades do design. Com foco no setor industrial, o presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar a gestão de projetos de design na indústria moveleira no Vale do Taquari, segmento produtivo que tem relevante destaque na indústria de transformação nacional. O estudo baseia-se na proposição de Borja de Mozota, que considera que a gestão do design está inserida nos três níveis organizacionais: operacional, tático e estratégico. Utiliza, também, modelos de maturidade em gestão de projetos como evidência para análise adicional da pesquisa, uma vez que pretende verificar como as empresas estudadas lidam com a gestão de projetos. Para o desenvolvimento deste trabalho, realizou-se uma pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa, caracterizada como um estudo de casos, cuja coleta de dados ocorreu em visitas e entrevistas com gestores de duas indústrias de móveis. A relação da gestão de projetos de design e a análise do nível de maturidade em gestão de projetos possibilitaram a identificação de pontos fortes e oportunidades de melhoria das empresas estudadas. Infere-se, nesse sentido, que empresas que conhecem, planejam, gerenciam e controlam seus processos e o desenvolvimento de seus produtos estão, em geral, mais preparadas para a competitividade e a inovação. O resultado deste estudo mostrou que, mesmo sem uma sistematização e conhecimento dos conceitos, as empresas pesquisadas tratam da questão da gestão de projetos de design nos seus níveis organizacionais. / Project management has been used by organizations as a tool to structure, organize and improve their practices as well as projects to align their strategic objectives. In turn, managing design projects, means planning the management of new product development and management should involve knowledge of how the activities of design. Focusing on the industrial sector, this study aims to examine the management of design projects in the furniture industry in Vale do Taquari, a productive segment that has significant prominence in the national process industry. The study was based on the proposition of Borja de Mozota, whereby the design management is inserted in the three organizational levels: operational, tactical and strategic. It is intended to apply also maturity models of project management as further evidence of the research. To develop this work, a research of qualitative study, characterized as a study of cases, whose data was collected in personal interviews with managers from two furniture manufacturers. The relation of project management design and analysis of the level of maturity in project management has enabled the identification of substantial points and improvement opportunities within the companies studied. It is inferred, in this sense, that companies that know, plan, manage and control their processes and the development of their products are, generally more prepared for competition and innovation. The result of this study has showed that, even without a systematization and knowledge of the concepts, the researched companies deal with the issue of management of design projects in their organizational levels.

Este trabalho busca entender como o usuário final foi abordado durante o processo de desenvolvimento de produto (PDP) em uma empresa de carrocerias de ônibus, para tanto foi realizada uma análise deste processo. Tanto na teoria do Design como na da Administração estudada, o usuário deve ser um dos fatores principais na concepção do produto e da oportunidade de mercado, dado que, geralmente, as empresas de carrocerias de ônibus não abordavam diretamente as necessidades do usuário em seus PDP, conforme mostra a bibliografia. O estudo de caso foi realizado sobre o projeto de um ônibus rodoviário e no PDP identificado, no qual o usuário final teve suas necessidades identificadas por pesquisa de mercado realizada pela própria empresa. Como resultado houve uma nova configuração do espaço interior do veículo, demonstrando que o projeto anterior, que não possuía atributos desenvolvidos com foco nas necessidades, estava provavelmente em dissonância com o usuário final. O estudo também demonstra que a estrutura e a política interna da empresa têm influência no resultado do projeto de design. / This dissertation analyzes the product development process (PDP) of a coach bodybuilder to understand how the End User has been addressed during this process, given the fact that the design and administration studied theories addresses that the User must be a major factor to assign the product and market opportunity. However, the literature review also indicated that, usually, companies such as Brazilian coach bodybuilder did not address directly the user’s needs. The case study was conducted on the design of a touring coach and the PDP identified End User needs by means of a market research conducted by the company. As a result there was a new configuration of the interior space, showing that the previous model, which did not possess attributes focused on the user’s needs, was probably at odds with the End User. The study also shows that the corporate structure and internal politics influence the outcome of the project design.

For many years batteries have been used as the main power sources for portable electronic devices. However, the rate of scaling in integrated circuits and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) has been much higher than that of the batteries technology. Therefore, a need to replace these temporary energy reservoirs with small sized continuously charged energy supply units has emerged. These units, named as energy harvesters, use several types of ambient energy sources such as heat, light, and vibration to provide energy to intelligent systems such as sensor nodes. Among the available types, vibration based electromagnetic (EM) energy harvesters are particularly interesting because of their simple structure and suitability for operation at low frequency values (&lt / 10 Hz), where most vibrations exits. However, since the generated EM power and voltage is relatively low at low frequencies, high performance interface electronics is required for efficiently transferring the generated power from the harvester to the load to be supplied. The aim of this study is to design low power and efficient interface electronics to convert the low voltage and low power generated signals of the EM energy harvesters to DC to be usable by a real application. The most critical part of such interface electronics is the AC/DC converter, since all the other blocks such as DC/DC converters, power managements units, etc. rely on the rectified voltage generated by this block. Due to this, several state-of-the-art rectifier structures suitable for energy harvesting applications have been studied. Most of the previously proposed rectifiers have low conversion efficiency due to the high voltage drop across the utilized diodes. In this study, two rectifier structures are proposed: one is a new passive rectifier using the Boot Strapping technique for reducing the diode turn-on voltage values / the other structure is a comparator-based ultra low power active rectifier. The proposed structures and some of the previously reported designs have been implemented in X-FAB 0.35 &micro / m standard CMOS process. The autonomous energy harvesting systems are then realized by integrating the developed ASICs and the previously proposed EM energy harvester modules developed in our research group, and these systems have been characterized under different electromechanical excitation conditions. In this thesis, five different systems utilizing different circuits and energy harvesting modules have been presented. Among these, the system utilizing the novel Boot Strap Rectifier is implemented within a volume of 21 cm3, and delivers 1.6 V, 80 &micro / A (128 &micro / W) DC power to a load at a vibration frequency of only 2 Hz and 72 mg peak acceleration. The maximum overall power density of the system operating at 2 Hz is 6.1 &micro / W/cm3, which is the highest reported value in the literature at this operation frequency. Also, the operation of a commercially available temperature sensor using the provided power of the energy harvester has been shown. Another system utilizing the comparator-based active rectifier implemented with a volume of 16 cm3, has a dual rail output and is able to drive a 1.46 V, 37 &micro / A load with a maximum power density of 6.03 &micro / W/cm3, operating at 8 Hz. Furthermore, a signal conditioning system for EM energy harvesting has also been designed and simulated in TSMC 90 nm CMOS process. The proposed ASIC includes a highly efficient AC-DC converter as well as a power processing unit which steps up and regulates the converted DC voltages using an on-chip DC/DC converter and a sub-threshold voltage regulator with an ultra low power management unit. The total power consumption on the totally passive IC is less than 5 &micro / W, which makes it suitable for next generation MEMS-based EM energy harvesters. In the frame of this study, high efficiency CMOS rectifier ICs have been designed and tested together with several vibration based EM energy harvester modules. The results show that the best efficiency and power density values have been achieved with the proposed energy harvesting systems, within the low frequency range, to the best of our knowledge. It is also shown that further improvement of the results is possible with the utilization of a more advanced CMOS technology.

The diploma thesis focuses on creating a business plan for constructing and operating nature trails and a pension with associated activities. The pension is going to offer a comfort accommodation, a program for a bad weather, social and sport activities in an attractive tourist and nature area of the Kralický Sněžník close to popular skiing center.

Det finns ett stort intresse för hur styrningen av de svenska myndigheterna är utformad och hur den påverkar deras medarbetare. De svenska myndigheterna anses i världen vara välfungerande och har som offentlig verksamhet många utmaningar inför utformningen av styrningen. Försäkringskassan är en svensk myndighet som en stor del av Sveriges befolkning kommer i kontakt med. Den här studien har som avsikt att visa hur styrningen kan vara utformad på lokal nivå. Vi har gjort en fallstudie på Försäkringskassan i Luleå baserad på möjliggörande och tvingande styrning. Vi upptäcker att Försäkringskassan har inslag av både möjliggörande och tvingande styrning. Handläggare styrs av kvantitativa mått, men ges även möjlighet både att påverka hur styrningen är utformad samt att få insyn i hur styrningen är framarbetad. Handläggarna känner även i viss utsträckning att ett fokus ligger på de kvantitativa måtten och att de i huvudsak förväntas hinna med att utföra ett visst antal ärenden per dag. / There is a great deal of interest in how the management of the Swedish public sector works and how it affects its employees. The Swedish public sector is considered well-functioning in the world and, as public sector, it has many challenges in the design of management system. Försäkringskassan is a Swedish authority that a large part of Sweden’s populations comes into contact with. This study aims to show how the management control can work on a local level. We have conducted a case study on Försäkringskassan in Luleå based on enabling and coercive control. We find that Försäkringskassan has elements of both enabling and coercive control. Case workers are guided by quantitative measures, but they are also given the opportunity to influence how the control system is designed as well as to gain insight into how the control system is designed and why. The case workers also feel to some extent that the focus is in the quantitative measurements and that they are largely expected to do a certain number of cases per day.

Les systèmes embarqués sur puce (SoC) envahissent notre vie quotidienne. Avec les progrès technologiques, ils intègrent de plus en plus de fonctionnalités complexes impliquant des charges de calcul et des tailles de mémoire importantes. Alors que leur complexité est une tendance clé, la consommation d’énergie est aussi devenue un facteur critique pour la conception de SoC. Dans ce contexte, nous avons étudié une approche de modélisation au niveau transactionnel qui associe à un modèle fonctionnel SystemC-TLM une description d’une structure de gestion d’un arbre d’horloge décrit au même niveau d’abstraction. Cette structure développée dans une approche de séparation des préoccupations fournit à la fois l’interface pour la gestion de puissance des composants matériels et pour le logiciel applicatif. L’ensemble des modèles développés est rassemblé dans une librairie ClkARCH. Pour appliquer à un modèle fonctionnel un modèle d’un arbre d’horloge, nous proposons une méthodologie en trois étapes : spécification, modélisation et simulation. Une étape de vérification en simulation est aussi considérée basée sur des contrats de type assertion. De plus, nos travaux visent à être compatibles avec des outils de conception actuels. Nous avons proposé une représentation d’une structure de gestion d’horloge et de puissance dans le standard IP-XACT permettant de produire les descriptions C++ des structures de gestion de puissance du SoC. Enfin, nous avons proposé une approche de gestion de puissance basée sur l’observation globale des états fonctionnels du système dans le but d’éviter ainsi des prises de décisions locales peu efficaces à une optimisation de l’énergie. / Embedded systems-on-chip (SoC) invade our daily life. With advances in semiconductor technology, these systems integrate more and more complex and energy-intensive features which generate increasing computation load and memory size requirements. While the complexity of these systems is a key trend, energy consumption has emerged as a critical factor for SoC designers. In this context, we have studied a modeling transactional level approach allowing a description of a clock tree and its management structure to be associated with a functional model, both described at the same abstraction level. This structure developed in a separation of concerns approach provides both the interface to the power consumption management of the hardware components and the application software. All the models developed are gathered in a C++ ClkArch library. To apply to a SystemC-TLM architecture model a clock tree intent with its control part, we propose a methodology based on three steps: specification, modeling and simulation. A verification step based on simulation is also considered using contracts of assertion type. This work aims to build a modelling approach on current design tools. So we propose a representation of a clock and power management structure in the IP-XACT standard allowing a C++ description of the SoC power management structures to be generated. Finally, a power management strategy based on the global functional states of the components of the system architecture is proposed. This strategy avoids local decision-making unsuited to optimized overall power/energy management.

The purpose of this project is to design, build, and implement a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system for a bank. CRM BANKING is an online application that caters to strengthening and stabilizing customer relationships in a bank.

This thesis suggests implementation of human resources management system to manage project portfolio in small organizations. Main gist is implementation and demonstration of the system, that is able to assign human resources to planned projects. The thesis also provides basic theory of projects and human resources management in projects. Based on this theory the system is analysed, designed and implemented.