This thesis questions the relation between political program and architectural production via a close examination of the modern myth: democratization through design. This idea is rooted in the 19th century arts and crafts movement, which indirectly caused the foundation of a very influential design school, the Bauhaus, where the idea of democratization of design has been invented. Years later, the slogan reappeared and became more visible than ever. This time it was IKEA, a furniture company that also promotes the idea of &lsquo / democratization through design&rsquo / with references to Bauhaus announcing the democratic design utopia is back. The survey of the study is based on four main principles that are developed at Bauhaus and later reinvented by IKEA. These principles, namely, mass production, standardization, modularization, and claim of universality characterize the modernist project of instrumentalizing mass production for social benefits.

Standardization is Organizing and showcasing a manufacturing firm’s product or potentially benefits abroad are confronted with the choice of whether to institutionalize or adjust their product variants which simply means “one size fits all” method (Lundeteg, 2012). As industrial revolution was in peak many manufacturing industries around the world moved from mass production to mass customization. As per then, customers need was to gain a desirable product even if the lead time was higher than of buying a common product which everyone has.Main aim of the study is to re implement mass production in a firm where mass customization was adopted decades ago. As there are two categories of customers supporting both customized production and mass production, they need to adopt an innovative way without losing both types of customers. This report consist of the ways standardized production was done in the case company without affecting both types of customers and by decreasing lead time which was their main problem. The report consist detailed description of methods adopted for analyzing and how standardized production is effectively incorporated with customized production. Report also consist of quantitative data and qualitative literature support for analyzing and creating simulation model.Case study was also aiming at production systems in the company to understand the productions in deeper manner and how the new system could be effectively implemented in current situation. New proposal for standardized production was done based on the detailed study of factory layout and the products were proposed after detailed analysis of the quantitative data. Study was mainly concentrated on quantitative sales data analysis as the production is done base on make to stock and the customization is just done in cutting section. Analysis and simulation model creation was done in excel as the internal documents were done in excel and complex operations also is possible in excel.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:36:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Celia Maria Ribeiro1.pdf: 835852 bytes, checksum: 4cd5e5a31bf804350b6f27a925078e39 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-09 / This work focuses on the new trends of academic publications, thesis and dissertations, aiming at identifying what is influencing its standardization. It analyses tools such as norms and guides, offered to students in order to prepare their works, and also the role of librarians in this environment. To understand the behavior of scientists it was made a qualitative research through interviews, that were recorded. The answers were arranged in categories in order to apply content analysis method to get the results. It was observed that demands are changing in face of the academic evaluation criteria which lead researchers to use patterns of international scientific journals, instead of national standards of academic publication. / An?lise das tend?ncias da produ??o acad?mica gerada nos programas de p?s-gradua??o stricto sensu tendo como objeto de estudo as teses e disserta??es. Identifica tamb?m as ferramentas de orienta??o dispon?veis para os alunos desenvolverem seus trabalhos com mais autonomia, e apresenta reflex?es sobre o papel do profissional da informa??o neste ambiente. Por meio de uma an?lise qualitativa, atrav?s de entrevistas com os sujeitos envolvidos no processo de produ??o e comunica??o da ci?ncia, identifica-se que os mesmos tiveram que mudar seus h?bitos e atitudes diante dos crit?rios estabelecidos para contagem de produ??o e distribui??o de recursos para a pesquisa. A necessidade de publicar em diversas revistas cient?ficas leva os pesquisadores a adotarem os padr?es destas revistas em seus trabalhos, em detrimento de normas nacionais. As conclus?es mostram que o bibliotec?rio continua se adaptando ?s novas demandas, e nesse caso, participando mais ativamente dos processos de gera??o da informa??o cient?fica, no entanto sua presen?a junto ?s ag?ncias nacionais de normaliza??o precisa ser mais atuante.