Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2016-11-01T12:53:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 João William Gauze Júnior_.pdf: 7665753 bytes, checksum: 1f65464f7f81b328aae56c2d02d74445 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-01T12:53:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 João William Gauze Júnior_.pdf: 7665753 bytes, checksum: 1f65464f7f81b328aae56c2d02d74445 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-29 / Nenhuma / Programas de melhoria contínua são realizados constantemente nas organizações. Na área da saúde, o Lean Healthcare apresenta-se como uma abordagem que vem ganhando espaço na melhoria de processos, visando eliminar desperdícios, reduzir custos e melhorar a produtividade para a melhor assistência ao paciente. Este estudo apresenta ações de melhoria realizadas com base nos princípios e técnicas de Lean Healthcare nos processos desenvolvidos pela Central de Abastecimento Farmacêutico (CAF) de um hospital brasileiro de referência, identificando as perdas existentes no processo e propondo ações para mitigá-las. A pesquisa-ação realizada propôs soluções para os problemas identificados nos fluxos da CAF, com coparticipação ativa do pesquisador e dos colaboradores da área. Usando mapeamento do fluxo de valor, mecanismo da função produção e conceitos de perdas do Lean, foi possível identificar as perdas existentes no processo. E com a utilização de 5 S, Kanban e eliminação de atividades que não agregavam valor aos processos estas perdas foram mitigadas. Os principais resultados foram a redução de estoque de, em média, 46% do número de unidades nas Unidades de Internação e a eliminação de 97 dias de trabalho ao ano de um colaborador com atividades de retrabalho durante a etiquetagem de materiais e medicamentos. / Continuous Improvement Programs are constantly carried out in organizations. In the health sector, the Lean Healthcare is presented as a subject that is gaining importance in the area of process improvement, to eliminate waste, reduce costs and improve productivity for better patient care. This study promotes improvement actions based on the principles and techniques of Lean Healthcare in the processes of a Pharmaceutical Supply Center (CAF) of a Brazilian reference hospital, identifying the existing losses in the process and proposing actions to mitigate them. The action research proposed solutions to the problems identified in the flows of CAF, with active co-participation of the researcher and field employees. Using value stream mapping, mechanism of the production function and concepts of Lean wastes, it was possible to identify existing losses in the process. And with the implementation of 5 S, Kanban and eliminating activities that do not add value to the processes these wastes were mitigated. The main results were inventory reduction, on average, 46% of the number of units in inpatient units and the elimination of 97 working days per year of an employee excluding rework activities during labeling materials and medicines.

Smart grid has been described as the Energy Internet: Where Energy Technology meets Information Technology. The incorporation of such technology into vast existing utility infrastructures offers many advantages, including possibilities for new smart appliances, energy management systems, better integration of renewable energy, value added services, and new business models, both for supply- and demand-side management. Smart grid also replaces aging utility technologies that are becoming increasingly unreliable, as the average ages for many critical components in utility systems now exceed their original design lives. However, while smart grid offers the promise of revolutionizing utility delivery systems, many questions remain about how such systems can be rolled out at the state, regional, and national levels. Many unique regulatory and market structure challenges exist, which makes it critical to pick the right technology for the right situation and to employ it in the right manner. Technology Roadmapping may be a valuable approach for helping to understand factors that could affect smart grid technology and product development, as well as key business, policy and regulatory drivers. As emerging smart grid technologies are developed and the fledgling industry matures, a critical issue will be understanding how the combination of industry drivers impact one another, what barriers exist to achieving the benefits of smart grid technologies, and how to prioritize R&D and acquisition efforts. Since the planning of power grids often relies on regional factors, it will also be important investigate linkages between smart grid deployment and regional planning goals. This can be used to develop strategies for overcoming barriers and achieving the benefits of this promising new technology. This research builds upon existing roadmapping processes by considering an integrated set of factors, including policy issues, which are specifically tuned to the needs of smart grids and have not generally been considered in other types of roadmapping efforts. It will also incorporate expert judgment quantification to prioritize factors, show the pathways for overcoming barriers and achieving benefits, and discussing the most promising strategies for achieving these goals.

Nowadays global companies view the world as a single entity, sourcing materials fromanywhere and performing operations to create the optimal supply chain for their products.This leads to an increasing complexity which is driving supply management to becomea core capability of businesses. As supply chains are inherently vulnerable to disturbances,supply management will have to play a key role in the field of risk analysisand risk management. An increased awareness of sources of disturbances is essential tocreate significant improvements in the handling and prevention of disturbances.The purpose of this thesis is to identify and classify sources of disturbance which canhave a negative influence on a company’s supply management. This is achieved by theinvestigation of theories available in literature, as well as identifying and analyzing thedisturbances in the supply management of an international manufacturing company.Additionally, the theories on disturbance management are reviewed to create a foundationfor managerial implications.The company studied is Husqvarna, which currently is in a situation with several disturbancesin its supply management. The performed case study aims at both, describingthese phenomena, as well as testing of the theories. The chosen qualitative approachmakes it possible to gain in-depth knowledge and investigate different aspects ofsources of disturbances in this case study. The interviews performed are standardizedopen ended questionnaires in order to get in-depth knowledge of the situation.The empirical findings are then analyzed in regard to the purpose of the thesis. The goalof this analysis is to compare the sources of disturbances of the classification schemecreated in the literature review to the respondents’ answers from the interviews. Moreover,inputs and opinions from the respondents on how to manage disturbances are connectedwith the theories provided in the literature review within this field.Various sources of disturbance with a negative influence on the supply management ofcompanies are identified. It was also possible to compare the classification schemewhich was created based on the theoretical findings with the finding of the case study ofHusqvarna. Consequently a holistic overview of potential and actual sources of disturbancein supply management has been created. Furthermore, it is possible to contribute tothe body of knowledge on how to manage disturbances in supply management. Theprovided insights highlight implications that can help companies to successfully managedisturbances and hence improve their performance.

The challenge of water provision in third world cities is to maintain the supply in the context of inadequate and inefficient piped water infrastructure and diminishing raw resources. In order to examine the role of governance in this, I utilize a range of theoretical positions: the welfare orientation, rational choice paradigm, common goods theory and regime theory, and present them as ways to explore the subjective dimension of water provision. Using the city of Jakarta, Indonesia as a case study, this dissertation explores the issues using different perspectives on a single principal focus, the roles of the government and its relations to non-governmental actors. This research used data from secondary materials such as management reports, policy and academic reports, and scientific studies. The major source of primary data were interviews conducted with about 40 key actors. Qualitative analysis used a system of information coding and triangulation. The conclusion reached is that the approach to managing clean water provision needs to be redefined in relation to the water management regimes found in situated research. In Jakarta, one may define three regimes: piped water, surface and shallow groundwater, and deep groundwater. Accessing water from greater urban watershed, treatment plants and a "manufacturing process" results in the delivery of a product. Such a system reduces the possibility of the tragedy of the commons, that is, the over-extraction of groundwater by individuals. But a more inclusive and enforced regulatory system must be established for groundwater, as it remains a needed source of supply. Local and low-technology solutions, international agency assistance, the policies of privatization and decentralization, and better land use planning, all hold out the promise of movement towards a solution. But, as the case study demonstrates, success has so far been mixed. Many options do not address water scarcity at the city level and problems of inequitable service. It is only the prospect government reform towards a better allocation of roles, new management ideas and greater co-operation within and among the water regimes that will lead to better provision of clean water.

In this work designs information system of the feeding establishment not only for organization personnel but for clients use too. This system must help to fulfill crack in similar information systems market, because compared products are created to help and accelerate personnel work, but do not give opportunity for client to take decision himself, and to reduce his meal time too. Problem of not effective client food supply service becomes more actual. Client is rushed to waste away his time. The work goal is to modernize Information System of Food supply management and solve client time wasting problem. This work consists of analysis, designing and realization parts. In the first part are set analysis of environment and users, overlooked occasionally way taked alike information systems, and set, that these systems do not have client’s module. System’s architecture and realization tools are picked. Set information system opportunities, merits, requirements and elements of risk. Designing and realization part shows structure and realization of the client’s service information system. It designed with UML methodology help. For the system realization chosen PHP programming language and MySQL data basis. Created and tested prototype version of designed new system.

Applying the concept of comparative advantage in the allocation of production has been required but ignored in Canadian supply-managed agriculture. There seems to be a lack of consensus among economists on how comparative advantage is to be observed and applied in this context. It is also not clear whether the recent changes in the environmental pressures from agriculture across Canada might have contributed to changes in the patterns of comparative advantage in primary dairy production. Linking the concept of individual comparative advantage with the concept of the market as an information discovery process through comprehensive microeconomic general equilibrium modeling, deductive reasoning, and statistical analysis of recent industry data has shown (1) that changes in individual comparative advantage in supply-managed industries are expressed through quota exchange and revealed through quota prices, and (2) that environmental externalities may change the patterns of comparative advantage. The current provincial quota prices, as the appropriate indicators of comparative advantage, suggest that more quota should be allocated to British Columbia and Alberta. / Canadian Dairy Commission, Toronto Milk Producers, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

This thesis is a case study of the impact of culture on the management of water resources and the conflict over their usage by opposing riparian entities in the Jordan River Basin. It provides an overview of the historical background to the resource conflict in the area and continues on to examine the development of management institutions. In particular, it examines the impact of Islamic law on the development of water laws and management, paying particular attention to the affect of Islamic law on water usage in Jordan and how in turn this affect is seen in its relations with neighboring states. Its purpose is to create an understanding, through cultural awareness, of the reasons behind the actions of particular states in reference to the cultural differences affecting their actions.

<p>The aim of this investigation was to provide a framework or strategy for prioritising and implementing regional groundwater monitoring in the Olifants-Doorn Water Management (WMA) area. The general approach was to attempt to reconcile monitoring requirements with existing resources, while investigating the hypothesis that regional monitoring should focus on resource status monitoring. Groundwater science needs to focus on clarifying the sustainability options available to the stakeholders, and monitoring the chosen option. This can best be done by adopting an adaptive management approach to both the management of the groundwater resources, and the management of the monitoring programme.</p>

Bibliography: leaves 414-427. / xx, 427 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1995?

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:51:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissTPB.pdf: 1324019 bytes, checksum: 501c39db9baca124ad19a1bca5fd5228 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-02-24 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / The importance of supply management for the automotive assemblers is justified by the contribution to the success of their business strategies, since more efficient supply operations would guarantee the profitability of these companies. Such operations are based in the supply of parts and components with the wanted quality, in the requested amount, in the stipulated period and at competitive costs. This work intended to study the way as two assemblers of Brazilian automotive industry are managing their respective supply bases, identifying the peculiar characteristics of supply management strategies and the way as these companies coordinate the relationships with their suppliers and influence the actions taken by them. For this, firstly a bibliographical research was accomplished to base the elaboration of a theoretical reference to developing a knowledge both of the theme and of the studied industry, besides establishing a conceptual structure used in the field research, which was composed by exploratory and qualitative case studies, accomplished in each analyzed company. After the description of the individual case studies, the obtained results were crossed and compared in order to identify similarities and differences among the companies. It was verified that the eastern assembler studied is more involved with the supply management activities in comparison with the western assembler, consolidated in Brazilian automobile industry. This perception results of its largest influence and participation about the operations of its suppliers, direct or indirect, by assuming the control of acquisition activities in the supply chain and to worry with their profitability. The western assembler, however, just maintain a larger involvement with its direct suppliers, besides not developing politics able to guarantee their operational profitability. / A importância da gestão de suprimentos para as empresas montadoras pertencentes à indústria automobilística deve-se a sua contribuição para o êxito de suas estratégias de negócio, já que operações de fornecimento mais eficientes garantiriam a lucratividade destas empresas. Tais operações se fundamentam no suprimento de peças e componentes com a qualidade desejada, na quantidade requerida, no prazo estipulado e a custos competitivos. Este trabalho propôs-se a estudar o modo como duas empresas montadoras pertencentes ao setor automotivo brasileiro gerenciam suas respectivas bases de fornecimento, identificando as características peculiares dos modelos de gestão adotados e o modo como estas empresas coordenam os relacionamentos com seus fornecedores e influenciam as ações tomadas por eles. Para o cumprimento desse objetivo, primeiramente foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica capaz de fundamentar a elaboração de um referencial teórico com o intuito de desenvolver um conhecimento aprofundado do tema e do setor industrial estudado e também de estabelecer uma estrutura conceitual voltada à pesquisa de campo, a qual foi composta por estudos de caso de caráter exploratório e qualitativo realizados em cada uma das empresas analisadas. Após a descrição dos estudos de caso individuais, foi feito um cruzamento dos resultados obtidos, os quais foram comparados a fim de identificar similaridades e diferenças entre as empresas. Constatou-se que, entre as montadoras estudadas, aquela de origem oriental estudada se mostra mais envolvida com as atividades referentes à gestão de suprimentos em comparação à montadora ocidental já consolidada na indústria automobilística brasileira. Tal percepção resulta de sua maior influência e participação sobre as operações de seus fornecedores, sejam eles diretos ou indiretos, ao assumir o controle das atividades de aquisição na cadeia e se preocupar com a lucratividade destes. A montadora ocidental, ao contrário, limita-se a manter um maior envolvimento apenas com seus fornecedores diretos, além de não desenvolver políticas voltadas para a garantia de lucratividade operacional deles.