Ferramenta para mensuração da capacidade tecnológica no segmento de construção de edifícios

Abstract

Technological innovation is essential to enhance the performance of industrial organizations with a view to acquiring competitive advantage, as it adds improvements in products, processes and services. Currently, Industry 4.0 is the most modern synthesis of the accumulation of innovations, representing a new era of industrial production. Despite its importance, civil construction is not yet fully inserted in this new industrial context, especially when considering underdeveloped countries. The building construction subsector, for example, is predominantly characterized by a low technological level when compared to other industries. In this sense, it is extremely important to develop studies that establish an understanding of the aspects that lead to this scenario of low technological level in civil construction. Therefore, this work was based on the theory of accumulation of technological capabilities to develop a tool, called in this work FMCTEED (Tool for Measuring Technological Capability in Building Companies), aiming to trace the technological profile of building construction companies and understand the aspects that need to be enhanced in these organizations to overcome the technological backwardness. This dissertation used bibliographic research, interviews with experts and mathematical modeling as a methodology to build a tool capable of expressing the accumulation of technological capacity in companies in the buildings subsector. In a second step, the model was applied to companies in the buildings subsector to analyze the performance of the tool. As a result, the study showed that the companies object of the study practically do not have ST&I development mechanisms; in addition, the survey revealed a huge gap in industrialization and robotization of processes; there was also a weakness in terms of a collaborative network that includes universities and research centers for the production of technologies that can be incorporated into the production process. Finally, it can be said that FMCTEED was successful in establishing the technological profile of the companies studied and in listing critical points for intervention with a view, for example, to the implementation of innovations.