Desenvolvimento de projetos de engenharia de meios navais: uma abordagem sob a perspectiva da gestão do conhecimento

Abstract

The “Tamandaré” Class Program has as some of its basis the knowledge management and the consequent technology transfer creating a new paradigm of maintenance and knowledge evolution for the Brazilian Navy. The technical knowledge transfer and expertise will be included in the process, ensuring the Navy broad access and right of use, in the form of a general license to use know how and know why. Ships are defined as complex systems both in organizational terms for their development and in terms of the product itself. This fact means that the project teams have several people involved in the development of the platform project for a long time. Regarding the ship design development process, sought to have an overview of the models proposed by the literature and to explore the design spiral model widely used in engineering design offices in the shipbuilding industry, an idealized scenario for the application of concepts developed by this theme. The approach to knowledge management concepts is dedicated to demonstrating the fundamentals of the types of tacit and explicit knowledge, as well as identifying the complementarity between them, identifying tools that are intended to help organizations to evaluate knowledge assets implicit in their activities, storing them when possible, maintain, disseminate, apply and increase them. Knowledge is something intangible, which resides in the minds of people and has been of interest to us for a long time. Knowledge management can be characterized as the systematic process of appropriation, creation, organization, sharing and the transfer of knowledge to people who need it in organizations. The main knowledge management practices were presented, mainly related to aspects of human resource management that facilitate the transfer, dissemination and sharing of information and knowledge and linked primarily to the structuring of organizational processes that function as facilitators of generation, retention, organization and dissemination of organizational knowledge. Finally, an analysis was carried out of a military organization that participates in engineering projects from the perspective of knowledge management. Military organizations have a vertical hierarchical structure that somewhat hinders the flow of information and knowledge, several knowledge management initiatives that could be identified be deployed in military organizations that will participate in the knowledge and technology transfer process. Without any doubt, the search for knowledge and the development of own capacity for ship design and construction are fundamental for the Brazilian Navy to consolidate its competence in this area of knowledge.