1.
INTRODUCTION
With the purpose of optimizing the costs and to improve the
profitability of the productive processes, the denominated organizations of World Class category (Mackenzie, 1997), dedicate enormous efforts to visualize, analyze, implant and...
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1.
INTRODUCTION
With the purpose of optimizing the costs and to improve the
profitability of the productive processes, the denominated organizations of World Class category (Mackenzie, 1997), dedicate enormous efforts to visualize, analyze, implant and execute
strategies for the solution of problems, that involve decisions in
high impact areas: security, environment, production goals,
products quality, operation costs and maintenance.
In the last
years, specialists in the areas of value engineering and operations direction have improved the quantification process of the
costs, including the use of techniques that quantify the Reliability factor and the impact of the failure events on the total costs
of a production system along their life cycle (Woodhouse,
1993).
These improvements have allowed diminishing the uncertainty in the process of decisions making in vital importance
areas such as: design, development, maintenance, substitution
and acquisition of production assets.
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