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Integrating Reverse Engineering and Design for Manufacturing
and Assembly in Products Redesigns: Results of Two Action Research Studies in Brazil 189
Fig. 2. Publications by keywords between 1980 and 2009
From this main objective on, it is established a secondary objective, to analyze the results
from the application of the cited model to reduce production/assembling time, as well as
the manufacturing/assembling costs on the redesign of products from the reverse
engineering.
The employed research method was the action-research. According to Thiollent (2007) an
action-research is a kind of an empirically social research, designed and carried out in close
association with an action or with solving a collective problem, in which the researches and
participants, representatives of the situation or the problem are involved in a cooperative
and participatory way.
This chapter is structured as follows: section 2 presents initially a theoretical framework on
the subject studied, followed by section 3 which describes the research method employed.
Section 4 analyzes and discusses the results and, finally, section 5 presents the conclusions
of the research.
2. Literature review
2.1 Product development process
According to Toledo et al. (2008), the product development process (PDP) is considered,
increasingly, a critical process to the competitiveness of companies, with a view to a general
need for frequent renewal of product lines, costs and development schedules, a more
responsive product development to market needs and to companies participating in
supplying chain of components and systems, training strategies to participate in joint
development (co-design) with customers.