The item response theory (IRT) was first applied in Brazil in 1995, in education and, since then, it has been used in several studies in Production Engineering. This study, with a quantitative approach, compared to the same latent scale the maturity of 177 companies from Ceará, from 18 production chains based on the deployment ability of 46 best practices in management. This study aimed to establish the Cearense benchmark chain, ranking companies in order of maturity and management practices with greater difficulties to be fully applied. Among the results, it can be highlighted the productive chains benchmark: food, metal mechanic, automotive and export; items with greater deployment of difficulty: standardization units targeted to the final consumer, integration with logistics and automation service providers, like robots. The model proved to be a suitable tool for comparative analysis of supply chains.
This paper aims at presenting a new flexible benchmarking model in civil construction. It describes an explanatory case study whereby data are collected through an internet benchmarking system with multi-criteria performance. This case study was based on the Production Arrangements Monitoring and Benchmarking System (SIMAP), the authors describe a flexible benchmarking model considering 46 criteria classified into 7 subsystems. The proposed benchmarking system can be used by companies from other countries with proper adaptations.
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