Knowledge management and innovation are important for organizational environments, acting as a strategy to maintain and improve competitiveness. This article evaluates, in an exploratory study, knowledge management in a medium-sized company. To this end, a systematic literature review and a qualitative interview with fourteen employees of a medium-sized company in the construction industry were conducted. The questionnaires were applied remotely to employees with leadership positions and direct labor from the company. The results showed that, although it was evident that the company follows management principles that tangent dimensions of the SECI Model, there is an opportunity for improvement in the internalization and combination dimensions.
This study aims to analyze the material flow of wind turbine blade manufacturing for an onshore wind farm with a nominal capacity of 300 Megawatts (MW). For this purpose, the Material Flow Analysis (MFA) method was used in STAN® 2.7.101 software. A material demand of 4,946 t of material and waste generation of 514 t from composite material made of fiberglass and epoxy resin were estimated in the manufacturing of 225 wind turbine blades in one year. In this way, cleaner production practices are required to promote the reduction of material loss and the utilization of waste materials.
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