Uso do design thinking para apoiar o desenvolvimento de um aplicativo no processo de esmagamento de soja

Abstract

The present work it is about the use of the methodology of Design Thinking in the industry of soybean crush, which has many opportunities of innovation and improvements. In this sense, Design Thinking was used to support the development a mobile App for the milling area, because it was desired digitalize the information deriving of operation referring to tasks of housekeeping (clean and organization), with the intention to contribute for a higher productivity and process safety, since the data was filled only in a notebook, which demanded rework for the transcription of these data to computerized systems, in addition to demanding storage space, difficulties in retrieving and storing information. The aim was to develop something practical, fast application that could address the demands of operation, both by operators who had difficulties with the use of technological tools, and by decision-making managers. This application is the first of a company's digitization initiative, restricting itself to the housekeeping of the crushing process, acting as a Minimum Viable Product, which should later be improved and integrated with other company information systems. As the main results obtained, it was found that the application achieved its initial objectives, demonstrating the viability of continuing this initiative.