Design Science Research: método de pesquisa para a engenharia de produção Design Science Research: a research method to production engineering

This paper aims to contribute to the Brazilian community of Production Engineering addressing the need to adopt a research strategy focused on the evolution of Production Engineering as a Design Science (DS) showing its effects and process. A theoretical and conceptual methodological approach based on an extensive literature review was used. The literature review showed that the concepts of the methodology proposed associated to Design Science Research (DSR) are relevant and can be applied to Production Engineering. The present study presents a review of DS and DSR concepts stressing the importance of defining the classes of problems and the artifacts to solve them. It also suggests appropriate steps to conduct DSR in Production Engineering context. To deepen the understanding of the meaning of DSR, this article also makes analyses and comparisons between DSR, Case Study, and Action Research in order to clarify the main differences between these methods. Finally, this study makes some remarks on the application of DSR methods and the validation of DSR results. Resumo: Para garantir que uma pesquisa seja reconhecida como solida e potencialmente relevante, tanto pelo campo academico quanto pela sociedade em geral, ela deve demonstrar que foi desenvolvida com rigor e que e passivel de debate e verificacao. E neste âmbito que um metodo de pesquisa robusto se torna imprescindivel para o sucesso na conducao de um estudo. Este artigo busca contribuir para a comunidade de Engenharia de Producao argumentando pela necessidade de adotar-se um metodo de pesquisa centrado na evolucao de uma "Ciencia do Projeto" (Design Science) da area, e evidenciando seu sentido e suas formas de operacionalizacao. Para desenvolvimento deste artigo, utilizou-se a abordagem metodologica teorico-conceitual fundamentada em ampla revisao da literatura. A partir da revisao da literatura, foi possivel verificar que os conceitos da proposta metodologica associada a pesquisa em Design Science, sao pertinentes e aplicaveis a Engenharia de Producao. O artigo apresenta um historico conceitual a respeito da Design Science e da Design Science Research, a importância da definicao das Classes de Problemas e dos Artefatos gerados no âmbito da pesquisa, e os principais passos para operacionalizar a Design Science Research. Para aprofundar o entendimento da pauta em questao, o artigo tambem propoe comparacoes e analises sobre a Design Science Research, o Estudo de Caso e a Pesquisa-Acao, dado que os dois ultimos sao reconhecidos como metodos de pesquisa no âmbito da Engenharia de Producao nacional. Ao final, o estudo busca apresentar alguns cuidados para a aplicacao e validacao da Design Science Research.

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