Founded in 1946, Ferreira de Sá is currently one of the biggest and oldest existing companies producing hand-made rugs in Europe. Located in a small town in the north of Portugal, it started off as a small manufacture and quickly evolved into a large-scale organisation.Robot automated production of luxury rugs for high end market.Implementation of customized Information Systems dedicated to Production & Maintenance Planning and Control using Bar Code, RFID, DataLog Analysis… Show more Founded in 1946, Ferreira de Sá is currently one of the biggest and oldest existing companies producing hand-made rugs in Europe. Located in a small town in the north of Portugal, it started off as a small manufacture and quickly evolved into a large-scale organisation.Robot automated production of luxury rugs for high end market.Implementation of customized Information Systems dedicated to Production & Maintenance Planning and Control using Bar Code, RFID, DataLog Analysis, Touchscreens and other technologies that foster operational efficiency.www.ferreiradesa.pt Show less

Being a certified company (ISO 9001:2008 certification registation number: 00108572 by TÜV RHEINLAND PORTUGAL), all our products are submitted to very strict quality control rules and methodologies.My work consisted on helping the company to better structure and digitalize quality control.

Production cost control, production unconformities, CAD design improvements

This work aims the analysis of the production in company Tapestries Ferreira de Sá and the identification of an IS solution that supports production management. The work here described was based on the author´s training placement at company Tapestries Ferreira de Sá. A literature survey is set up as the groundwork for the study, which reviews the main concepts related with production management, information systems for production management and ERP systems. The solution proposed is the… Show more This work aims the analysis of the production in company Tapestries Ferreira de Sá and the identification of an IS solution that supports production management. The work here described was based on the author´s training placement at company Tapestries Ferreira de Sá. A literature survey is set up as the groundwork for the study, which reviews the main concepts related with production management, information systems for production management and ERP systems. The solution proposed is the development of an integrated system, called SIGestPro, which allows the management of all the information concerning the company production in an effective way and that solves the problems of redundancy and integration of the different sources of information, and enables the improvement of the performance through the application of technologies and equipment for RFID, Barcode, TWAIN and TouchScreen. The SIGestPro functionality of a DataLogs analyser, enabling the analysis of machine times, is described. Finally, the work proposes new forms of production planning, based on the 2D Nesting problem of irregular shapes and a Gantt chart.#ProductionManagement #ProductionManagementSystem #2DNestingProblem #ProductionIdentificationSystems #ProductionPlanning #DataLogsAnalysis Show less

Ferreira de Sá Rugs got acquired by Sherpa Capital Private Equity Fund Management, merged with Desistart, generating the new company Unique Rugs.System integration between the 3 factories resulted in the merge process.