MARINI, Vinicius K.; ROMANO, Leonardo N.; DALLMEYER, Arno U.
Abstract:
The agricultural machinery development process encompasses a set of phases which
start from the recognition of a market opportunity up to the launch of an agricultural machine (AM)
and its aftersales validation within the intended market. However the execution of a formal
development process is not a guarantee for the market success of the AM, if the motivating need for
such undertaking is not to be translated into adequate functional requirements for the operational
context of its potential users. The undertaking of this work involved, in the first phase, the survey of
references wherein the agricultural operation is characterized. They were found with organizations of
descriptive approaches upon machinery by agricultural task, and an example of systematic method of
characterization for the same. Such survey created conditions for the execution of a case study on that
characterization in an academic work on the definition of functional requirements for a small
lawn/garden tractor. The attained results allow concluding that the systematic consideration of the
agricultural task makes it easier to synthesize functional requirements for good operation
performance of AM in the crop field.
