ALONÇO, Airton dos S.; PINHEIRO, Eder D.; MASSOCO, Daniel B.
Resumen:
To test an agricultural machine, in fundament, is the gathering of information with the
purpose of taking a decision. It is widely accepted that technological inventions from implicit
knowledge in modern agricultural machinery generated many benefits to manufacturers, farmers and
the society in general. With this aim, the prototype of a soil micro-relief correction machine was
evaluated, in order to assess its real ability on performing the intended design function. In this work,
two treatments were made, with four passages each. In those plots, land bumpiness was examined
before and after the equipment usage. According to the measurements, the test results were considered
as inadequate for the original machine purpose. From those, suggestions were given to the
manufacturer in order to contribute for improvements in machine specifications or even to a newly
redesigned, better equipment, taking in mind the need of compliance with operational and safety
specifications to really assure its quality.
