Tecnologia: Conceitos e Dimens es

This paper discusses technology concepts and dimensions, in the field oftechnology management at the manufacture sector, with respect to product and process. Itanalyses the generic use nowadays of the term “technology” like “educationtechnology”or management technology”, which are essentially methodology and nottechnology.Considering the embedded technology in products/process, and technologycapability in the organizations, was possible the development or the deployment of theterm “technology” creating the concepts of “macrotechnology” and “microtechnology”.While the macrotechnology is referent to the systemic concept inside the organization, themicrotechnology is referent to the technology inside the product/process. Starting withthese concepts is possible to analyse strategic and operational aspects of the organizationwith respect the product technology, the process technology, the technology vulnerability,and the technology capabilit.y. With a preliminar exploratory research was possible toknow some ascpects of the organizations’s behavior in the field of the technology at themanufacture sector. It was detected limited capability in those organizations with respectthe components of microtecnology, like the “core technoloy” and the” boundariestechnologies” , either to the product or process. The same conclusion is valide to thetechnology capability of those companies, related with the macrotechnology concept.