Manualização virtual interativa de máquinas agrícolas (MAVIMAG)

Abstract

The instructions manuals, usually, present comprehension difficulties for the users. In this perspective, it was caught a glimpse that the conception, elaboration and development of a manual is an extremely complex task, since its characteristic is multidisciplinary. With the technological evolution in the agricultural area, it is indispensable that the agricultural machines have manuals that are standardized, attractive and of easily understanding for the operator/maintainer/owner, and that brings information related to safety in all the stages of utilization. This study presents the development of the Virtual Interactive Manualization of Agricultural Machines describing since the conception, textualization, standardization and elaboration of manuals, until the construction and implementation of a Web Application (WebApp), which is a computer system integrated to a database based on the web. To the conception and textualization of the manual, it was found a possible way, applying the vision obtained through the study about the interlinking of Semiotics, Linguistics and Cognition to understand the enunciative functioning of the instruction and adjust the level of discourse of the manual to the profile of the listener-reader, that is, of the operator/maintainer/owner. A manual of agricultural machines must be standardized in its content and in its presentation, as in the country there are no standard that assist specifically in its elaboration, it was conducted a research, compilation and storage of information of the national and international Technical Standards, Regulating Standards and the legislation was done. The Virtual Interactive Manualization of Agricultural Machines was built and implemented using Web Engineering (WebE) techniques and gives the manufacturer/product manage a WebApp, with a framework integrated with a multimedia data basis containing information about the standardized manualization of agricultural machines, that is, the construction of manuals in agreement with the standards and the actual legislation. Still, it provides to the final user, the operator/ maintainer/owner, an accessible manual, of easily understanding, with emphasis on safety information in all the stages of utilization, enabling to explore it in a virtual interactive and multimedia environment. Besides, it is possible to download, print and visualize it as a PDF file, it from any mobile device.