Credit hours
In-class work per week |
Practice per week |
Credits |
Duration |
Total |
4 |
2 |
8 |
15 weeks |
120 hours |
Instructor
Leandro Maria Gimenez
Marcos Milan
Objective
To develop the concepts of planning, management and modeling applied to agricultural and forestry mechanized systems and the interaction of these systems with the environment.
Content
Agricultural mechanized systems: definitions and terminology. Working days. Performance of agricultural mechanized systems: tractor performance; draft and power requirements. Field capacity and efficiency. Tractor and implement choice; Number of sets. Direct costs: fixed and variable costs; operational cost. Indirect costs: timeliness. Models applied to the design of mechanized systems. Quality control in agricultural operations; processes capability.
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