O segmento de automação industrial no Brasil: constituição, desenvolvimento e mudança no processo de abertura

Resumo

During the eighties, was set up in Brazil an industrial segment producer
of equipaments of industrial automation. The development of this industry
took place under the official market reserve policy of informatics. Since
1990 started a process of opening up of the Brazilian economy and local
firms of industrial automation were increasingly facing international
competition, which grew further with the end of the market reserve policy
in 1992. This paper analyses this experience with special concern to the
structure and performance of this productive segment, as well as to the
improvement of technological and production capabilities of local firms.
The ma i n proposition of the paper is that the country should preserve and
improve the segment of industrial automation, because this is likely to
retain the domestic production of core microelectronics technical base
activities.