Process technology: scope and limitations

Abstract

The implementation of process technology is essential for the different sectors of the economy. - The pursuit of goals of the company by the optimization of process technology requires that technology is the state of the art, but when technology is able to ensure sustainability. To the extent that technology is quickly discarded, its replacement may become anti-ecological, if there is not a process of sustainability.  If the average life of technology decreases, the average of human life may tend to decrease due to a possible decrease on the average of life in nature. If manufacturing processes only take into consideration the highest efficiency to enhance economic performance without considering social and environmental costs, it would be an irrational practice in the use of resources, leading to self-destruction.

In order to minimize the evils of formal rationality that ends into irrationality, process technology must be grounded in research. This must be a research not only to growth for also to develop. This development must be based on the person and on nature for the reproduction of life. In this case, knowledge created by research does not run out, but it is accumulated for the creation of science and technology. Such knowledge is being built as part of the social practice.