Marly Monteiro de Carvalho is PhD professor at Polytechnic School, University of Sao Paulo, since1992. She holds Production Engineering degree (Sao Carlos Engineering School- University of Sao Paulo), M.Sc. and Ph.D in the same area (University of Santa Catarina). She is the research coordinator of QEP Quality and Product Engineering Group of CNPq (a Federal Research Agency). She was a visiting fellow at Polytechnic of Milan sponsored by a State Government Research Agency (FAPESP). She participated in a program entitled international top management on quality leadership, sponsored by SIDA- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. She was researcher in a project of Quality Control on Textile Industry, sponsored by Organization of American States - OAS Paris in France. She belongs to the board of Technical Director of ABEPRO- Production Engineering Brazilian Association and editor of the Brazilian Journal call "Revista Producao". During several years she was also researcher at Technological Research Institute of Sao Paulo State (1992-2000).