Managing an Engineering Project

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nayem Rahman ◽  
Alexis Wittman ◽  
Sallam Thabet
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Engineering Project ◽  
Engineering Plant ◽  
Project Plan ◽  
Complex Engineering ◽  
Tools And Methods

This article provides an overview of the comprehensive process in creating a “Project Plan” for an engineering project. The authors discuss the challenges of project management tasks, tools, and methods used. They also discuss and compare other commonly used project planning practices and techniques. This article includes authors' experiences drawn from their careers and industries that are applicable to projects of this nature. They propose methodical approaches to handle a large, and complex engineering and construction project that takes several years to complete. The project selected is a hypothetical biomass engineering plant considered for this examination.

Managing an Engineering Project

2016 ◽  
pp. 79-97
Author(s):  
Nayem Rahman ◽  
Alexis Wittman ◽  
Sallam Thabet
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Engineering Project ◽  
Engineering Plant ◽  
Project Plan ◽  
Complex Engineering ◽  
Tools And Methods

This chapter provides an overview of the comprehensive process in creating a “Project Plan” for an engineering project. The authors discuss the challenges of project management tasks, tools, and methods used. They also discuss and compare other commonly used project planning practices and techniques. This chapter includes authors' experiences drawn from their careers and industries that are applicable to projects of this nature. They propose methodical approaches to handle a large, and complex engineering and construction project that takes several years to complete. The project selected is a hypothetical biomass engineering plant considered for this examination.

Application of Business Rules in Design Processes to Tackle Uncertainty in Product Development

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Spieß ◽  
Reiner Anderl
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Workflow Management ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Business Rules ◽  
Project Plan

The development of innovative industrial products and systems, like e.g. aeronautical parts, is characterized by its complex processes under tight constraints. The involvement of multiple disciplines, departments and subcontractors to plan and create the optimal solution to fulfill given requirements under the constraints of time, money and quality leads to an urgent need in professional project management and monitoring. Although project management allows the comprehensive planning of the processes, detailed workflows and their implementation cannot directly be enforced, controlled and documented. Especially the lack in documentation and traceability leads to uncertainty in project execution and monitoring, as well as unconformity within the development of vital and safety critical products and systems. Best practices are substituted by ad hoc steps to meet deadlines like milestones and sync-points. Workflow management systems, which could offer some support to reduce addressed uncertainty, do not cover all involved parties and are not directly linked to the project management, leading to characteristic problems in such development projects. This paper presents a new approach to enforce the implementation of planned project plans in development projects with multiple development parties, based on business rules to increase traceability and documentation as well as to promote the adoption of best practices in project execution. The emphasis is placed on two aspects, namely a methodology of modularization of project plans and the formulation in business rules which are to be executed in business rules management systems as well as the implementation of a best practice repository based on the project plan modules. The modularization of project plans in combination with a linked business rules management system allows on the one hand promoting best practice application in project execution and on the other hand to save gathered project planning knowledge based on the actual implementation of the plan and to reuse it in forthcoming similar projects. A further important advantage is the ability to plan and enforce documentation of the actual execution of work packages and deviation from the plan, with a major impact on traceability. The work presented here has a valuable implication on the traceability in complex development processes and facilitate the application of best practices through project management by providing project plan modules with attached rules for their implementation in workflows.

Impact of Engineering Software on Construction Project Management in Bahrain

2014 ◽  
Vol 501-504 ◽  
pp. 2614-2618
Author(s):  
Samer Abdulla Aqlan
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Construction Project Management ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Engineering Software ◽  
The Impact ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire

The main goal of this research is to ensure the important of engineering software in the construction industry in Kingdome of Bahrain. A self-administered questionnaire was done via E mail .The research investigated the impact of engineering software toward three factors of the success project scope, cost, and time. The results show that there is positive impact when we are using engineering software on construction project management. The primavera project manager software is the major software is using in construction companies for planning and controls the project; primavera project planning p3 is the second software and the third software is MS project. The research concluded that the engineering software positively impact on project success and increase its performance.

scholarly journals Project management in environmental construction

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 11012
Author(s):  
M Oskolkova
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Project Team ◽  
General Contracting ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Main Activity ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Site Control

The article is devoted to the analysis of the stages and tools for managing the construction project of SK Art-Sroy LLC and the development of the normal of the project planning process, the matrix of responsibility and the structure of the project team. The main activity of the organization is general contracting, management of all processes at the construction site, control of each stage of production, responsibility for implementation of the project, starting with preparation of the site and ending with the delivery of the finished object to the Customer. For clarity, the normal of one of the stages of project management is presented, with its help it is possible to trace the technologies for performing individual tasks and relationship of individual officials. The structure of the construction project team was developed and the matrix of responsibility of the project participants was determined. Also, in the course of the analysis, a number of issues were identified that the organization faces in the process of managing a construction project.

scholarly journals Research on Engineering Project Management Method Based on BIM Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Xingliang Du
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
The Other ◽  
Engineering Project ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Whole Life Cycle

Construction projects require a significant amount of money and other resources in order to carry them out in an effective way. Cost control is a critical step in ensuring the success of the project and increasing its value. Nowadays, the large-scale application of BIM technology has ushered a technical change in the development of construction projects, which has greatly increased the level and efficiency of project management. Due to BIM technology, the construction engineering quality is significantly improved which really helped in obtaining the social and economic benefits. However, the BIM technology in our country is started relatively late and the technical force is not strong enough; then correspondingly, we must deal with many problems in the process of developing and using BIM technology based projects. In view of the fact and to address this issue, this paper establishes a three-dimensional architectural model based on the relevant information and data of the construction project using the BIM technology. The proposed model optimizes the clustering of construction project information data and adaptively configures the whole life cycle process of the construction projects. In addition, the performance of the proposed system has been compared and tested with the other systems as well which shows how good the proposed system is, as compared to the other systems. Further, the proposed model makes the artificial intelligence efficiency of the project management better. The simulation results show that the model not only has good access and query capabilities but also greatly improves the intelligence level of the project management.

Design of Project Management Information System for Electricity Infrastructure

2014 ◽  
Vol 686 ◽  
pp. 742-746
Author(s):  
Lei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Electric Power ◽  
Management Information System ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Power Engineering ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Engineering Project ◽  
Management Platform ◽  
Project Management Information System

In order to solve the existing problems of power system infrastructure project management, through the summary of power engineering project management experience and lessons learned, and make use of modern computer technology, network technology, various kinds of information integration and processing, the paper constructs the infrastructure information management platform that can provides a wealth of necessary information for construction project decision makers. This paper designs a kind of electric power construction project management information system, design and presented the function module structure and its subsystems in this paper, and finally completes the system development. The function of this system meets the design requirements, to improve and standardize the project management of electric power engineering.

Choice of Maturity Model to Complex Engineering Projects

2018 ◽  
pp. 112-123
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Ideal Model ◽  
Complex Engineering ◽  
Engineering Projects ◽  
The Ideal

After understanding maturity in project management, it is important to understand how to choose the ideal model for complex engineering projects. This choice will be assigned to the number of interfaces in the project. Survey of stakeholders and how they relate to the enterprise will directly result in the number of such interfaces. Once the maturity model is understood, it will be possible to manage the projects more accurately and increase the chances of success. This chapter will present how interfaces are identified and managed in an engineering and construction project.

The Maturity Model Research of Construction Project Management Informationization

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 2222-2227
Author(s):  
Jia Chen ◽  
Gai Hua Yu ◽  
Shu Yan Cui ◽  
Yan Ru Feng
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Construction Project Management ◽  
Entropy Weight ◽  
Engineering Project ◽  
Capability Maturity

Construction project management informatization (CPMI) is an effective application of information technology in the construction project management and in line with the requirements of the construction industry informatization development by the Ministry of Construction. However these is still no very effective methods and standards for measuring and evaluating CPMI level. Taking advantage of software managing capability maturity model, combining with the characteristics of construction engineering project, this paper will design maturity standards of CPMI and also CPMI evaluating model with multi indicators; at the same time the entropy weight fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method will be used for evaluating.

Using artificial intelligence techniques to support project management

1987 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond E. Levitt ◽  
John C. Kunz
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Knowledge Engineering ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Ai Planning ◽  
Engineering Project ◽  
Knowledge Processing ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Knowledge Based

AbstractThis paper develops a philosophy for the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques as aids in engineering project management.First, we propose that traditional domain-independent, ‘means–and’ planners, may be valuable aids for planning detailed subtasks on projects, but that domain-specific planning tools are needed for work package or executive level project planning. Next, we propose that hybrid computer systems, using knowledge processing techniques in conjunction with procedural techniques such as decision analysis and network-based scheduling, can provide valuable new kinds of decision support for project objective-setting and project control, respectively. Finally we suggest that knowledge-based interactive graphics, developed for providing graphical explanations and user control in advanced knowledge processing environments, can provide powerful new kinds of decision support for project management.The first claim is supported by a review and analysis of previous work in the area of automated AI planning techniques. Our experience with PLATFORM I, II and III, a series of prototype AI-leveraged project management systems built using the IntelliCorp Knowledge Engineering Environment (KEE™), provides the justification for the latter two claims.

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