Project management

 Project  management for factories

Project management is one of the important issues in management because of its utmost importance in investing resources, the most important of which is time and the effective distribution of the human component.

Objectives of project management:

Project management aims to maintain: quality - reduce costs - increase profits as much as possible - rapid knowledge progress - technological development and this is the core of the administrative work of any facility.

Project selection:

The process of selecting a specific project depends on the relationship between time, cost, and specifications in projects, regardless of their nature, size and activity.

It shares three main goals:

 Time: Here, the time that the project will take should be specified

It is necessary to know the start and end times of the project.

Cost: How much reasonable costs the project will take-up

Specifications must be identical and appropriate. Therefore, we see that these three elements are important with each other and must be balanced in an equal and reasonable manner in an integrated manner, meaning that a company is not contracted to establish a project just because of the low cost. Without considering the specifications and time, all of these elements are closely related.

The differences in the organizational forms of the projects:

There are several organizational forms for the project, namely:

- The project is part of the functional organization: here the project is affiliated with one of the functional departments in the company

Or the organization and it will be implemented by the department closest to the nature of the project.

- Organizing the independent project: the project here is separate from the departments of the organization and is in the form of an independent unit

Managed by independent staff and varying independence.

- The organizational structure of the project (the matrix): here there is a mixture between functional and independent organization so that all of their advantages are taken advantage of and their shortcomings are eliminated, and there is no optimal formula for choosing the organizational form of the project because this is subject to several factors, the most important of which are the nature of the project, the technical orientation of the company and the available resources. .

Preparing the project implementation plan:

The higher authority reviews the preliminary plan and the executive and time programs submitted to it for approval, and then add the activities, schedules and budgets that it will perform, auditing and combining them with what has been raised from the lowest rank, then raises them together to the higher rank, and the installation of the plan continues to be audited by adopting what is raised from the minimum and compiling and raising to a higher level Until it reaches the project manager who approves it and submits it to senior management.

The company makes project schedules:

 The company that owns the project or the owner's engineering consultancy office makes scheduling of the project because scheduling is a coordinated framework for planning, directing, and monitoring the project, and schedule shows the status of reliability and overlap of all activities and tasks in the project, and scheduling highlights the time in which the project needs special expertise and skills as it facilitates communication between project departments, and a function such as scheduling determines the expected end date of the project, and there are critical project activities that are delayed for the project, and it also helps in mitigating disagreements and conflicts over resources and other benefits of scheduling.

Elements of a project plan (project contract):

The project plan or commitment contract in the project includes the following elements:

Overview (introduction) - project objectives - general approach - resources - schedules - contractual aspects - individuals - methods of evaluation - potential problems and difficulties.

Project scheduling stages: