During the last few years, both industrial and academic people have questioned the usefulness of Project Management (PM) tools in manufacturing field. Despite several applications arising from PM now known like time management, risk management, budgeting, scheduling and others, these tools appear to be barely used where industrial projects are characterized by a high degree of innovation. Throughout history the great uncertainty about innovative projects duration obliged project managers to overestimate processing time as precautionary behaviour. This conduct often precludes new project opportunities for companies, decreasing their competitiveness. To overcome this limit, this work wants to develop a hybrid methodology to estimate as accurately as possible individual durations of activities belonging to a complex process. That kind of intervention lead to minimize possible costs for wrong estimations and maximize enterprises competitiveness. For this purpose, the authors combine some statistical tools used in Project management as Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), Critical Path Method (CPM) and the parametric estimation with physical models used in manufacturing field, validating the obtained results in a real manufacturing case study. Through this research, authors put in evidence the possibility to adopt these techniques to well-known procedures employed to make products never realized before, for which no previous accurate data are available so far. This study highlights how it would be possible to reduce the effect of precautionary behaviors, supporting companies to accept a higher number of projects to be developed in a time range.

Baffo, I., Salvatori, S., Introna, V., Esdra, A., Cesarotti, V. (2018). An application of Project Management techniques for the estimation of processing times in industrial projects with a high degree of innovation. In Proceedings of the Summer School Francesco Turco (pp.417-423). AIDI - Italian Association of Industrial Operations Professors.

An application of Project Management techniques for the estimation of processing times in industrial projects with a high degree of innovation

Introna, V.;Cesarotti, V.
2018-01-01

Abstract

During the last few years, both industrial and academic people have questioned the usefulness of Project Management (PM) tools in manufacturing field. Despite several applications arising from PM now known like time management, risk management, budgeting, scheduling and others, these tools appear to be barely used where industrial projects are characterized by a high degree of innovation. Throughout history the great uncertainty about innovative projects duration obliged project managers to overestimate processing time as precautionary behaviour. This conduct often precludes new project opportunities for companies, decreasing their competitiveness. To overcome this limit, this work wants to develop a hybrid methodology to estimate as accurately as possible individual durations of activities belonging to a complex process. That kind of intervention lead to minimize possible costs for wrong estimations and maximize enterprises competitiveness. For this purpose, the authors combine some statistical tools used in Project management as Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), Critical Path Method (CPM) and the parametric estimation with physical models used in manufacturing field, validating the obtained results in a real manufacturing case study. Through this research, authors put in evidence the possibility to adopt these techniques to well-known procedures employed to make products never realized before, for which no previous accurate data are available so far. This study highlights how it would be possible to reduce the effect of precautionary behaviors, supporting companies to accept a higher number of projects to be developed in a time range.
23rd Summer School "Francesco Turco" - Industrial Systems Engineering 2018
Grand Hotel et des Palmes, ita
2018
Animp
Rilevanza internazionale
contributo
2018
Settore ING-IND/17 - IMPIANTI INDUSTRIALI MECCANICI
English
Industrial Project; Project Management technique; Time estimation;
http://www.summerschool-aidi.it/
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Baffo, I., Salvatori, S., Introna, V., Esdra, A., Cesarotti, V. (2018). An application of Project Management techniques for the estimation of processing times in industrial projects with a high degree of innovation. In Proceedings of the Summer School Francesco Turco (pp.417-423). AIDI - Italian Association of Industrial Operations Professors.
Baffo, I; Salvatori, S; Introna, V; Esdra, A; Cesarotti, V
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