To be agile and adaptive, the production systems need to be able to meet the changing market requirements regarding product characteristics, quantities, on-time delivery, and cost. Most of the production companies in Europe have or have pretended to be certified for management systems ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management), ISO 14001:2015 (Environmental Management) and OHSAS 18001 (occupational health and safety management system specification) as well. On top of that, asset-intensive companies are implementing ISO 55000:2014 (Standards for Asset Management), that enables them to assure that they use corporation assets correctly. All these management systems are complementary and are the base for business process management. When a company has documented processes, it becomes the valuable asset for analyses and optimisation. The current article arguments that the business process management, including risks, qualifications, objectives, opportunities, etc. are not enough for smooth enterprise management without capability planning and management. Authors suggest that in addition to ISO demand companies must have documented and managed capabilities.
Risk assessment is one of the important ways to analyze and protecting production processes. It facilitates to focus on the risks that really matter to execute a fail-safe manufacturing process or task. Risk management is considered to be a proactive and planned approach in order to encounter problems and reacting to them if they arise. On the other hand it provides assistance to continuous monitoring and evaluating of potential failure that might occurs during a process, moreover, it also explores the ways to avoid probable cost, time delays and quality of a product or service. The output of assessment process such as list of potential failures, their consequences and likelihood, and response system is circulated within the enterprise, so that personnel involved of risks and the criticality of a machine itself that performs the specific production process.
In today's business environment enterprises are trying to establish reorganization changes in their work and organization. It is necessary to structure the existing business to understand all enterprise functions, and change them in order to achieve the main enterprise objectives. To stay competitive under new conditions the external and internal factors should be assessed before restructuring of existing practices. The goal of this paper is to show how to put into practice the process of transition from Small-sized enterprise to Medium-sized enterprise category. For this purpose the existing company data that is stored in the ERP system should be transformed into knowledge. In this paper we consider the conditional "Metal Service" enterprise that produces various metal constructions and plans to produce load lifting equipment (jib cranes, overhead cranes, and additional equipment for existing cranes) for manufacturing enterprises that produce heavy products. The manufacturing capacities of enterprise are defined based on IDEF0 functional model created for each type of product. The simulation results received from these models enables to analyse new production processes, to estimate production time and route for all type of unit and yearly product release. In addition, after the Systematic Layout Planning (SLP) methodology and Relationship Matrix (RM) was applied to simulation results it became possible to calculate new manufacturing area, facilities layout and to assess the new production capacities.
A project portfolio is referred to as an optimal combination of specified projects to best achieve defined goals of an enterprise. The goals may imply either economic and business strategies, or technical strategies. This paper presents an idea of project portfolio management in intelligent decision support systems (IDSS), which emphasizes on the problem of resource allocation, in particular cash. A rational way of distributing cash among different projects is modeled. We propose a concept of cash-flow dynamics module, which can be plugged into IDSS. The IDSS allows project managers to make decisions regarding the order of priority for projects' launching times based on risk and profitability of projects. This paper describes how this module can support cash-flow management processes, from budgeting for future periods to tracking real-time cash flow. Based on an analogy between cash-flow processes and physical flow of fluid, a cash-flow dynamics model is introduced. The theory of Bernoulli principle for cash-flow planning and tracking is applied.
Nowadays an increasing number of enterprises realize the importance of competitiveness improvement through collaboration. It is obvious that the collaborative network is becoming an effective tool that enables small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to survive under the global crisis pressure. It enforces enterprises to focus resources and means on the main activities, and to rebuild the architecture for manufacturing system in effective ways. Therefore, we decided to continue working on research topic of collaborative manufacturing projects management. In this paper we introduce the novel framework for the further development of the existing collaborative network concept in which we combined multiple project management methodology and fractal model of collaborative network of enterprises. The proposed framework enables SME-s to use resources more efficiently, reduce manufacturing costs, rapidly respond to customer demand changes, increase the productivity, reduce total lead time of collaborative projects, improve the products quality, improve the practice of collaboration in multi-project management, improve stability, share the expensive costs and equipment, reduce inventory, raise the accuracy of the forecast, reduce the data entry time, and improve the performance of delivery. In this paper, we will present the project-based fractal collaborative network framework, multiple project management and fractal model framework. We will introduce our vision of information and communication processes in the novel collaborative network, tasks and relationships of collaborative enterprises project managers, external and internal relationships of project managers.
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Purpose: of this paper is to summarize the application study of a general framework of intelligent decision support system (IDSS) to collaborative projects in conglomerate enterprises. In some situations, even with the knowledge of how to find right information and which decision making methods to apply, we do not have enough time to make right decisions at the right time. In this paper, the framework of an IDSS system to support real-time collaboration and enable seamless data exchange is presented. Design/methodology/approach: The important roles of facilitation and organization that the IDSS plays are demonstrated. In the case study, examples of manufacturing projects analysis are given with the known methods, including Analytical Hierarchy Process and Bayes’ rule. Findings: It is demonstrated that IDSS systems can help us to manage information flow, clean data, transform data into knowledge, perform analysis and monitor the effectiveness of manufacturing projects during the whole life cycle. Research limitations/implications: The functionality of the developed framework is limited by the willingness of management style and culture changes in companies, as well as the level of interoperability between commercial software components. Only the essential components that influence the success of the manufacturing projects are considered. Practical implications: Project engineers and managers need to adapt to the new IT-based working environment. Originality/value: New information management model and the framework of IDSS system are proposed. The new collaborative decision making system consists of different parts: management of information flow, preparation of data for decision making, and actual decision making and monitoring of manufacturing projects supported by several methods.
Very often we complain about the decisions that were previously made. Yet the fact is that the decisions made were based on the knowledge we had before. By now we have gained more knowledge. Therefore the common problem of making decisions is that decisions are not made reliable enough because parameters in risk assessment and supply chain management are underestimated or not robust enough. In this paper we propose a framework that will try to predict future situations collectively and increase the reliability of decision making. Project management is the art of making right decision. Project managers are faced by huge array of choices. Decision analysis is used in strategic planning, operational management, and other areas of business. Decision analysis helps companies to determine optimal exploration and production strategies with uncertainties in cost, prices, and exploration prospects. This paper describes project management steps and the way they can be supported by Intelligent Decision Support system (IDSS). The main parameters assessed are total cost of the projects, time of the project total fulfilment, number of subcontractors, location factors, and etc. IDSS will enable to collect data, propose possible alternative decisions, and provide risk assessment.
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Purpose: of this paper is to summarize the application study of the general framework of intelligent decision support system (IDSS) to collaborative projects in conglomerate enterprises. Today's market competition requires project managers to make correct decisions fast. In some situations, even with the knowledge of how to find right information and which decision making methods to apply, people do not have enough time to make right decisions at the right time. In this paper, the frame work of an IDSS system to support real-time collaboration and enable seamless data exchange is presented. The IDSS system is able to support the information flow between internal and external sources. Data are shared, prepared, and streamlined to appropriate analytical tools. A case study of manufacturing projects in a specific European shipbuilding conglomerate is used to illustrate the process and usefullness of IDSS in combination with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Design/methodology/approach: A model of internal and external information flows is proposed for enterprise information management. The important roles of facilitation and organization that the IDSS plays are demonstrated. In the case study examples of manufacturing projects analysis are given with the known methods, including Analytical Hierarchy Process and Bayes Rule. Findings: It was found that IDSS is an essential component to enhance decision makings with complex information flows in large conglomerates. Main conclusions is to show what we will achieve through IDSS systems, to show how perform analysis in logical way. Research limitations/implications: The functionality of the developed framework is limited by the willingness of management style and culture changes in companies, as well as the level of interoperability between commercial software components. Practical implications: Project engineers and managers need to adapt to the new IT-based working environment. Intensive use of software tools may become the major challenge for those who cannot absorb information based on the new format of information presentation. Originality/value: The proposed new information management model and the framework of IDSS system enable ease of data sharing and processing by internal and external stakeholders in decision makings. The collaborative decision making consists of different parts: the management of information flow, the preparation of data for decision making, and actual decision making supported by several methods.
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