This paper proposes a reference approach to the establishment of Engineering Management Informatization (EMI) through the analysis of various stakeholders involved in the implementation process. It also brings up the 4-Layer architecture (SARI) which consists of Service Layer, Application Layer, Resource Layer and Infrastructure Layer by the analysis of the process of evolution and the corresponding model of EMI architecture. This paper describes the content of SARI and its application to EMI.SARI is a common architecture with the characteristics of integrated system application, centralized data storage, unified IP-based networks, completed security mechanism and efficient intelligent management, achieves facilities sharing, data sharing, applications integration and services unification which provides a reference for the implementation of EMI.
Project systematical evaluation is actually the important and necessary tool for the project-driven company to continuously improve their project performance and efficiency. This study tried to improve the project excellence model (known as PE model) by means of clarifying and excluding the complex methodologies and means that were prone to cause misunderstanding in the evaluation process, and proposed the simplified model with more rational and transparent means to systematically evaluate the projects, and applied such an improved model to evaluate project processes and performance and gain and loss for project stakeholders. The improved model has proposed more consistent evaluating criteria that are more practical in evaluation activities of project knowledge management for project-driven companies.
Scientific and technological innovation system of Chinese offshore oil industry in terms of establishment background, developing phases, construction thoughts, main contents，practice highlights, achievements and leading functions was introduced. During the 30 years’ fast developing history, scientific and technological innovation system has been supporting the great leap of Chinese offshore oil industry. The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) makes its endeavor to promote scientific and technological innovative capacities and core competition abilities, complete the organizational, management and technological systems, in order to build scientific and technological innovation system of Chinese offshore oil industry supporting the fast and effective sustainable development of the corporation and realizing the aim of “building an international first class energy corporation”. During the practice process, the system shows many highlights with CNOOC characters, enhances the scientific and technological core competition abilities, and helps to establish a new offshore oil industry with Chinese characters, which makes contribution to safeguard the energy security, protect offshore interests and promote the development of the national economy in China.
Considering the high-risk characteristics of the high-sour gas field development, China Petrochemical Corporation follows the management concepts focusing on safety all the time in the project construction and makes safety the first precondition, primary basis and essential guarantee for the gas field development. By means of strengthening the key links such as standard establishment and implementation, technical innovation, new equipments and new materials R&D and application, system supervision, etc., it overcomes the superior difficulties with high technology and handles the high risks with system control. As a result, it has built the first ultra-deep and high-sour large gas field of China with the scale of over 10 billion cubic meters and the second largest high sour gas purifying plant in the world in 3 years. Meanwhile, it has summarized a complete management mode for developing domestic high-sour gas fields and formed the supporting technologies and specifications for developing high sulfur content gas reservoirs safely and effectively, which has important popularizing and guiding meaning on developing similar gas fields.
As an inevitable product of the sustainable development of national social-economy, high-speed rail and its stations will undoubtedly facilitate the forming and development of regional economy integration process as well as metropolis, thus stimulating and supporting the socio-economic development. High-speed rail has ushered in a new era of great opportunities since the Sixteenth National Congress with 139 new stations for high-speed rail completed by March 2011, like Beijing South Station, Wuhan Station, Guangzhou South Station, Shanghai Hongqiao Station and etc. The paper analyzes the interaction between high-speed rail station and social-economy and proposes the project and project portfolio dynamic interactive model and management theory taking social-economic development evolving regularities as its guiding strategy, offering theoretical basis for formulating the strategic goal system of high-speed rail station projects as well as program and single project management.
China's aerospace project quality management is guided by Dr. Qian Xuesen’s system engineering theory. Based on the principle of “adherence, perfect and development”, driven by the major engineering projects, the theory and management innovation of aerospace project quality management has been continuously developed. Since the “11th Five-Year Plan”, CASC has been implemented aerospace project meticulous quality management to ensure the success of a series of major aerospace projects, such as China’s manned aerospace project , Chang’e project, etc. The meticulous quality management puts the emphasis on improving the capabilities of overall design improvement, system optimization, effectively identification and control of the technical risk, fast focusing, and amplifying and quantizing control capability of key details; highlights the effective integration and operation of organizational quality management system and project product assurance system; focuses on the development and application of the practical management tools and the synchronous improvement of technology, product, team and management maturity. This paper briefly reviewed the history of the development of quality management in aerospace industry, and proposed the concept and content meticulous quality management, and discusses the meticulous quality management theoretical basis, methods, work systems and the main approaches.
Shenhua heavy haul railway engineering based on its own actual needs, committed to research and develop whole sets of heavy haul railway technology, and focused on launching engineering technology innovation mainly about three aspects: the railway engineering construction technology, heavy-load transportation technology, construction and operation management technology. Series of technology innovation impelled Shenhua Group to master the core technology of overloaded railway as soon as possible, promoted enterprise’s development, and remarkable social benefits and economic benefits had been achieved as well. Shenhua group oriented system for heavy haul railway technological innovation, in which enterprises played the leading role, aiming at market demands, and combined the efforts of enterprises, universities and research institutes, and pursued scientific research project by engineering means.
Starting with the characteristics of technological R & D and project application in power generating companies, this paper expounds on the theoretical analysis and organizational methods of turning R & D results into productive force in major equipment. Faced with the widespread problem that putting R & D results into application is both lengthy and difficult, the author proposes the mechanism of "joint work among industry, college, research institute and user under the users' leadership"; puts forth the thought for major equipment R & D management that features "oriented by commercialization of demonstration project, premised on the responsibility system for project management, unite advantageous parties nationwide to make joint efforts with enterprises taking the overall responsibility and research institutes providing support," and explores the mode to promote R & D results with "R & D and promotion in parallel". In this paper, two case studies are used to illustrate the effects of such a management mode of scientific researches. "Ultra super-critical coal-fired power generation technology" is widely applied to power development, and has become the priority choice in newly built large coal-fired power plants in China.The project named "R & D and project demonstration of air-cooling system in thermal units" solves the water-saving issue of power plants in northern China. The problems in the ownership of research results, reward application and result ratification were analyzed, and some corresponding suggestions were put forward.
Advanced experiences from developed countries were adopted by Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences when seeking for the solutions on expanding production and promoting transformation of agricultural production mode across the province.Methods and means on system engineering were applied by the academy, which played a leading role in implementation of agricultural science and technology innovation projects and technological transformation projects as well as promoting engineering agriculture. Not only was a fundamental change in agricultural development enhanced, but also was a practical and effective way on modern agriculture development revealed. Rate of agricultural scientific and technological achievements was raised from 30 % in 2003 to 70 % in 2010; coverage of improved varieties increased from 90 % to 98 %; agricultural science and technology contribution rate climbed from 48.5 % to 59.5 %; food production increased from 25.1 25 billion kg to 50.13 billion kg, accounting for 1/10 of total grain output and commodity rate accounting for 1/3 of the total amount of food in China, which was a significant contribution in national food security.
Based on summary of practical experience on teams and talents construction, the technologies and equipment construction, some effective measures of increasing the success rate and reducing mortality rescue in disaster relief process were discussed to promote the development of China's rescue career.
The characteristics and the present situation of significant construction project technological innovation are analyzed in this paper. The core problem restricting significant construction project technological innovation is dissected. The basic framework of significant construction project-oriented technological innovation network is set up. Then the starting point, evolution path and integration method are analyzed. And the dynamic mechanism, the collaborative mechanism and the learning mechanism are discussed,which can provide useful theoretic reference to establish the new inter-organization coordinated technological innovation mode, and to improve the technological innovation efficiency of significant construction project.
Metro construction safety is affected by many factors,such as engineering geology condition, nearby buildings and engineering design plan, etc.This paper proposes a dashboard tool based on 3D models to control the safety of metro construction. Risk activities and current safety status of the construction can be identified and shown via this dashboard. It can help project managers to figure out the safety status of the construction and risk activities intuitively and timely which improves safety management in metro construction.
This paper describes the cross research field among management, decision theory and information science——engineering management entropy research. Firstly, the necessity and scientificity are discussed. Then its theoretical basis, methods and models are explained. Especially, the complex entropy decision making method, group decision making entropy model and multivariate coupled decision-making entropy method are described. Finally, the engineering management application cases are given, which prove that the proposed engineering management decision model based on entropy can effectively solve some key decision-making problems in practical engineering management.
The service supply chain consisting of one service vendor (SV) and one service integrator (SI) was studied. The service vendor supplies original service productions or activities to the SI that in turn sells the value-add integration service to customers. Customer service request volume has characterized by a price-sensitive random request volume under market environment. In this paper, we developed information sharing and performance of service supply chain between SV and SI. We tried to explore the information sharing in service supply chain which was classified into different information flows. The supply chain performance based on three different types of information transferring scenario was evaluated. The findings reinforced the importance of information sharing coordination and performance to companies. At last, future research direction was pointed out.
In the knowledge economy era, enterprises begin to realize that the most valuable property is knowledge. Knowledge is not only the key element of production, but also an important means for enterprises to maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. Effectively implementing the knowledge management system should be guided by the correct principles. It is necessary to establish proper organizational structure and business culture for knowledge sharing; meanwhile, during the understanding and implementation of knowledge management, 5 principles of accumulation, trust, sharing, communication and learning must be adhered to. The goal of knowledge management for the organization is to achieve the overall development strategy, hence the knowledge sharing process must make the realization of organizational strategic objective as the prerequisite. The selection of sharing knowledge, building knowledge sharing platform and storage management unit, leading knowledge exchange and implementing incentive policies should be emphasized.
Based on the concept of sustainable development, the thoughtway of engineering philosophy is adopted to explore the decision-making problems of giant projects. It is proposed to use new ideas and new ways to solve complex giant projects decision-making, and a model of giant projects decision-making is built, the main contents of which are "Three Core Principles" of giant projects decision-making, that is, whether the project could last as long as possible, whether the project could make any dramatic change to the development of the society and whether the project could bring any benefit to the public and social development.
The combination of both function coefficient method and logframe approach was employed to construct the performance evaluation index system of coordinated management of construction projects. The evaluation index system of coordinated management of construction projects was constructed from four aspects, including performance evaluation of target coordinated management, organization coordinated management, interest party coordinated management, and sustainable development of project and organization. In addition, the way was given to calculate the comprehensive performance evaluation coefficient of coordinated management of construction projects, quantifying the evaluation of the performance of the coordinated management of construction projects. In the end, the method to construct index system and calculate the coefficient was proved by an empirical study. This method can judge the function of coordinated management of construction projects efficiently.
In recent years, the green BIM(building information model) has caught the attention of the U.S. and other developed countries in the field of construction, and most of the projects that use Green BIM technology have already achieved good effect which combines sustainability with economy. Although there are still many problems in Green BIM practice, green BIM has become the inevitable trend of construction. Based on the application situation of green BIM in the U.S., this article analyzes its influence on construction field in China. In the author’s opinion, compared with green BIM in America, green BIM in China starts so late that there is a huge gap in technology between the two countries. In the process of development, China should fully absorb the practical experience of green BIM in America and combine the characteristics of construction field in China to form a proper green BIM operation process which accords with the situation of China. It is proposed that more attention should be paid to Green BIM application in different types of project and in the choice of building product material and renewable energy. Meanwhile, technical localization should be strengthened and government should invest more in it to promote the development of green building and achieve the goals of energy saving and emission reduction.