GENG6830 - Project Management Assignment Engineering Project Management Due by Midnight, Friday 5th May 2017 This is an individual assessment. Installing an Assembly Line of Packaging Machines This assessment has been developed to provide enough information to enable development of a project plan. In the planning stage, you are required to determine tasks, some durations, predecessors and allocate resources. The Scenario: You have been asked to plan a project for the internal installation and implementation of an assembly line of X new plastic injection machines ($80000= each) and Y new drilling machines ($8500= each) using the company existing personnel. The requirements are: s Ordering the machines s Unpack the imported pre-ready machines for installation s Lay the machine foundations s Lay electrical cabling s Installation s Connect the machine to power supply s Commissioning NOTE: Where X and Y correspond to your student number’s last digit and your student number’s second last digit respectively. In the case that any of the digits is zero, just take the one that is not zero as the value for X and Y. If both are zero, then take 5 as the value for X and Y. The project is planned to start on, Monday 8th May 2017. THE EXPECTED DURATION OF THE PROJECT IS NO LONGER THAN 85 DAYS. The schedule will be based on a standard 40-hour working week.Your project planning should allow for: s Management’s Approval of project (allow 3 days, 3 hours cost) - Manager s Machines have to be ordered (1 day, 6 hours cost) – Technical manager. s Management’s Approval of installation project (allow 5 days, 2 hours cost) - Manager. s Order necessary equipment, Electrical cables, cement, etc. costing $5700= (allow a lead-time of 3 weeks – 21 days, 4 hours cost) – Technical manager. s Allow 7 days for foundations to harden – Technical Assistants and fitter take 1 day doing this. s Allow 3 days for cabling work for all machines - Electrician. s Allow ½ a day unpacking per machine – Technical Assistant. s An injection machine is estimated to take 2 days to be installed by two people – A Technical Assistant and a Fitter s A drilling machine is estimated to take 4 days to be installed by two people – A Technical Assistant and a Fitter. s Testing each injection machine is estimated to take 4 hours (½ a day) each – One Technical Assistant. s Testing each drilling machine is estimated to take 6 hours each - One Technical Assistant. The company's resources are as follows: K. Tan - Manager $50/hr J. Wilson - Technical Manager $45/hr T. Gunther - Chief Accountant $35/hr T. McMaster - Electrician $30/hr B. Farmer - Fitter $25/hr B. Picossi - Technical Assistant #1 $20/hr B. Barnes - Technical Assistant #2 $20/hr You need to take the following into account: s Electricians can only work on the installation during weekends so as to not interrupt power supply (rate of labour per hour on weekends is 1.25) s Two people are required to install a machine (a fitter and a technical assistant). s At midpoint of the installation program, an injection machine is found to be damaged with spare parts taking 5 days to arrive. s At a time when the fitter is working on a task assigned to him, he falls ill and is away for 6 days.You are required to submit: s A WBS for the project including personnel costs. It could be one of: o If you manage the project using any project management software like ProjectLibre, the one it supplies can be submitted, o A graphic done in any graphical software adding the personnel cost. s A Dependency Matrix of the project. s AOA Network identifying times and Critical Path according to the ways explained in class. s A Gantt Chart which includes the baseline and an S-Curve for execution (it means there are two Gantt charts in one: a "plan" one and a "real" one). It could be one of: o If you manage the project using any project management software like ProjectLibre, the one it supplies can be submitted, plus the S-Curve in Excel, or o Two Gantt charts produced in MS Excel. s Apply the EVM technique by calculating and EXPLAINING all results given that: o We have already completed the 90 days of the project, o The total budget for the project was $18000= plus the machines cost, o The current amount of money spent in the project, W, is calculated with the following equation: 𝐠= 𝐵𝐵𝐠𝐠+ 𝐠+ 𝐵𝐵𝐍 o One drilling machine and one injection machine are still to be installed and tested. Marking Schema Objectives Total Points Presentation & Assumptions 5 Dependency Matrix 7 WBS 8 AOA 20 GANTT Chart 20 S-Curve 15 EVM 25 PLEASE NOTE: A) The above is all of the information that you will be provided with concerning this task. B) The information is not necessarily complete and may therefore require you to make assumptions, if you do, then STATE THEM CLEARLY AND SUPPORT THEM. C) Please prepare your submission in the same way that you would like to receive it if you were a manager. You must submit a report as if it was to be given to your boss in a company. D) ProjectLibre is a free resource available for you to download.About the submission: In order to submit, follow the link in the assessment menu in Blackboard. Assignment Cover Sheets (ACSs) is available electronically (Blackboard). A completed and signed paper ACS must accompany all assignment submissions. Any assessment items received after the due date will attract a penalty of 10% of available marks for each calendar day overdue. A block extension to a due date will only be granted in very exceptional circumstances (see details - SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES AFFECTING ASSESSMENT ITEMS). The marks will be available in Blackboard. Any question about the marking, write/talk to your course coordinator. Cesar Sanin -2017