Engineering Projects Real-Time Supervision Mechanism Based on Grid Management

doi:10.1007/s12204-014-1531-5

Abstract

Abstract: This paper proposes an innovative supervision method that can provide project supervisors with realtime supervision of engineering projects and contractor activity. To obtain real-time and comprehensive state of project, we use grid management to divide the project supervision grid in three levels: stage, objective, and milestone. Then, a detailed supervision mechanism is designed to help supervisors measure the project situation in real time. This mechanism checks that if the project objectives (such as schedule, cost, quality, and safety) in every supervision grid cell are under the healthy limits, any project deviation can be identified as soon as possible. A schedule objective is selected as an example to illustrate the method used to calculate the healthy limit.

Key words: real-time supervision| grid management| healthy limit| engineering project management

摘要： This paper proposes an innovative supervision method that can provide project supervisors with realtime supervision of engineering projects and contractor activity. To obtain real-time and comprehensive state of project, we use grid management to divide the project supervision grid in three levels: stage, objective, and milestone. Then, a detailed supervision mechanism is designed to help supervisors measure the project situation in real time. This mechanism checks that if the project objectives (such as schedule, cost, quality, and safety) in every supervision grid cell are under the healthy limits, any project deviation can be identified as soon as possible. A schedule objective is selected as an example to illustrate the method used to calculate the healthy limit.

关键词: real-time supervision| grid management| healthy limit| engineering project management

CLC Number:

TU 71

WU Yun-na (乌云娜), DONG He-yun* (董鹤云), ZHANG Hao-bo (张昊渤), ZHANG Jin-ying (张金颖). Engineering Projects Real-Time Supervision Mechanism Based on Grid Management[J]. Journal of shanghai Jiaotong University (Science), 2014, 19(4): 502-507.

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