Project Management For Factory Transplant

The Assembly Plant was located in the downtown of Shanghai. It was restricted too much by the circumstances factors and impossible to enlarge spaces. Further more, the existing layout was made in 1980's. It cannot suit the requirements of modern logistic and production. For change this kind of the status, Shanghai Cosmopolitan Automobile Accessory Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as"SCAAC") decided to transplant the Assembly Plant totally.Transplanting the Assembly Plant is a huge project, so it will be hard finished by using normal management. To use the project management method may have good effects on cost control, schedule control, coordination and optimization. Since such a method is quite mature in theory, so it is suitable for our corporation. The project management mainly solves the issues as follow: 1) Controlling the moving cost. It includes the expenses of building, purchasing new equipment, moving equipment, adjusting equipment and so on. The target is to save cost. 2) Controlling and coordinating the schedule. It includes the schedules of the building, the purchase progress of new equipment, the existing equipment moving, and the production plan during the transplant period. The target is to ensure the project can be completed as soon as possible. So it will not affect the customer's production so as SVW and SGM. 3) Optimizing the production line layout. It will maximize the labor productivity, the equipment-utilization rate, and the logistic efficiency, and reduce the quantity of work-in-process. So it will reduce the production cost, promote the competition capability of the Assembly Plant and benefit for the development of the automobile accessory trade. By using the method of project management with work structure breakdown, work time estimate, Gantt chart, project network, critical path method, network time parameter calculation, and so on, this factory transplant project was successfully accomplished. All the requirements are achieved and the original plan is exceeded. The project has got the giant success. Because of the project involved almost everything, this thesis just describes that using the methods of project management to control and coordinate the cost, the schedule and the optimization overall arrangement of the Assembly Plant during its transplant. SCAAC never has the experience of using the project management in transplant project, so there is innovation significance in company's management. The success of this project not only achieves its original target, but also promotes the management level of SCAAC. By doing this project, we have trained a team of project management and given the confidence of generalizing project management to the top management of SCAAC. It will promote SCAAC managers to think about much more of project management and bring more and more projects into contact with this method. Then SCAAC will make the management go ahead a new step. By then, this thesis will be the instructor of project management. It will benefit for the whole company's projects and improve the company's competition capability.