Project Management Research Of A New Model Vehicle Quality

In recent years, the development of China’s automotive industry is extremely fast,with sustained and rapid growth both in production and sales. China has become themost important automotive markets in the world, occupies an extremely importantposition. Since the international automobile giants have set up joint ventures in China,they are introducing a large number of new models to consumers, also bringing in lotsof advanced technologies and management concepts.Project management is one of the major new management techniques, whichbegan from the end of World War II&gradually developed later. Now it has becomean important management tool for company. It was only used in few areas such asconstruction, defense and aerospace at the beginning&now is widely used incomputers, electronic communications, the financial industry and even governmentagencies etc. The automotive industry is also one of these areas with no exception. Intotal, there are nine knowledge areas in Project management, which are: ProjectIntegration Management, Project Scope Management, Project Time Management,Project Cost Management, Project Quality Management, Project Human ResourceManagement, Project Communication Management, Project Risk Management andProject Procurement Management.According to a specific new model program, analyze how to apply PMknowledge to do quality job firmly and effectively, to ensure the program will launchwithin the scope of time&cost, also with expected high-quality.This specific program fully applied the Product Development Process of itsparent company. Guidelines&requirements for every single work are captured in theProcess. For quality, all areas like parts, Body, Paint, Trim Chassis Final are included.By focusing on Squeak&Rattle Test, Global Ford Consumer Product Audit, Voice ofCustomer Fleet and Automated Issues Management System, all nine knowledge areasof Project management will be studied one by one. With brief introduction and lessons learned through this article, hoping someinspiration and reference of project management skills on quality job will be usefulduring further new model launch.