Business Strategies and Approaches for Effective Engineering Management

Business Strategies and Approaches for Effective Engineering Management

Saqib Saeed, Mohammad Ayoub Khan, Rizwan Ahmad

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 369

ISBN13: 9781466636583|ISBN10: 1466636580|EISBN13: 9781466636590

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3658-3

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Successful engineering projects require a clear vision and long term strategy. Therefore, effective business initiatives have been applied to the engineering environment in order to enhance its management perspectives.

Business Strategies and Approaches for Effective Engineering Management brings together the latest methodologies, principles, practices, and tools for engineering management. By providing theoretical analysis and practical applications, this book is a useful reference for industry experts, researchers, and academicians regarding progressive strategies for successful management.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Chapters

Process Management

Chapter 1

Order Release Strategies for Customer Order Scheduling Problems in Dynamic Environments (pages 1-21)

Paolo Renna

The research proposes two strategies to release the parts in a job shop environment to handle the customer order-scheduling problem. The first strategy is based on the evaluation of a dynamic conwip level to take the decision. The...

Chapter 2

Managing Organizational Change (pages 22-47)

Martin L. Bariff

Many project deliverables extend beyond a product or a service for sale to customers. The deliverable may include a new or a revised process for internal workflow or relations with customers, suppliers, or partners. The success of...

Chapter 3

Green Process Management using Six Sigma Concepts (pages 48-61)

Seifedine Kadry

The Six Sigma () methodology, as it has evolved over the last two decades, provides a proven framework for problem solving and organizational leadership and enables leaders and practitioners to employ new ways of understanding and...

Chapter 4

New Product Development: Challenges and Implications (pages 62-83)

Hassanali Rassouli

Intensive global competition of 21st century calls for a systematically aligned set of approaches in all aspects of corporate management including new product development. Success of new products needs the strategic support of...

Chapter 5

Supply Chain Analysis (pages 84-96)

Mohammad Anwar Rahman

This chapter focuses on supply chain strategies that benefit organizations to meet the global challenges and business success. The chapter supports understanding of functional coordination in supply chain management, importance of...

Chapter 6

Intellectual Property Rights in Semi-Conductor Industries: An Indian Perspective (pages 97-110)

Satish Chandra Tiwari, Maneesha Gupta, Mohammad Ayoub Khan, A. Q. Ansari

Fundamentals of intellectual property rights are provided. In addition, the trends of patenting and patented technologies in India in different areas of semi-conductor technologies are analyzed. The authors discuss many aspects of...

Chapter 7

Defect Trend Analysis of MI-172 Helicopters through Maintenance History (pages 111-126)

Mudassir Hussain, Irfan Anjum Manarvi, Assad Iqbal

MI-172 helicopters are a variant of MI-17/171 helicopters. These helicopters were inducted in the organization, which was originally designed and tuned to the MI-17/171 series helicopters. Since the induction was not premeditated, it...

Project Management

Chapter 8

Component Failure Analysis of J69-T-25A Engine (pages 128-141)

Muhammad Asim Qazi, Irfan Manarvi, Assad Iqbal

Reliability and serviceability of jet engines in the aviation industry is of paramount importance and is directly related to flight safety. Tight maintenance programs, including scheduled and preventive inspection are in place...

Chapter 9

Lean Development: A Tool for Knowledge Management in Software Development Process (pages 142-150)

Saqib Saeed, Izzat Alsmadi, Farrukh Masood Khawaja

Software development is a complex activity, which is human intensive in nature. In order to build quality software systems, organizations need to follow mature software development practices, which are continually improved. As a...

Chapter 10

Management Practices in Exploration and Production Industry (pages 151-187)

Kashif Saeed, Georg Ziegler, Muhammad Kashif Yaqoob

This chapter is divided into three main sections; project management, HSE management, and quality management. A focus description of the different elements of exploration and production industry along with implementation of...

Chapter 11

Reasons Behind IT Project Failure: The Case of Jordan (pages 188-202)

Emad Abu-Shanab, Ashraf Al-Saggar

Information Technology (IT) projects have high failure and escalation rates because of the nature of domain and the rapid technology changes. It is important to understand the factors causing IT project success or failure. This...

Chapter 12

Issues and Technologies of Effective Energy Management (pages 203-218)

Edward T. Chen

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss critical issues and the role technology plays in today’s energy sectors. Specific emphasis is placed on security, mobile dispatch solutions, and the so-called “Smart Grid.” The industry...

Chapter 13

An Examination of the Decision Making Styles of Egyptian Managers (pages 219-236)

Hisham M. Abdelsalam, Reem H. Dawoud, Hatem A. ElKadi

Many factors play roles in the success of managers. However, the manager’s decision-making style is one factor that highly contributes to that success and, therefore, to the success of their organization. In this chapter, a survey...

Chapter 14

Identification of Major FOD Contributors in Aviation Industry (pages 237-250)

Hammad Ahmed Rafiq, Irfan Anjum Manarvi, Assad Iqbal

Aviation safety is considered of paramount importance, and the Foreign Object Debris and the resulting Foreign Object Damage (FOD) is one of the major causes that put aviation safety at risk. FOD Prevention is thus a continual...

Technology Management

Chapter 15

Media Management in Disaster Events: A Case Study of a Japanese Earthquake (pages 252-261)

Eleonora Benecchi, Vincenzo De Masi

According to a survey by Goo Research (April 2011), the average Japanese person appears to have relied primarily on television news for gathering information in times of disaster, and as unlike a lot of overseas media, the public...

Chapter 16

The Impact of Virtual Community (Web 2.0) in the Economic, Social, and Political Environment of Traditional Society (pages 262-274)

Irene Samanta

The chapter enhances the scientific research in the area of ??the new digital era with a focus on diversity created in real society from the influence of social media. Specifically, it reveals the effects of social media on economic...

Chapter 17

Website Performance Measurement: Process and Product Metrics (pages 275-301)

Izzat Alsmadi

Some tasks will be easier to implement and test, and others will either be un-applicable or difficult to test and implement in comparison with testing in traditional software development environments. For engineering management...

Chapter 18

Measuring the Conceptual Variables for E-Services Acceptance: a Descriptive Statistical Analysis (pages 302-309)

Kamaljeet Sandhu

This case study examines the Web Electronic Service framework for a University in Australia. The department is in the process of developing and implementing a Web-based e-service system. The user experience to use e-services requires...

Chapter 19

Empirical Analysis for E-Services Acceptance Model: Important Findings (pages 310-322)

Kamaljeet Sandhu

This study investigates factors that influence the acceptance and use of e-Services. The research model includes factors such as user experience, user motivation, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use in explaining the...

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