Catch-Up Time!
Project Managers – do you have plans for the weekend. Wait! Are you planning to work Sunday morning to “catch up?” Again? Work instructions on the project you just wrapped up? Wordsmithing the capital request docs on the next project? (CER, AFE, etc.) Making a project schedule in Excel or MS Project? Doing that Operational…
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“It’s not the Same” or “Go see”
One rookie project manager mistake is deciding you don’t need to check something yourself. I started one project engineer job years ago and took over a project on a plastic compounding line. The folks before me had already ordered a screen changer and melt pump. “We ordered the same thing this other line has so…
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Where’s your pain?
Project Engineers and Project Managers in Manufacturing – Where’s your pain? If you do installation/upgrade projects in a manufacturing environment, it can feel like there’s never enough time. You rarely get to start one project and stick with it until it’s done—more likely, you have multiple projects going simultaneously, each in a different phase. You…
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Project Scheduling
What’s your success rate on capital projects? Usually on time? On budget? If you commit to a Total Installed Cost (TIC) of $450k and a line downtime (DT) of 22 days, do you make it? What’s the over/under bet the Maintenance guys have running? 30 days? My project experience is mostly in manufacturing: new equipment,…
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Why Documentation?
What do I mean by documentation and why is it important to a manufacturing organization? Let’s look at two categories of documentation: project execution documentation and existing plant documentation. Project execution documents:Pre-Project (Proposal and Scope) phaseSome of the documents done in this phase are more important than others. Funding Request or Capital Expenditure (CapEx) docs…
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Why Bridge?
Why Bridge? Why Bridge Technical Services? Why start a company now? I’ve worked in manufacturing for 30 years now in various roles: electrical engineer, manufacturing engineer, HSE manager, and project engineer. Because those roles have all been in manufacturing, each required multiple skill sets, including engineering, field service, phone service, programming, developing and presenting training,…
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