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How to coordinate resources in a production company with distributed facilities
Imagine a business project involving the engineering department, production, administration and an overseas branch. The engineering department works standard shifts, production works three shifts, administration works reduced hours on Fridays, and the branch observes different public holidays. How do you calculate actual lead times? How do you know if a resource is actually available when…
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Capacity planning: is your team ready for another project?
Capacity planning is a key tool for addressing a critical question: How many times have you celebrated landing a new client or getting the green light on a new internal project, only to realize soon that no one knows who will actually work on it? The excitement of the moment gives way to the harsh…
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Too many departments, too much going on: how to structure complex projects in production companies
In a production company, a complex project is never the responsibility of just one department. Design, procurement, production, logistics, quality: each phase involves different skills, different timelines, and different people in charge. When the structure isn’t clear from the start, the team’s energy is scattered, and problems always seem to arise at the worst possible…
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Job order management: on-schedule and on-budget
Job order management is the process that helps people working on unique, one-time projects know, at any given moment, whether a job order is on schedule and within budget—not just after completion, when any corrections would happen too late. For a company that lives on projects—such as a plant contractor, a construction site, or an…
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Project dashboard for production companies: gain visibility into every operational project
In production companies, projects cannot wait. A delayed order, an overloaded employee, a cost that exceeds the budget: in short, any problem that is identified too late costs twice as much, in both time and money. And yet, in many organisations, monitoring is still carried out retrospectively: weekly update meetings, Mixed tools and management systems…
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Dependencies between tasks: how to map them and prevent roadblocks
Dependencies between tasks are the invisible thread that ties every project plan together: when they aren’t mapped correctly, a delay in a single task can bring the rest of the work to a halt. For project managers in the manufacturing industry, where a stalled production line literally eats up money every minute, this problem isn’t…
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Staying within budget: the approach taken by the most efficient production companies
Ask any production manager at a manufacturing company what one of the most frustrating problems is when managing projects, and the answer will almost always be the same: the actual costs only show up too late. It is only when the project has already been completed — or worse, when the client has already received…
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New Twproject Release – My Weekly Workspace: plan and manage your working week
We’re delighted to introduce you to one of the most eagerly awaited and practical new features we’ve added to Twproject recently: My Weekly Workspace, a feature that radically transforms the way you plan and view your working week directly in the Agenda. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by your to-do list, found yourself unable to…
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Cost performance index: how to calculate and optimize it
The cost-performance index (CPI) is one of the most straightforward indicators for judging whether a project is spending its budget efficiently. Nothing matters more than this metric in project engineering, where EPC jobs, plants, and infrastructure depend on cost control for their success or failure. CONTENT What is the cost-performance index, and why is it…
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Joint Work: how to avoid confusion and redundancy
Joint work among multiple people, teams, or departments is now a standard in many businesses, but when it isn’t managed properly, it is one of the main sources of inefficiency: tasks done twice, scattered information, and unclear responsibilities. The challenge is most evident in marketing agencies, where multiple team members – often in-house, freelance, or…
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How to improve management control activities in your business
Management control is often seen as a merely accounting process, something to deal with at the end of the month or quarter to make sure the numbers add up. In reality, when properly set up, it becomes one of the most powerful tools managers have for navigating business strategies and keeping their company on track…
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How to best manage a team under pressure
Knowing how to best manage a team when the pressure mounts is one of the most sought-after (and least taught) skills in project management. Tight deadlines, unexpected events, and client requests that change mid-project: pressure is often unavoidable, but how a manager deals with it dictates whether it becomes a productive force or a threat…
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Fragmented IT project management: how to deal with it in 5 Steps
Fragmented IT project management has only one outcome: wasted effort, avoidable delays, and teams that never get the full picture. Excel spreadsheets in different versions, fragmented chats and emails, and ticketing tools disconnected from the project plan—this is the daily scenario for many departments. Fortunately, this is a solvable problem—with the right approach and the…