Managing schedule, cost, and quality

As is the case of schedule management, there are any number of software packages and systems to provide management reporting for cost control, and since this is regarded as a discipline in itself the subject will not be pursued in depth. The essence of any system is the breakdown of the project expenditure into a sufficient and appropriate number of components, which are tailored to enable the manager to get information on cost trends in time to take corrective action. 

There is another aspect of engineering cost management, which is the cost of the engineering itself The control system is the same as for 

Last but not least of the management fundamentals is engineering quality management. 

The detailed plaiming of engineering quality management is a matter of procedures deciding what checks, reviews, and audits will be made, how they will be made, and when they will be made. The quality system may have to comply with the requirements of standards such as the IS09000 series, or the plant owner s stipulations. A few general principles to bear in mind are the following. 

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