Monitoring and Controlling the Project

These features help the learner to improve the pronunciation and the communication skills. Drawing and handwriting fxmctionalities make the virtual tool closer to the real teaching process, they allow the tutor to present the educational content like he/ she does in the classroom. A project section is developjed in order to allow the students to work as a team during the project development pjeiiod of time. The project supervisor monitors and controls the project development, views the students activities and provides each student with an objective feedback based on the student s performed tasks. 

The project workplan and budget (see Section 5) are used as the basis for project monitoring and control. The three main purposes of project monitoring and control are to ... 

This is an innovative structure which has similar advantages to a matrix structure but it is much easier and less costly to operate. Task activities are divided along product or project hues to reduce bureaucratic costs and to increase management s ability to monitor and control the manufacturing process. Functional specialists are organized into cross-functional teams on... 

Thus the extension/modification of an existing plant calls for meticulous attention to detail in pre-planning, in execution and in completion. Written procedures for all phases must be prepared well in advance and accepted by those concerned. The necessary staff, in particular in the engineering disciplines, must be available on site for monitoring and control. The respective responsibilities of EPCM contractor and owner have to be defined especially for construction completion, turnover and commissioning. Finally the project organization... 

The philosophy of the project is that advanced gas cleaning equipment should be continuously monitored and controlled. The dust loading presented to the equipment varies enormously during a continuous process and optimal performance conpled with certainty can only be obtained with an instrumented and controlled plant. 

Provide an informative management tool for the monitoring and control of progress, including the effect of changing circumstances that so often occur in the form of extended delivery time scales, revised requirements and new external constraints on the project completion date. 

One industrial facility that has done exhaust system retrofit is the Eldec Corporation, an aerospace electronic manufacturer. With the help of the local utility, Eldec implemented a control project to reduce exhaust air by up to 30% for the first shift and 60% for the rest of the time and achieved great savings with one year simple payback. The project closed the exhaust inlets with dampers and controlled the exhaust fan speeds with variable frequency drives (VFD). The exhaust fans are now monitored and controlled by the building direct digital controls (DDC) system to ensure proper operation and save energy. 

Risk management should be central to the planning, budgeting, and acquisition process. Failure to analyze and manage the inherent risk in all capital asset acquisitions may contribute to cost overruns, schedule shortfalls, and acquisitions that fail to perform as expected. For each major capital project, a risk analysis that includes how risks will be isolated, minimized, monitored, and controlled may help prevent these problems. 

Broader issues also should be considered. One is the severity and impact of the effect and how easy it would be to monitor and reverse the toxicity in clinical trials. The therapeutic indication is important, particularly when assessing if the toxicity is tolerable for the disease indication. For example, a low-grade toxicity may be acceptable as a side effect of a cancer drug, yet it may be completely intolerable with a drug designed to control obesity. More broadly, the company s overall portfolio balance and how much risk the company is prepared to accept for the particular project come to bear on decision making. 

Figure 11. Prototypes of the cUAV as developed in the AMOTH project, a) Indoor cUAV measures about 1.2 m x 0.6 m and is equipped with 4 propellers, 2 cameras and a chemo-sensor array, b) An outdoor cUAV on a nocturnal chemical search mission. This model measures about 4 m x 1 m and has a similar sensorium as the indoor model. Both systems have energy autonomy of over 1 hour and provide full wireless communication, monitoring and control.

The fuel cell-powered scooter project has provided valuable insights into fuel cell operation under real-world conditions as well as monitoring and control strategies to maximize power and efficiency. The electronics developed for the project have found dual use with other fuel cell testing systems. Additionally, the fuel cell-powered scooter has proven valuable as a way to illustrate and demystify fuel cell systems, and as a public relations tool to promote alternative energy research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 

Ricardo Hernandez, graduated in 2003 with a degree in physics at the University of Zaragoza (Zaragoza, Spain), is currently a PhD student there and works in the Laboratory of Research on Combustion Technologies. He works on research of advanced monitoring and control of industrial flames and combustion instabilities, has participated in some research projects and is co-author of several papers in international journals and conferences. 

Templates or models of life cycles are useful for project management. When each phase is terminated with one or more completed documentable deliverables, the project-life cycle model is a simple yet very effective tool for monitoring and control of the project throughout its entire life cycle. 

These processes are designed to evaluate the possible risk events that might influence the project and integrate proper measures to handle uncertainty in the project-planning monitoring and control activities. 

An important element of project monitoring and control is the organization that is put in place to support it. Typically the project-implementation structure consists of at least two entities the project steering committee and the project office. 

An IDS is composed of several components Sensors which generate security events, a Console to monitor events and alerts and control the sensors, and a central Engine that records events clogged by the sensors in a database and uses a system of rules to generate alerts from security events received. An IDS also is a large and complicated project. Now, there are yet many weaknesses in IDS, it should be improved. 

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