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Improvement of Industrialization Projects Management: An Automotive Industry Case Study

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Nowadays, in response to the technological evolution of the markets, organizations need to effectively improve their product development process. The product development can be seen as a global project where the industrialization project is a subproject of the product development project. The use of an integrated project management process helps to ensure projects completion according to the schedule plan and to keep the cost inside the budget and the quality with acceptable standards. The main objective of this research was the improvement of the project management practices in industrialization projects in a company of the automotive sector. An integrated project management process was developed and key project management tools and techniques were proposed, considering the project organizational context. The stakeholders who participated in this research study perceived that improvements proposed will be an added value to the company, however, due to the time constraints, it was not possible to test and quantify the real benefits of the proposed improvements on the management of industrialization projects.

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This work has been supported by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2019.

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  1. Production and Systems Department/Centre ALGORITMI, University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4804-533, Guimarães, Portugal

    Diana Fernandes, Anabela Tereso & Gabriela Fernandes

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  1. Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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  2. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. Faculdade de Engenharia/LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

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  4. DIMES, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

    Sandra Costanzo

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Fernandes, D., Tereso, A., Fernandes, G. (2019). Improvement of Industrialization Projects Management: An Automotive Industry Case Study. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST'19 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 930. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16181-1_11

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