Industrial Risks
This is the best response to a hazard
What is eliminate it?
This is what we call taking 2 project activities in series and rescheduling them to be in parallel.
What is Fast Tracking?
The number one reason why project managers get into conflicts in the private sector workplace is this.
What are scheduling conflicts?
This man loaned his name to what we might otherwise call the common industrial timeline.
Who is Henry Gantt?
Three Emergency Stops
What is the number of Emergency stops in our shop training room?
To make a DFMEA, estimate these 3 things on a scale of 1-10 for each of the reasonable risks on your project.
What are likelihood, severity, and detectability?
This is how much slack time we want to include on the critical path of our project.
What is no slack time?
Confront, Compromise, Smooth, Avoid, Force.
These are the potential strategies for settling conflicts on your project team.
This is a point in time indicator that has no budget and no time directly associated to it.
What is a milestone?
At the intersection of business, technology, and the humanities.
Where do we find project management skills?
Share, Transfer, Avoid, Mitigate, Accept.
What are the strategies available for dealing with risk?
Eliminate Tasks
Overlap parallel activities
Shorten the longest tasks
Shorten the easiest tasks.
What are things that can be optimized on the critical path of a project?
In the university setting, we really like meetings, but in the private sector workplace, we can at times discourage attendance to meetings because of this.
What is Meetings are expensive?
Before calling the schedule complete, we must check that we will have enough of these when we expect to use them.
What are resources?
(We will accept people, equipment, materials, but really it pertains to all of them)
This parametric modelling program may allow you to make 3D printed parts for your studio project at some point this semester.
What is Onshape?
When no analysis is applied it is called ignoring a risk, but when analysis has been applied and still the preferred action is to do nothing, it is referred to as this type of risk response.
What is accepting a risk?
This activity, which by definition helps us acquire new skills, can be critical in helping us get our project back on track.
What is training?
Two processes that facilitate miscommunication among people.
What are encoding and decoding?
If we have followed up on all our most critical items on the project, we will next look into how these activities are going.
What are sensitive activities?
Temporary, unique, with a defined start, a defined finish, a defined budget, produces a good or service as its product, and is progressively elaborated upon as it progresses.
What is a project?
If you bypass the guarding on a piece of equipment in our shops area, this organization will investigate Western if you injure yourself.
Who are the Ministry of Labor.
Sending part of our project to an external organization, often overseas, that has unique advantages such as technical ability, or cheap labor rates, is a practice known as this.
What is outsourcing?
Does not interupt, asks for clarification, verifies understanding by paraphrasing, pays close attention, and gets rid of distraction.
Who is the good listener?
The sworn enemy of the project manager, this is the common name for applying labor longer than it is scheduled for on any given day.
What is overtime?
This building on campus at Western tested the original world trade center twin towers and perhaps more famously the Citicorp Tower in NYC for compliance to wind loads.
What is the Allan Davenport Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel building?