54 results about "Work breakdown structure" patented technology

A project systems integrator integrates a financial planning system and an operational planning system for a project. The integrator loads a work breakdown structure (“WBS”) from the financial planning system and another WBS from the operational planning system. The integrator then records links between corresponding nodes of the financial WBS and operational WBS. When data is entered, updated, or otherwise changed, the data is propagated between the nodes in accordance with the links.

The computer-enabled system and method is provided to digitally capture communication related to a project and analyze the captured communication to create and manage work items of the project in a collaborative environment. The invention can be used annotate portions of a digitally captured communication that relate to a potential work item for the project, thereby simultaneously generating a work item and initiating a workflow for the work item. The system may further configured to automatically generate tasks to insert into the user's work breakdown structure when the work items are generated.

A method and apparatus for managing a building model inventory, including a database structured for storing element specification and instance data from both a previous version and a latter revision of building information modeling datasets, respectively. In addition to the building information modeling element data, the database associates completed assembly pass, unit cost, work breakdown structure, and other inventory management data with the element type definitions and element instance data. Application software compares the first and second inventory revisions to identify all changes, additions and / or deletions of building elements between the previous version and the latter revision of the building information modeling datasets. By tracking the elements that change, the changes that affect the construction schedule and quantity, configuration and specification of materials are identified. An engineering cost analysis based on the changed data provides a rapid understanding of the implications of any design change.

A computer-implemented method and system for validating a task of a plurality of tasks of a project. A computing application executes routines to automatically identify errors associated with one or more tasks. The routines generate exception reports that facilitate correction of the errors via user-determined selections of actions or via corrective actions automatically displayed by the computing application. The error identification facilitates validation of project elements including milestones, dependencies and deliverables, key work products, tasks in a work breakdown structure (WBS), predecessors and successors in the WBS, resources, work and labor rates, links between project plans, and an update of a project. Further, the error identification facilitates an analysis of schedule conflicts between give and get tasks.

The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the deployment and execution of a software offering. During operation, the system obtains a service definition of the software offering. Next, the system creates a work-breakdown structure based on a set of policies from the service definition. Finally, the system uses the work-breakdown structure to automatically provision a set of resources for use by the software offering without requiring manual configuration of the resources by a user.

The present invention relates to a project assessment method and software featuring processes and tools for the implementation and assessment of large, business critical, and high risk business programs and projects. The method provides a work breakdown structure life cycle; a set of work breakdown structure milestones, selected from health check, monthly status, and certification milestones; assessing each milestone based upon process, delivery, and certification process assessment areas; determining best practices; optional feedback mechanisms; and reports at each step to evaluate and provide structured recommendations regarding the status or execution of a project.

An action-based in-process software defect prediction (ABDP) applies classifying records of a performed action to predict whether subsequent actions cause defects in a project. A performed action is previously defined herein as an operation performed based on tasks in Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) of the project. Rather than focusing on the reported defects, ABDP discovers the patterns of the performed action that may cause defects composing a historic data set, and uses analytical results to predict whether the subsequent actions are likely to generate defects composing another historic data set. Once actions with high probability of causing the defects are identified, stakeholders review these actions carefully and take appropriate corrective actions to create a fresh performed action. The fresh performed action is continually appended to the historic data sets of amending the defects to construct a new prediction model for further subsequent actions.

The invention discloses a nuclear power project progress measuring method. The nuclear power project progress measuring method comprises that a nuclear power project is broken down into subprojects according to a work breakdown structure (WBS) which is built in advance; each subproject is quantized to form a progress reference scale form of each subproject; and the value of each subproject, on the corresponding progress reference scale form, is read, and all the values are calculated according to a progress measuring sample form to obtain the nuclear power project progress rate. The nuclear power project progress measuring method realizes real-time accurate monitoring and progress quantization of operation processes of the nuclear power project. In addition, the invention further discloses a nuclear power project progress measuring system.

The invention refers to a innovator process and system for verifying the maintenance condition of used goods, based on QFD-Quality Function Deployment and WBS Work Breakdown Structure techniques, which produces understandable reports specially designed and intended to furnish information to users and potential buyers, who do not need to be technicians in the area relative to the specific good. In the present invention, these methodologies are applied in the innovating verification and analysis process of the condition of used goods, such as vehicles, machines, properties, etc.

The invention discloses a method and a system for automatically generating a WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) node basing on BIM (Building Information Modeling), which belongs to the field of a computer. The method comprises the steps of defining a task according to building engineering; relating corresponding BOQ (Bill Of Quantity) content to all BOQ contents contained by the building engineering; dividing a pipelining segment for the building engineering according to BIM, and determining BOQ content contained by the pipelining segment, wherein the BOQ content corresponds to corresponding consumed resource, corresponding quantity and corresponding cost; carrying out intersection operation on the BOQ content related to the task and the BOQ content contained by the pipelining segment, obtaining an intersection and establishing the WBS node when the intersection is not null; calculating the BOQ content in the intersection corresponding to the WBS node; and calculating the consumed resource, the quantity and the cost of the WBS node according to BIM and the BOQ content corresponding to the WBS node. According to the method and the system, which are disclosed by the invention, the working quantity of a worker is reduced, and the working efficiency is increased.

A product information modeling method in a collaborative environment based on a product entire life cycle comprises the following four steps of: 1, establishing a generalized model basic framework according to a WBS (Work Breakdown Structure); 2, when the BOM (Bill Of Material) is updated, extracting the BOM information of each view; 3, finding a slave information model related to the updating in a unified product information model, if the slave information model is found, updating and upgrading the slave information model, comprising inserting or deleting a new node, and changing the relationship between nodes, and if the slave information model is not found, finding the node on the higher level to which the slave information model belongs, then creating a view and a relationship, and establishing the UPIM (Unified Product Information Model); and 4, continuously judging whether the BOM is updated, and repeating the steps. The product information modeling method in the collaborative environment based on the product entire life cycle has a better practical value in the technical field of computer aided design.

A WBS design managing means in project management, comprising: a WBS tree-like architecture designing means for implementing graphical tree-like design of the work items included in a project and their relations, and mapping them into an enhanced WBS data structure; a WBS attribute editing means for defining and editing attributes of work items at each node of the tree-like architecture; and a WBS data managing means for storing and managing data constructed in accordance with said enhanced WBS data structure. The WBS design managing means may connect to a converter for converting said constructed data into the format required by a project management tool so as to input said structured data to the project management tool. Besides, there is provided an enhanced WBS design tool. The present invention makes the system design tool and project management tool be integrated, so that the system architect and the project management personal have more fluent channel for information exchange under the support of the present invention's tool, improving efficiency and accuracy of project management.

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for a self-contained web-based communications platform for work assignments. Embodiments of the invention provide a self-contained platform for creating, assigning, and completing work assignments, including recording and transmitting all relevant work-related materials between managers and staff electronically. For example, a computer system can create a work breakdown structure that breaks work projects into smaller work assignments and can store objects relevant to completion of a work assignment in a work assignments database. Using skills and availability information, the computer system can determine which staff has the skill and availability for completing the work assignment. The computer system assigns the work assignment to a selected staff member and makes the work assignments database available to the selected staff member. Other embodiments can include tracking work assignments in terms of work assignments completed correctly and providing for targeted and relevant marketing.

A computer-implemented method and system for validating a task of a plurality of tasks of a project. A computing application executes routines to automatically identify errors associated with one or more tasks. The routines generate exception reports that facilitate correction of the errors via user-determined selections of actions or via corrective actions automatically displayed by the computing application. The error identification facilitates validation of project elements including milestones, dependencies and deliverables, key work products, tasks in a work breakdown structure (WBS), predecessors and successors in the WBS, resources, work and labor rates, links between project plans, and an update of a project. Further, the error identification facilitates an analysis of schedule conflicts between give and get tasks.

The invention relates to an evaluation method and device for the system technology maturity. The method comprises the steps that 1) administrators set and store following contents, including system technology maturity evaluation levels and level details and system work breakdown structures and key technology items, in a database in advance; 2) experts evaluate the system technology maturity of the system key technology items and store the system technology maturity in the database; 3) evaluation data of all experts are processed comprehensively based on weighting and short plate threshold algorithms to obtain evaluation results of the system technology maturity. According to the evaluation method and device, the method that only one copy of the technology maturity evaluation level detail data is stored is used, the technological problem of repeated storage of a great number of data is solved through a multi-dimensional extension data storage and processing method, and evaluation of a plurality of technology items of significant complex systems by a plurality of experts and automatic data statistic analysis are achieved. The evaluation method and device have the advantages that the data storage and processing efficiency is improved, evaluation and organization work is convenient and flexible, evaluation costs are reduced, and the like.

The invention discloses an automatic transferring method and system for an electric system and belongs to the field of information management of the electric system. The automatic transferring system comprises a plant management (PM) module for generating a standing book of a device, an asset management (AM) module for producing asset cards, a material management (MM) module for determining asset values, a projection system (PS) module for determining the asset values and a financial control (FICO) module for generating financial vouchers. According to the system, module businesses in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system are joined by means of an automatic transferring completion settlement method, so that the module businesses are closely coupled, data qualities are improved, work amount is reduced, work efficiency is improved, and the requirements for optimal management of projects and entire life-cycle management of assets are achieved. The automatic transferring method is based on initial purchase values of the device corresponding to materials in asset bill-of-material (BOM), a project work breakdown structure (WBS) is used as a link, material cost allocation of projection costs is established, and transferring card values and device purchase values are formed on the basis of a relationship among materials, devices and assets in the asset BOM.

The invention relates to a method and a system for project management process feedback and deviation analysis. The method comprises the following steps of 1, progress plan planning; 2, progress feedback; 3, deviation analysis and display. The method and the system have the advantages that the progress feedback realizing quantitative and qualitative combination is realized, meanwhile, the integral progress feedback integrating the generated problem, the current actual progress and the future risk is realized, the progress and the weight of all subordinate tasks are integrally considered, high-level stage WBS (work breakdown structure) and project actual progress are formed through summarizing, the task and WBS actual progress and time plan are used for comparison, and a respective actual execution deviation is formed, and is directly displayed in a Gantt chart.

The invention discloses a method for controlling a shipbuilding production flow. The method comprises the following steps of: establishing a work breakdown structure (WBS) component of a ship type based on the WBS; importing a manufacturing bill of materials (MBOM) of the ship type into the WBS component of the ship type, and generating a plurality of work package (WP) components; generating a plurality of work order (WO) components by each WP component; importing single-ship parameters into the WBS component of the ship type, and generating a single-ship production flow control plan, wherein the single-ship production flow control plan comprises a series of single-ship WP components and single-ship WO components; importing a time period, and searching a plurality of relevant single-ship production flow control plans according to the time period to form a multi-ship comprehensive production flow control plan, wherein the multi-ship comprehensive production flow control plan comprises a series of comprehensive WP components and comprehensive WO components; and allocating the series of comprehensive WP components and comprehensive WO components to each entity unit, and generating an operation plan by each entity unit according to the comprehensive WP components and the comprehensive WO components.

The invention discloses a method for carrying out lean management of the asset value of the power grid transmission and transformation project, which is on the basis of construction of an asset-class WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) system and aims to establish collaborative management of the asset value and real objects in the building process of the transmission and transformation project. A project structure is shown according to the deliverable, i.e. the WBS is result-oriented, rather than task-oriented; the WBS structure takes a link effect on connection of materials, equipment and assets, i.e. the WBS division on the basis of the deliverable of the project is the base of carrying out effective progress and cost control and carrying out value management; the management process of the project assets is met and collaborative management of the real objects and the asset value is implemented, i.e. the WBS element must ensure 100 percent of coverage of the delivery result in the future.

A WBS design managing means in project management, comprising: a WBS tree-like architecture designing means for implementing graphical tree-like design of the work items included in a project and their relations, and mapping them into an enhanced WBS data structure; a WBS attribute editing means for defining and editing attributes of work items at each node of the tree-like architecture; and a WBS data managing means for storing and managing data constructed in accordance with said enhanced WBS data structure. The WBS design managing means may connect to a converter for converting said constructed data into the format required by a project management tool so as to input said structured data to the project management tool. Besides, there is provided an enhanced WBS design tool. The present invention makes the system design tool and project management tool be integrated, so that the system architect and the project management personal have more fluent channel for information exchange under the support of the present invention's tool, improving efficiency and accuracy of project management.

A method and system for generating a work breakdown structure (WBS) model data. Design model data is received. The design model data is parsed to extract WBS metadata from the design model data. A WBS template corresponding to the design model data is determined. The WBS model data is generated using the determined WBS template and the extracted WBS metadata. The WBS model data includes data entries. Each data entry is associated with a respective work task.

A project portfolio management system creating virtual interrelationships between projects. Aspects of the system include creating virtual relationships at the Work Breakdown Structure (“WBS”) level with appropriate offsets using interpretations of logic relationships in detailed project schedules using various calculation approaches. The system models the linkages between detailed project schedules in a virtual relationship usable in alternate scenario planning analysis at a summary or working level. The virtual relationships are accurate enough for high level planning by users (e.g., program managers and analysts) with limited familiarity of project details (e.g., which non-workdays are in which project calendars) and reduce the computation times when altering a project planning scenario. Using the virtual relationships allows scenarios to be quickly evaluated to gauge the effects of changing constraints before committing to recalculating the detailed schedules of a project.

The invention discloses a multi-project resource balancing and optimizing method which is characterized by comprising the steps that (1) shared resources are reserved and approved based on a work breakdown structure (WBS); (2) then each project is balanced and optimized through the heuristic algorithm based on priority rules and parallel scheduling according to the approved shared resource quota and the limit of self-owned resources. According to the multi-project resource balancing and optimizing method, the simple heuristic algorithm and parallel scheduling are adopted, and the impact of the selection of operation priority rules on a balancing result can be mitigated to a certain extent.

The invention provides a method for altering a work breakdown structure (WBS), comprising the following steps: step 102, amending data of a production plan; and step 104, altering the corresponding work breakdown structure based on the amended production plan data. The invention also provides a device for altering the work breakdown structure. By adopting the technical scheme in the invention, a user can alter WBS tasks directly based on the adjusted production plan to lead the existing production plan to maintain the user adjustment result so as to synchronize the WBS tasks with the production plan and enable the subsequent real business to be executed, thus avoiding mistakes and omission due to untimely adjustment and improving the production efficiency.

The invention discloses a software risk test and control method and a system thereof. The software risk test and control method comprises the following steps of: establishing a risk database; newly building a project and guiding the newly-built project into a WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) table; establishing risk management targets of the project; prompting a testing personnel to pre-process upcoming risks as early as possible because that risk is possible to generate when different roles are output at different stages according to the different roles and work tasks; changing project information; when the testing personnel meets risks which do not be prompted early in the project, directly searching countermeasures corresponding to the risks through a search engine by the testing personnel, so that a process solution suitable for the project is obtained according to a reasonable reference. The system comprises a risk database, a project information input module, a risk management target generating module, an authority identification and risk output module, an information changing and coping module and a risk search engine. The software risk test and control method is used for monitoring in real time and providing a risk control strategy; and the system can be used for reducing a period of the project and reducing the cost of the project.

The invention relates to a work breakdown structure (WBS) automatic generation method based on a flow diagram. The method comprises a first step of automatically generating a tree structure and a set membership between activity instances by leading the flow diagram in and setting an interlinkage automatic conversion method, a second step of setting a task execution cycle, a third step of setting procedure start time, a fourth step of automatically calculating working time according to the procedure start time and the task execution cycle, a fifth step of enabling workflow and a task tree to share a basic information table, and data bank redundancy is reduced. Value field range can be reduced by setting of the interlinkage conversion method, the tree structure algorithm is automatically generated, the problem of a constrained relationship among tasks is well solved, and efficiency is improved.

The invention relates to a WBS design manager, which comprises: WBS tree structure designer for realizing image tree design based on the working item and relationship of one item, to be projected into one strengthened WBS data structure; a WBS character edit for defining and editing the character of working item of each node of said tree structure; a WBS data manager for storing and managing the data formed by said strengthened WBS data structure; said inventive WBS design manager can be connected to one converter to convert the data into the format needed by item manage tool, to input the data into item manage tool. And the invention also provides one strengthened WBS design tool. The invention combines the system design tool and the item manage tool, to realize more successful information interaction, to improve manage efficiency and accuracy.

The invention provides a method for matching a task executor for a work breakdown structure. The method comprises the following steps of: 102, inputting information of a project member and data of a material sublist of the project member; and 104, determining the information of the matched project member and the data of the material sublist corresponding to the matched project member for the material in the work breakdown structure according to the information of the project member and the data of the material sublist when the work breakdown structure is generated in a bill of materials. The invention also provides a system for matching the task executor for the work breakdown structure. Through the technical scheme provided by the invention, the task executor can be set according to user demand, the set task executor can be matched for the work breakdown structure, repetitive work of a user is reduced, working efficiency is improved, and omission and error of a project plan are avoided to the greatest extent.

The invention provides a method for generating a bill of material, comprising the following steps: step 102, selecting tasks in a work breakdown structure; step 104, generating items of the bill of material according to the task; step 106, finding a preposed task of the tasks in the work breakdown structure, and returning to the step 104 until no preposed task is found; and step 108, generating the bill of material according to all the items of the bill of material. The invention also provides a device for generating a bill of material. According to the invention, the bill of material can be automatically generated by virtue of the tasks, and the operating load of a user is reduced.