Matching the project management style to the business needs and how far along technology is in its development Project Type 1: Design of Serial #1 plant using new, constantly evolving technology Project style: Flexible to incorporate new technology advances if possible, flexible scope, Focus on designing a system that is flexible with wide operating windows…

Experience: Completed over 200 projects in chemical industry, designing and installing equipment in labs, pilot plants, and factories. Project Experience: Managing engineering teams for designing, buying, and installing chemical processing equipment and managing other engineers doing structural, electrical, instrumentation, HVAC, civil, and environmental aspects of the projects. Matching process equipment capability to business needs. Training:…

Specifically, for projects involving chemical processing equipment, the design should match the business needs with the best compromise possible. The business needs to match include: • Incoming and outgoing delivery times, frequency. shipment size, and desired inventory • Tankage or storage needed for RMs, intermediates, and finished goods • Market needs on product purity and…

Projects that are about designing for using new technologies, the project team leadership during scope definition is not about giving directions. A team leader will lead a team through a process that typically includes: • asking the right questions, • listening, • if available, reading and thoroughly understanding process procedures, • if not already done,…

Context: over 80% of the projects I managed were designs involving new technologies, so effective project management focused on first optimizing the design in a tradeoff of instead of maximizing project or construction efficiency. For projects involving new and evolving technologies, 80% – 96% of the value added comes during process scope and design phase…