BW [4] - ORGANISATION STRUCTURE OF MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY - 3

ORGANISATION STRUCTURE OF MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY - 3

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Department wise responsibilities are discussed below.

Planning Department:

As the name reflects this department is responsible for the planning of the job. Planning department is the center axis of a site team. The proper and smooth execution of work depends on proper planning of each activity and co-ordination of the same with other departments.

What are all planned by the department? Below are the some of the main activities that are planned by this department.

Progress Planning:

 How much is to be done will be reflected in this plan. There will be macro and micro schedule for the progress plan. Considering the overall completion date macro planning will be done. Mostly this will be on a week basis. This Week base macro plan is further divided in to day wise micro plan. 

The planned work is monitored against the actual and necessary adjustments will be done for meeting the completion schedule. This adjustments is done by adjusting the time and resources for the completion of work.

What are the activities generally planned? For a piping project the Inchdia fitup and welding, Inch meter erection, Tonnage of pipe support erection, equipment erection, Hydro-static test loops, Box-Up loops etc. For a structural project tonnage of fabrication, tonnage of erection, tonnage of alignment and tonnage of final acceptance. Planning for painting, NDT etc will also be there in the progress plan.

Progress plan is the document the top management of a organisation will use to monitor and control of project. The most important thing is the work executed in terms of money can also be roughly estimated from a good progress plan. 

There planning is done on software such as Microsoft Project , Primavera etc. The simplest and most popular method is using MS Excel.

After the award of contract of the job, progress planning activity is done. This will be reviewed by top management and will be evaluated whether it is inline with the management plan of the organisation.

The progress plan will consider the seasonal matters (Rainy season, summer season etc), the holidays/festivals etc.

After finalization and approval of the progress plan the resource planning will be started. This will be discussed in the next blog of this series.