Improvement of Industrialization Projects Management: An Automotive Industry Case Study

Abstract

Nowadays, in response to the technological evolution of the markets, organi-zations need to effectively improve their product development process. The product development can be seen as a global project where the industrializa-tion project is a subproject of the product development project. The use of an integrated project management process helps to ensure projects comple-tion according to the schedule plan and to keep the cost inside the budget and the quality with acceptable standards. The main objective of this re-search was the improvement of the project management practices in industri-alization projects in a company of the automotive sector. An integrated pro-ject management process was developed and key project management tools and techniques were proposed, considering the project organizational con-text. 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 industrializa-tion projects.