Innovative method of the planning new projects in mechanical engineering

Abstract

The paper presents a matrix method for planning of the innovative ventures in the SMEs sector. The article presents the original process of designing and manufacturing the milling enclosure module taken from the industry, under the trade name of the ‘M10 cabin’, from the moment of receiving the inquiry from the customer to the shipment of the finished product. In the analyzed company, production planning was implemented by use of traditional graphic methods such as PERT or GANTT. The authors of the work proposed an innovative method based on a quadratic dependence matrix to solve the problem of planning new ventures. For the automation of the optimization process of the design and production processes, the proprietary program Mag Project was used, in which the own development of the Genetic Algorithm was implemented. The ideology of concurrent engineering and the advantages of its application were used to analyze the implementation of tasks in the matrix. After becoming familiar with the company’s operation, a new production planning process was developed for this modular product. The new ‘M10’ booth implementation procedure is presented in the form of an optimized coupling matrix.

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