TY - GEN
T1 - Engineering change management impact on project success within a south african petrochemical company
AU - Serapelo, Thabisho Eric
AU - Erasmus, Louwrence
AU - Pretorius, Jan Harm
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/11/29
Y1 - 2017/11/29
N2 - Engineering changes are greatly influenced by the evolving technology and as a result customers' requirements are continuously changing. There is therefore, a need to effectively manage these changes as they arise. This research paper focuses mainly on the engineering change management (ECM) in projects within Petrochemical Company. Based on the fact that changes are inevitable, it is crucial to find out if these changes are managed properly in a project or not, and what will be the impact thereof. The literature review conducted in this paper discusses various ECM frameworks and the knowledge obtained assisted in propositions formulation. These propositions were then tested by means of questionnaires on experienced personnel working with the ECM on a daily basis. The results obtained revealed that proper ECM in a project will decrease the overall project cost and reduce overall project schedule. However, based on the knowledge of the people who participated in the survey, there is no correlation between ECM and project quality.
AB - Engineering changes are greatly influenced by the evolving technology and as a result customers' requirements are continuously changing. There is therefore, a need to effectively manage these changes as they arise. This research paper focuses mainly on the engineering change management (ECM) in projects within Petrochemical Company. Based on the fact that changes are inevitable, it is crucial to find out if these changes are managed properly in a project or not, and what will be the impact thereof. The literature review conducted in this paper discusses various ECM frameworks and the knowledge obtained assisted in propositions formulation. These propositions were then tested by means of questionnaires on experienced personnel working with the ECM on a daily basis. The results obtained revealed that proper ECM in a project will decrease the overall project cost and reduce overall project schedule. However, based on the knowledge of the people who participated in the survey, there is no correlation between ECM and project quality.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85043486235&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125469
DO - 10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125469
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85043486235
T3 - PICMET 2017 - Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology: Technology Management for the Interconnected World, Proceedings
SP - 1
EP - 8
BT - PICMET 2017 - Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology
A2 - Anderson, Timothy R.
A2 - Niwa, Kiyoshi
A2 - Kocaoglu, Dundar F.
A2 - Daim, Tugrul U.
A2 - Kozanoglu, Dilek Cetindamar
A2 - Perman, Gary
A2 - Steenhuis, Harm-Jan
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology, PICMET 2017
Y2 - 9 July 2017 through 13 July 2017
ER -