Engineering Project Management Blogs

Businesses and organizations in the private sector have been adopting and adjusting cloud technologies for quite some time now. Cloud technology has evolved and delivered its promises of being flexible, affordable, and secure. Following these trends, companies have customized their investments with multi-cloud and hybrid approaches to suit their needs.

Common City Problems Require Common Solutions

We’ve all been in those progress meetings where, for the fourth week running, engineering says they’ll be done next week. The PM and the customer rep exchange uneasy glances and others openly smirk and eyeball roll. These are the ones that think engineering can't be trusted because they are liars.

I’ve been spending some time getting up to speed on how heavy industrial projects work. Coming from the aerospace sector, it has been an interesting study with many obvious parallels and similar challenges.

If you order a ‘Venti Iced Skinny Hazelnut Macchiato, Sugar-Free Syrup, Extra Shot, Light Ice, No Whip’ at Starbucks, you KNOW EXACTLY what you’re getting because you exactly described it.

On the other hand, the term ‘EDMS’ (and even ‘Cloud’ and ‘Engineering Projects’ to a lesser degree) is a woolly

You just finished up a 50,000 hour engineering project.

It took 9 months to create and deliver 308 documents and files to your customer:

• 4 General Arrangement Drawings
• 20 Installation Drawings
• 20 Layout Drawings
• 223 Piping ISO Drawings
• 33 Engineering Analysis Reports
• 8 Solid models

You also created a ton of Excel spreadsheets, Word docs, emails and more. But these artifacts were noise in 

Back at the beginning of May, I was interviewed by Tino Da Silva Business Radio - an online radio station based in the UK. We got into some high level discussions about what document control and project control are as well as Tina5s (of course!). Below you'll find the audio version as well as edited transcripts if you prefer to read.

Here's The Audio: 

This is Part 3 of a 3 part blog (here is Document Control Software - What Are You Trying to Control Part 1 and Document Control Software - What Are You Trying to Control Part 2 if you missed them). To quickly recap: every document control software vendor has a different take on what document control is (see my blog What is Document Control for my take). We’ll have a look at the numerous control elements that you should consider and see how they tie into the document lifecycle:

This is Part 2 of a 3 part blog (if you missed Document Control Software - What Are You Trying to Control Part 1, check it out). To quickly recap: every document control software vendor has a different take on what document control is (see my blog What is Document Control for my take). We’ll have a look at the numerous control elements that you should consider and see how they tie into the document lifecycle:

Every document control software vendor has a different take on what document control is (see my blog What is Document Control for my take). In this 3 part blog, we’ll have a look at the numerous control elements that you should consider and see how they tie into the document lifecycle: