Integration, Management and Visualization of Multi-Dimensional Information in Engineering Projects
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Wu, I-Chen
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
This research focuses on building up a framework to integrate and manage engineering project information for the project management team. Through analyzing four major demands, including the management of scheduling, costs, quality control and documentation, this research proposed a framework, named PIIM, to effectively solve the problems on integration of project information and system interface among different participating parties and engineering application systems. The framework can bring users a full view of the ongoing project, along with functions to integrate the information and display it in a multi-dimensional way. The PIIM framework is divided into three tiers: the first tier is the integrated data model, which can describe and store the entire information about the engineering projects; The second tier is the data access interface, which mainly deals with data access between the integrated data model and kernel module; The third tier is the kernel module, which provides core services of project management and encapsulates complicated project management functions into five easy-to-use modules: DataAdapter, DataManager, DataAnalyst, DataViewer and DataExporter.
Besides, this research also develops a visual project management information system, named VisPMIS, to test the feasibility of the proposed PIIM framework. There are five major characteristics in VisPMIS: (1) By establishing the integrated data model, the engineering project information can be stored intact and complete; (2) By representing the project information visually, it helps the project manager to grasp more quickly on the present stage of the ongoing project, and communicate and coordinate accordingly with the other project participants more efficiently; (3) By supporting data query from a multi-data-view, users can find necessary and relevant data they need in a more direct and efficient way; (4) Through the performance evaluation and statistical analysis, it helps project management team to master the project progress accurately; (5) The information of the integrated data model can be exported in different file formats for data exchange and sharing, so that the value of the system is increased and the application of the integrated information is extended. Through the feasibility study, it has been demonstrated that the PIIM framework proposed in this research can not only provide a more efficient method to integrate and manage project information, but also save programming time for the project management team on developing a project management system from sketch.
Subjects
工程專案管理
資料交換共享
multi-dimensional data integration
engineering project management
mutli-data-view
data exchange and sharing
Type
thesis
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