Abstract
To characterize the process of lead-time reduction in EPC project-based organizations, including the engineering, procurement, and construction activities, various elements such as organizational issues, firm resources, used methods and techniques, and performance measuring tools are important. In this study, the four mentioned elements are evaluated through a survey in different EPC project-based organizations. The survey is sent to only experts and managers who are involved in EPC projects, and the obtained data is used to test the relationship between the mentioned variables and the lead time of developing new products. This evaluation is followed by a set of generalized lessons learned and courses of action to improve the development process. Additionally, the attributes of performance measurement in such projects are scrutinized. Therefore, to analyze the impacts of the mentioned variables and their variations on the performance measurement, a mathematical model based on the fuzzy approach is developed. The results show that all of the four considered variables are correlated to the lead time and affect the quality perceived by the main client and the cost of the project. Moreover, data obtained from the proposed mathematical formulations illustrated that the fuzzy modeling approach is an effective method to predict the performance measurement level when the levels of the input variables are given.
Highlights
In today’s economic world, most organizations are looking to find the factors that create competitive advantages regarding the new product development (NPD) [1]. e development of new products helps organizations to maintain their competitive and monopoly position in the market
Four main parameters to characterize the process of lead-time reduction, organizational issues, firm resources, used methods and techniques, and performance measuring, in different EPC project-based organizations were considered
By getting help from the experts and managers in project-based organizations and companies, the correlations among them and the lead-time reduction were calculated. e finding was discussed in the format of lesson-learned and courses of action to improve the development process
Summary
In today’s economic world, most organizations are looking to find the factors that create competitive advantages regarding the new product development (NPD) [1]. e development of new products helps organizations to maintain their competitive and monopoly position in the market. In today’s economic world, most organizations are looking to find the factors that create competitive advantages regarding the new product development (NPD) [1]. E development of new products helps organizations to maintain their competitive and monopoly position in the market. Competitive markets force small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to move and improve themselves from the designing process to the engineering one. By analyzing the stages of the NPD process, the volume and content of product development activities may be controlled, considering the quantity and production objectives. Such considerations make significant differences between NPD activities on the scale of individual or mass production [8,9,10]
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