Global Business Environment
for desalination and water treatment projects

5. Quality management

The present management practice encourages iterative engineering of the project parts to be executed concurrently. It allegedly shortens the project engineering and procurement times. The downside of ‘iterative concurrency’ is uncontrollable increase in work hours (by 50% - 400%) and design misses as any revision in the process design triggers multiple revisions in the detail design and the order changes. On the average the procurement mistakes reach 3% of the installed equipment costs. In such a situation the project time schedule becomes meaningless - the main cause of the client dissatisfaction growth.
GBE irons out the concurrent engineering pitfalls by offering a new scheduling paradigm. As a highly productive tool, it allows one to complete about 40% (!) of the project typical activities in a very short period during the bidding time.