Scheduling a production line using the critical path method / a case study in the General Company for Electrical Industries

Abstract

     The project management faces challenges represented in the completion of the project, although it is subject to constraints related to time and financial resources allocated to the project, so this matter requires an accurate calculation of time and cost. order for the scheduled time and cost. On this basis, the project was studied again according to modern scientific and mathematical methods, using the critical path method (CPM) to find the order completion time and its cost, depending on one of the ready-made efficient programs, which is (WinQSB2). electrician, at a cost of (152,000,000) million dinars. The time and cost of completing an order for the production of 2000 electric heaters in the General Company for Electrical Industries, based on personal experience and simple mathematical methods, and according to the data taken from the planning department in the company, was (300) days and at a cost of (190,000,000) million dinars, and compared to the results obtained using Critical Path Method (CPM) We conclude that the proposed method has proven its efficiency and sobriety in scheduling activity times as well as reducing the order completion time by (43) days and reducing the cost by (38,000,000) million dinars than planned in the company.