Design project failure avoidance using auditing

Traditional product, design management focuses on project management techniques, decision-making process and methodology of cost and schedule control. To manage multiple design projects (MDP) executed concurrently, these approaches may not pay enough attention to all situations occurring throughout projects. Unfortunately, increasing information makes specific checkpoint review insufficient to control the project. The conflict of MDP causes more problems than those from traditional projects. A design project audit needs not only a checkpoint (one-dimension) but also the overall process (multi-dimension) review. Negligence of any changes or abnormal project situation may cause project catastrophe. To ensure design project success and manage design project changes under control, an auditing system is developed to provide the function of avoiding project failure. This paper first uses coloured Petri nets to simulate the status of multiple design projects and analyze required auditing functions. Conflicts can be located and processed within the coloured Petri nets. A neural network is then created and used to recognize the error rate of route dispatching through training from previous design cases. Furthermore, information flow of the Petri nets is modified to avoid design project failure by adding alternatives.