What is the engineering control?

“Engineering control” states managing all engineering documents and applying designs and constructs efficiently from when a project manager is appointed, and the actual work starts. “The critical points” of engineering controls can be applied not only to plant construction but other industries. Those are include finding out where the critical documents for a project are located, meeting document submission deadlines, making sure to carry key meetings out, and being complete document quality control. And, you should be able to operate the project efficiently by.

The critical point of engineering

In more detail, key documents there got to be always drawing some “Flow” no matter what for construction projects, product development, or software development. If you can’t draw a flow, you can’t carry out a project, and even if you proceed it, you can’t produce an Engineering Specification or Procedure that meets your objectives, which would increase the holding risk that the project.　Conversely, it can be said that for mitigating project risk starts with clarifying the “flow”.

Regarding to “meeting document submission deadlines”, It is essential to ensure that the submission deadline is kept by creating a reliable timetable, inputting the document’s content and submission deadline. To “make that these to adhere”, it is necessary to check progress regularly and not merely assume that “they would do it“. This applies not only to project members but also to outsourcing, partner companies, vendors. And it would need also giving a timely “EXPEDITION” in some cases.

 Besides, in the case of fit these to subcontractors, partner companies, or vendors, by including the document’s content and deadline in the contract, you should be able to check for process delays and avoid being additionally charged for re-creation/reporting. Regarding “making sure to carry key meetings out”; it can be said that in general, at the start of a project, because the mutual relationship between service scopes does not become intense, so often each service scopes are working independently and each own pace. In these cases, key meetings are less likely to be done, so it’s probably fair to say that we don’t try to visualise or quantify the issues that each engineer faces.

It is significantly related to strict quality control of documents. It can be said that it is hard to control Check List, Hold Mark (unconfirmed data), and Hold Release Control (from unconfirmed to confirmed). In this way, the engineering manager must take control while letting “the critical points” work, as mentioned earlier.