Improvements to Implementation of Single Equipment Unit Projects

Abstract

The pharmaceutical industry faces daily challenges relating to resources, time and budget established by implementing projects that contemplate a single equipment unit. Many times, referring to a single unit of equipment makes it look as a simple project, and the allocated budget is one limited due to the consideration in which staff within the Organization will be responsible for completing and support most of the required activities. That's why a project was conducted to qualify a metal detector (single equipment unit) following the phases of Project Management to identify how to improve the implementation of projects which support a single unit of equipment and complying with the resources, time and budget. It was found that the guidelines used by the organization need to be more robust based on the project magnitude, and the organizational culture must be considered from the initial project phase to achieve completion within time and budget. Key Terms ⎯ continuous improvement, equipment units, organization, project management.