Method for the scheduling and control of projects and production-phase business operation

• US 20070016461A1
• Filed: 06/16/2006
• Published: 01/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Thales SA
• Original Assignee: Thales SA
• Inventors: Draperi, Jacques
• Application Number:
  US11/454,124
• Publication Number:
  US 20070016461A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06312 Adjustment or analysis of established resource schedule, e.g. resource or task levelling, or dynamic rescheduling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06313 Resource planning in a project environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06314 Calendaring for a resource

Abstract

A system for the management of business operations or projects that brings into play several users Uij comprises at least the following elements in combination: a management controller adapted to the reception of data proper to a business operation and to the updating of this data on the basis of information delivered by the users; a database containing the information needed for the management of a business operation or a project; one or more interfaces between the management controller and the users.

Claims

1. - A system for the management of business operations or projects that brings into play several users Uij, the system comprising at least the following elements in combination:

a management controller adapted to the reception of data proper to a business operation and to the updating of this data on the basis of information delivered by the users,

a database containing the information needed for the management of a business operation or a project,

one or more interfaces between the management controller and the users.

2. - A system according to claim 1, wherein the management controller is adapted to controlling information introduced by a user for a given business operation or a given project.

3. - A system according to claim 1, wherein the management controller is adapted to the real-time generation of the updating of the information pertaining to the progress of a business operation or of a project.

4. - A system according to claim 3, wherein the management controller is adapted to the real-time generation of a timetable containing the dates of acceptance or delivery.

5. - A system according to claim 1, wherein the management controller is adapted to executing an initialization step for which the scheduling of a business operation or a project is prepared from a countdown schedule and possibilities of rescheduling in the event of modifications.

6. - A system according to claim 1, wherein a business operation is defined as being formed by one or more products formed by articles, themselves formed by one or more articles uip to the elementary articles delivered.

7. - A system according to claim 1, wherein the users are grouped in several islands (Ij) and the management controller is adapted to managing the information coming from the different islands.