Operations and Project Management

OPERATIONS AND
PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
PART-1............................................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Operation management principles and their critical implementation.....................................3
M1 Operation management theories ...........................................................................................4
P2 Continuous improvement plan and critical evaluation of operations management principles
......................................................................................................................................................5
PART-2............................................................................................................................................6
P3 PLC application into the railway infrastructure project in Europe.........................................6
Gantt Chart Analysis....................................................................................................................9
P4 Critical analysis of the PLC methodology used while completing the project.....................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
The operation management is an administration in the particular business activity so that it can
create maximum level of efficiency in various operations of organization. The operational
activities are concern with converting raw material and labour into goods and services in a highly
efficient manner that it can generate maximum profit in organization. Project management is
defined as methods and skills which are used to achieve the project objective. Corus steel is a
part of TATA steel in European market (Shou and et. al., 2020). This report will evaluate the
review the implementation of operation management principles in the Corus organization. The
operation management is done with the model of six sigma methodology and lean principles
models. Further, determine the continuous improvement plan which based on the review.
Application of suitable theories, concept and models which are helping to improve the efficiency
of Corus steel (Khodakova And et. al., 2020).
MAIN BODY
PART-1
LO1
P1 Operation management principles and their critical implementation
The operational management and its principles are administration of those activities which are
they are using the materials and required labour in a way that they can obtain maximum
effectiveness in making use of that (Dubrovskiy and et. al., 2017). The operational management
process involves various materials, technologies and labour for the production work which give
comparative advantage to the company. Operation management have different principles that are
applied by Corus steel manager in its work to improve the efficiency to produce the goods.
Reality
The manager of Corus should focus on the problems which are currently existing in the company
nor on the techniques that are applied for better production. The manager should know that for
improvement of its efficiency there is no specific tool that provide clear solution.
Fundamentals
In this principle the manager of Corus will know the way to comply together all the necessary
fundamentals as the fundamentals of Corus steel is main elements for success of the company.
The fundamentals include efficiency related to task that are performed in the company so that

they can achieve desirable goal (Malosio and et. al., 2017). If the company is doing its
fundamental activity properly than the resources are used efficiently.
Accountability
Operation principle of accountability is to set rules and particular metrics, with the help of this
principle the manager evaluate the objectives that have to be achieved by Corus. The manager of
Corus Steel is regularly monitored the employees that they are following the rules and meeting
their responsibility or not.
Success
The manger of Corus steel should explain to its employees regarding what they used to consider
as successful, so the employees in the company are clear and have their parameters to work with
to achieve group goal collectively. As corus is sub brand of TATA steel, so they have their
particular consideration for success. They are trying to communicate their goal and objectives to
get their success with the people of company (Sreedharan and Sunder M, 2018).
Variance
The variance in the productivity or more than predicted production is encouraged, if the manager
of Corus steel will encourage its worker to use the resource efficiently and effectively than they
are change to improve the organization production efficiency.
M1 Operation management theories
As the operation management is a process to improve the overall efficiency of organization so
the operational management have theories to improve efficiency.
Six Sigma
This approach of operation management leads to improvement of quality of operation
management by eliminating defects and errors and minimizing the required time for performing
management activities which will save the time. The six sigma approach is use effectively in
engineering and manufacturing companies and this approach is helpful in Corus steel as the
company is a manufacturing company (Sartal, Martinez-Senra and Cruz-Machado, 2018). Yet the
approach is value as it can also be used by other sectors companies. The six sigma is generally
takes higher budget to implement but the corus steel is making its use very effectively and
improving the efficiency and production as well. The process is helpful to as it track the record
of adding the values and check for required quality in the products, it is also applied in corus to