Case Study: Repair Works For Western Australian Tank Farm

Organisation Background

Introduction:

The major problem in the case of the Western Australia is the fuel storage systems which is already and cannot store any further amount of the fuel in the systems. The work of the organisation is to provide fuel to the surrounding states located around the Australia. The organization own various stores in the systems (Fleming & Koppelman, 2016). The western Australians tank is one of such old tank which have become one of the oldest system. The report focuses on the part that the western Australian tank is re-structured and bought to new stage without disturbing the normal schedule. The project will focus on the part that the tank must be working all time thought the repairing project. The project schedule and the working style is also provided in the research.

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Implementation plan:

In order to make the project happen one has to complete the following tasks for the process of completion of the project:

Task 1:

The capacity of the tank is approximately one billion litres, which is the maximum amount of the patrol that can be kept in the tank. But if the tank is entirely filled up then there are risk about the breaking of the tank. In order to avoid such circumstances the entire tank is not always filled up. Due to old age of the tank there are certain small cracks and crevasses in the tank though which the patrols is leaking (Harrison & Lock, 2017). This needs to be filled up in order to reduce any of the loss. Of the organisation. There are 4 steel pacts which needs to be filled up with and make nessecery changes in the tank. Also there are 4 steel anchors that are needed to be fitted which will help the workers work above the tank in case. Also the entire tank is to be cleaned and from the inside in order to remove any of the contamination. Other than this the entire tank is to be painted blue in order to reduce the heat generating from the tanks. Also the colour blue is environmental friendly. Other than this the tank is also to be filled up by during the entire processes of the repair. The capacity of the tank is 1million litre and can be filled up entirely in 4 to 6 hours, therefore the workers will get at most of 4 hours of time to complete the repair process and then the tank has be filled up (Heldman, 2018). There is huge chance off miss scheduling of the entire tsk and the risk is to be taken in order to get the work done. After the completion of the task the tank last up to the next 40 year without any further repair work.

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Tank 2:

This tank is slightly bigger than the tank one   and has a capacity of holding 3 million litters of unleaded petrol. This tank also is also having some of the major defects that is needed to be filled up urgently and repaired. This needs to be filled up in order to reduce any of the loss. Of the organisation. There are 4 steel pacts which needs to be filled up with and make nessecery changes in the tank. Also there are 4 steel anchors that are needed to be fitted which will help the workers work above the tank in case. Also the entire tank is to be cleaned and from the inside in order to remove any of the contamination. Other than this the entire tank is to be painted blue in order to reduce the heat generating from the tanks. Also the colour blue is environmental friendly. Other than this the tank is also to be filled up by during the entire processes of the repair (Joosten, Basten & Mellis,2016). The capacity of the tank is 1million litre and can be filled up entirely in 8 to 10 hours, therefore the workers will get at most of 2 hours of time to complete the repair process and then the tank has be filled up. There are serious pressure from the commercial organisation and demand for the petrol that is stored in the tank 2.

Tank 3:

The tank 3 is the biggest tank among the all is has to be done with utmost priority as this is the main reservoir of the petrol’s, the tank 1 and the tank 2 are filled up with the petrol that are stored in this tank. Other than the cleaning and the repairing of the tanks and colouring the same there is also an urgent need of changing the steel valve of the same. The new steel valve has be made up of stainless steel (Kerzner, & Kerzner, 2017). The filling time of this tank is approximately 18 to 20 hours so the worker will get a very less amount of the time to complete the entire task in time. But has to be done so that the petrol in this tank gets filled up to the other tanks before the new consignments arrives. Also there are 4 steel anchors that are needed to be fitted which will help the workers work above the tank in case. Also the entire tank is to be cleaned and from the inside in order to remove any of the contamination. Other than this the entire tank is to be painted blue in order to reduce the heat generating from the tanks. Also the colour blue is environmental friendly (Turner, 2016). Other than this the tank is also to be filled up by during the entire processes of the repair

Situation

Other than the short time interval for the purpose of the repairing of the tanks there are also some of the other challenges that are needed to be faced. There are some of the serious site challenges that has to be dealt with in order to complete the project. All the direction of the site is of commercial use. On one side there are loading docks while the other side has a road dead-end leading to container termination (Kostalova,  Tetrevova & Svedik, 2015).  On the third side there is a filling factory so the side cannot be used. All the works in any of the tanking has to be stopped while the tanks are getting refilled as there are huge chances of fire as of the highly inflammable fuel. This is the one of the most important challenge that has to be taken care of. In order to work with tanks the engineers and the workers will need a small   crane and scaffoldings. This work has to be done in the day light as there are very much of the low light in the night. Also the workers has to take protective measures in order to get down the tank and work in the environed. If all the works are not done in proper time then the organisation may face a loss of $3 every hour. Which is a huge loss for the organisation. The team has to do very precise work in order to complete the work done in a proper manner.

Management plan:

Management plan can be explained as the property of the management to explain the plans and other objectives and goals and planned approach in a planned manner. In this case the work of the management is to fix the right schedule of the task in order to do the task in a rightful time and with less delay (Laudon & Laudon, 2016).  A proper management plan must include several properties that are listed below:

• The management plan must give a proper goal of the project which in is case is the process of the repairing work of the tanks.
• The plan must include the list of the actions that has to be taken to achieve the goals, which in this case is that task of repairing all the 3tanks properly.
• One of the other important work of the management is to decide the roles and commitments of the personal for the task. This is one of the key thing to be done as if the work of even one person is not done in proper way then may lead to the delay of the entire project.
• The management also must be able to deal with all the modification of the going to do in this task.
• There are several tools that makes up the management plan work in a proper way. Some of the important tools that are needed to be followed (Li, et al .,2015).

o The affinity diagram- It helps in collecting large amount of the data that are used for the organising them in proper groups for the purpose based on their natural relationship.

o The tree diagram- It helps in showing all the possible outcomes for an event, hence is very much useful for the purpose of the evaluating risk.

o The inter relationship diagram- it shows the effect of all the possible outcomes for the given task.

o The matrix diagram- it helps in the measuring the relationships In between two of the entities.

o Prioritization matrices

o The process decision diagram chart.

o Activity network diagram.

Project performance evaluation:

Project performance evaluation can be explained as the performance measurement that is done or performance evaluations by the customers for the project. Some of the major processes of the project performance evaluation are

1. Schedule: This is one of the major aspect for the project performance evaluation. In this case the schedule is the most important aspect of the entire project (Markatos et al.,2013). As the filling up of the tanks and the repairing work has to be done simultaneously therefore following a strict schedule is one of the major aspects in the system. Falling behind the schedule may lead to failure of the project and hence can make a huge loss for the organization (Too & Weaver, 2014). Therefore a strict schedule has be followed.
2. Quality: The quality of the project of the project has robe such that the tanks again lasts for the next 50 years without any maintenances and cost. It can be said that if the work is done in proper manner this can help in the process of the maintaining the quality of the project. Further it can be said that the quality is one of the think all must possess. The quality of the tank is already of high class as it has given the services for maintain for the upcoming years.
3. Cost: This is one of the major factor for the process of the repairing of the task, it can be said that transition needs to maintain the proper cost value (Teixeira et al., 2016).. As the broken tanks can hamper a loss of 3$ per hour it becomes tougher for the managers to hold on to profit (Tromp & Homan, 2015). A onetime investment in the developing of the tank and repairing them can help the transition in dealing with the onetime process (Nicholas & Steyn, 2017). Tis will also help the organization is saving the money for the upcoming years as the tank may go on for the next 30 years without any of the maintenances.
4. Stake holder’s satisfaction: this is the most important for any of the project, if the shareholders are not satisfied with the work of the project then the entire time and the value of the project goes to vain. The organization has to do the work in such a manner that the stakeholders get the property in proper manner (Schwalbe, 2015). In this project the major shareholders are the public who buys the petrol, hence in order to make the public happier the organization has to try hard and fill-up the tank.

Project Closure

Going through the entire case study and implementing the project plan required for the aircraft manufacturing process, it can be said that the project implementation has a scope of becoming absolutely successful if the project plan is followed throughout  (Tromp & Homan, 2015) (Tromp & Homan, 2015).  Australian western had appointed the Project Director to implement a medium sized passenger jet market which would be able to directly compete with the Big Two in the market. The implementation of the project plan can come to a further closure with two steps in particular which would be justified in details as follow:

• Quality Management: The set of procedures that ensure the total deliverables of a team form the Quality Management Process. Quality Management ensures that the product or service is consistent. The Project Head is bound to have four primary components including the quality planning, quality control, quality improvement and quality assurance (Sligo et al., 2017). It is not only focused on the service and the product quality but is also focused primarily on the ways by which the products and services of the company is achieved. Quality assurance and control of processes as well as products are used by Quality Management to gain a much more consistent quality (Turner, 2016). Therefore, it is essential that the project must have a quality management procedure after the implementation of the plan.
• Risk Management: The systematic application of management policies, practises and procedures to establish the tasks of identifying, analysing, contesting, treating, assessing, monitoring and communicating is known as Risk Management in an organization (Verzuh, 2015). To establish proper risk management strategy and make it work effectively, it is necessary that a group be established to work upon the issue of establishing the risk management process in order to have a good understanding of the objectives being considered. Since, an aircraft is pretty vulnerable to risks associated with it, it should be kept in mind that the project implementation should keep on monitoring the entire project during its runtime for the occurrences of any kind of associated risks.

In addition, it should be kept in mind that constant monitoring and incident management planning should be introduced as after-procedures of the project handling making a feasible project closure. Attaining all the documentations regarding the risk assessment and control of the project would make it a flawless procedure. This is the way by which the project can establish a proper closure.

Conclusion

It can be said that if all the tanks are repaired in a proper manner then the need of the maintenance of the same a can has not to be done in the upcoming year hence this will reduce the cost management of the organisation and will create more and more revenue for the organisation. Hence concluding the topic it can be said that the repairing process for the tanks must have to be done in the given time interval for the betterment of the organisation.