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This chapter analyses the complex relationships between the different departments of an enterprise or a project which more often than not seem to work as if they were separate entities, because of lack of communication or personal problems between members of the staff. The selection and use of specialized software to solve this problem is examined here, aiming at installing a system where all the project or business information is available, without ‘noise’ or transmission errors, and accessible only to people authorized to know it. Besides, this system lets the project manager and the financial department to have a clear picture in real time of what is going on the project, considering any transaction – whatever its nature – related with the project.
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Tunnel to carry utility lines, in this case electric wire for the outlet gate for the water discharge conduit.
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In a relational database, information or data is stored in tables with rows (tuple) and with columns (fields) which are independent of the hardware used. These tables are built with relationships between them which permit their navigation.
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An American engineer considered ‘The father of quality control'. The Shewhart chart, invented by Walter Shewhart in the second decade of the twentieth Century is a graphical plotting of certain characteristics of a product, establishing positive and negative deviations limits regarding an acceptable central value; it is utilized in quality control in manufacturing. Measures taken during manufacturing and plotted in this chart must be as close as possible to the acceptable central value and never surpass both limits. If in a lot there are a large amount of items whose measured characteristics lie consistently beyond the limits, it is considered that the product does not meet the quality standards established by the manufacturer, and then it is destroyed.
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Munier, N. (2013). Project Communications and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). In: Project Management for Environmental, Construction and Manufacturing Engineers. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4476-9_11
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