RT-440 Cross-Industry lessons to advance capital project delivery
Launched: 2025 - Expected Completion: 2027 (with a one-year initial phase to be extended based on success of the first year)
Research Questions and Objective
What are the core principles and practices adopted for project and product engineering and production/execution in key industry segments (including but not limited to aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding, commercial construction, and military projects) that can be translated to the unique requirements and constraints of heavy industrial capital projects?
Background
CII members desire to identify ways to drive step changes in the industry by looking at how different industry segments structure their business and production processes.
Hypothesis
TBD
(Expected) Outcomes
Cross-industry cases (using primary data rather than literature review only)
Paper with strategies and insights for the capital projects industry
Presentations that CII can use to position these ideas in events across different segments
Scope
Dimension | Included | Not Included + Notes |
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Industry Segments (served by results) | Heavy and Light Industrial, Buildings, Infrastructure | All segments are considered initially. Those best aligned with specific approaches will be identified as part of the work. |
Industry segments to be explored | Year 1: Aerospace (far away), shipbuilding, commercial industrial construction. Year 2: Far away segment TBD, construction segment TBD |
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Relation to CII past research | Shipbuilding research How new concepts integrate/connect to CII practices? | Detailed workflows on how concepts work with CII practices |
Technology awareness scope |
| This is not a project about management software or specific IT topics. |
Core concepts (potential) | Productization, Modularization, Standardization, governance models, delivery models, supply chain integration (each of which may become a dimension of the project), Configurators (parametric models), DfMA. | Product Interim Database (past research) |
Unit of analysis | Industry segment: product or project (e.g., F150 project) |
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Validation |
| Quantitative validation of the impact of proposed approaches |
Methodology
Step | Data/Inputs | Analysis/Methods | Results | |
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| 1 | Scoping and Industry Selection | Lit. Review Interviews | Selection criteria? Selection method? | Selected segments (1-3) OR is it products/projects? Guiding questions |
| 2 | Segment exploration | Selected segments/products or projects (?) Guiding questions Interviews Walkthroughs? | Case study methodology (?) Qualitative analysis / tagging (?) | Context qualifiers Enablers/inhibitors Productization / Production methods Barriers
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| 3 | Cross-segments / cross-case analysis | Individual segment data | Method to identify impact on capital projects (?) Diffusion characterization criteria and methods
| Production method with highest potential for capital projects Necessary changes Future scenarios Short publications (by case of segment) Summary matrix for all segments Characterize diffusion potential across CII segments |
Milestones
Roster
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