ABSTRACT
A project is a collection of interdependent activities or bits of work that are constrained and reliant on a set of predefined production factors. The term project is composed of the suffix ‘-ject’, which means to throw, and the prefix ‘pro’, which implies before or earlier than. The goal of planning a project and its tasks is to estimate the completion date for monitoring and regulating purposes.
A systematic approach to a project could aid a production planner in efficiently managing a project. The essential tool an operations planner can use to track and manage a project in a stylish manner is a Gantt chart. This chapter supplies numerical examples of the critical path technique for project planning and scheduling.
The Critical path method finds scheduling information for each activity within a project for improved production process and resource planning, monitoring, and control. To schedule the project's tasks, the method figures out when each task begins and ends. To estimate the project's completion time and the schedules for each work, a production planner must define the order of operations, preferably using a precedence diagram that depicts the relationships between the tasks. The critical network route is then found by analyzing each task sequence from the beginning to the end of the project.
