Increase of development success through an automated measurement and visualization of project progress

制造企业面临着在产品开发项目中无法实现其技术和经济目标的挑战。由于倒退支付和形象损失而导致的竞争力下降是其后果。为了在复杂性不断增加的情况下实现与质量、成本和时间相关的既定开发目标，有效和高效的项目管理是至关重要的。除了项目启动、定义、计划和执行外，项目控制也是一个关键的成功因素。如果项目经理在项目的任何时候都知道项目的确切进度，他就可以在出现质量问题或延迟之前重新调整。现有的用于监控和可视化项目进度的方法和工具可以通过项目员工的手动请求生成所需的信息。这导致了大量的管理工作和较长的报告间隔。为了增加产品开发项目的成功，从而提高制造公司的竞争力，必须创造监测和可视化项目进展的新方法。这些新方法需要自动生成项目进度。其中一个机会是产品开发的it系统中的数据（例如CAD和过程模型）。该数据包含项目进度信息，可用于项目进度的自动监控和可视化。研究项目的主要目标是通过自动化的项目进度监控和开发活动的可视化来创建新的评估和控制机制，从而增加产品开发项目的成功。这种创新的方法通过从产品开发项目中使用的it系统内的数据中自动收集所需的信息来区别于现有的方法。因此，更频繁和更详细的进度监控是可能的，这将导致项目成功的增加，从而获得竞争优势。

Manufacturing companies are facing the challenge of not achieving their technical and economic goals in product development projects. Decreasing competitiveness due to regress payments and image losses are the consequences. To achieve the defined development goals concerning quality, costs and time despite the increasing complexity, an effective and efficient project management is of utmost important. Beside project initiation, definition, planning and execution, project controlling is a critical success factor. If the project manager would know the exact progress of the project at any time in the project he could readjust before quality issues or delays would occur. Existing methods and tools for monitoring and visualizing the project progress generate the needed information over manual requests from the project employees. This causes high administrative efforts and long intervals between the reports. To increase the success of product development projects and thus the competitiveness of manufacturing companies, it is essential to create new approaches for monitoring and visualizing the project progress. These new approaches need to generate the project progress automatically. One opportunity for this is provided by the data within the IT-Systems of the product development (e. g. CAD and process models). This data contains information of the project progress, which could be used for automatically project progress monitoring and visualization. The main objective of the research project is to increase the success of product development projects by creating new assessment and control mechanisms through automated project progress monitoring and visualization of the development activities. This innovative approach differentiates from existing approaches by automated gathering of the needed information from the data within the IT-Systems used in product development projects. Thus a more often and more detailed progress monitoring is possible, which leads to an increase of the project success and thus to a competitive advantage.