Improvement of Valtech workflow: a pilot study

Valtech Fabrication Ltd.（Valtech）专注于与炼油厂等相关的项目。它提供了一系列的产品和服务，包括制造旋风分离器，空气分配器，提升管和其他复杂的耐火衬里催化裂化设备。由于Valtech的业务在过去15年中经历了显着增长，因此需要对其组织进行彻底的转型，使其更好地配备适合不断增长的市场份额的竞争力。在Valtech实施转型的过程中，我们发现，定制化的工作流管理解决方案是公司迎接机遇和挑战的必要条件。由于EBD是一种可以帮助Valtech开发和实施员工和管理人员易于遵循的工作流程的方法，Valtech将与曾博士的团队合作改进其工作流程，这将涉及工作流程的建模，测试和优化。该项目旨在解决Valtech在过去十五年的快速增长中出现的一个关键和紧迫的问题：如何提高竞争力，以高效和有效地执行越来越多的合同。基于曾博士的研究团队开发的基于环境的设计（EBD）方法的许多成功应用，Valtech计划将EBD的应用扩展到其业务流程操作中的工作流改进。将EBD整合到工作流程中将提高分析能力，并为Valtech团队提供更大的信心，以确定设计和工艺机会。本项目旨在解决公司快速成长过程中出现的关键问题：如何提高组织能力，以实现高效和有效的业务运营。许多加拿大中小企业都面临着同样的问题。EBD代表了未来解决这些问题的可能途径。

Valtech Fabrication Ltd. (Valtech) has focused on projects related to oil refineries, among others. It provides anumber of products and services, including fabrication of Cyclones, Air Distributors, Riser Lines and othercomplex refractory lined FCC equipment. As Valtech businesses have experienced a significant increase overthe past 15 years, it needs a radical transformation of its organization into one that is better equipped with thecompetencies suitable for the increasing market share. In implementing the transformation in Valtech, it wasfound that a customized solution for workflow management is necessary for the company to meet theopportunities and challenges. As EBD is a methodology that could help Valtech develop and implement aworkflow that is easy to follow for the employees and managers, Valtech will work with Dr. Zeng's team on theimprovement of its workflows, which will involve modeling, testing and optimizing of the workflow. Thisproject aims to solve a critical and urgent problem arisen from the fast growth of Valtech over the past fifteenyears: how to improve the competencies for efficient and effective implementation of growing number ofcontracts. Based on many successful applications of Environment-Based Design (EBD) methodology, whichhas been developed by Dr. Zeng's research team, Valtech planned to extend EBD's application to the workflowimprovement in the operation of its business process. Integrating EBD into the work process will enhance theanalytical abilities and provide greater confidence to Valtech team in identifying design and processopportunities. The present project aims to address the critical problem arisen from the fast growth of thecompany: how to improve the organizational competencies for an efficient and effective business operation.Many Canadian SMEs would share the same problem. EBD represents a possible future avenue to tackle suchissues.