Production Technology Workbench: Developing and Scaling a Corporate Digital Product Using Agile Methods

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Ramon Chacon ◽  
Peter Dabrowski
Keyword(s):  
Production Technology ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Development Team ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Automated Data Processing ◽  
Self Service ◽  
Original Production

Objectives/Scope The production technology working environment of an oil brownfield is usually an inconsistent collection of tools and spreadsheets. In this paper, we will explore Wintershall Dea's digitalisation journey from a patchwork of tools and spreadsheets to a unified corporate Production Technology Workbench (PTW) solution starting from the replacement of an existing and ageing tool on an asset on the Norwegian continental shelf and ending by incorporating the requirements of other assets from Wintershall Dea's diverse and geographically dispersed portfolio. Methods, Procedures, Processes The project started by selecting the low-code application platform suitable to be used as the basis for the journey. After a proof-of-concept stage, an Agile project was launched owned by the asset and with a geographically dispersed Development Team conformed by Wintershall Dea's Product Owners, IT/OT experts, UX consultants and Eigen's scrum master and Development Team. After the delivery of the MVP, a second Product Owner was incorporated from a second asset. The Agile project continued to deliver on enhanced functionality and requirements that would most benefit both assets. Results, Observations, Conclusions The original production system calculations and workflows are vital for the asset. However, such patchworks are not easy to work with and complex to maintain or change. This had a negative effect on the efficiency as work is time-consuming and cumbersome. Well anomalies were often detected by actively looking for them daily in various plots, reports and platforms, and therefore the detection and response time to production events was delayed. A Production Technology dashboard with built-in / automated data processing for standard tasks provides engineers with the required transparency of data to identify issues and pain-points in a timely manner. This helps engineers to proactively intervene to mitigate unplanned losses and downtime, reducing the amount of deferred production. Investment in a corporate-wide unified (standard UX) platform, will help engineers when starting new assignments to spot issues easier and quicker independently of the asset they are assigned to. But beyond a standardization, each engineer needs to be able to create individual workflows (for effects such as scaling, slugging, sand etc.) for their needs by means of the self-service capabilities of the technology. Also, the quick access to frequently used and relevant data could be accessed through one platform, making everyday life of the production engineer more efficient and smoother. Over the timeframe of 15+ Sprints the Product Owners refined and re-defined the exact functionality they would like to see delivered. Novel/Additive Information The PTW concept seeks to minimise the time that engineers require to learn the tool and use it to inspect, analyse, and make decisions to optimise the production of the field. This is one of Wintershall Dea's first projects executed following Agile, using a geographically dispersed team, during the restrictions imposed by the pandemic. The multi-Product-Owner project approach is a novel way to govern the evolution of the tool to suit multiple stakeholders. In comparison to a E&P typical waterfall project management approach, the application of Scrum really showed added value in reducing risk early on, increasing visibility and transparency and adapting to the customer's needs (production engineers) throughout the process.

Working towards a better integration of the gender dimension: the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia approach

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agata Sangianantoni ◽  
Valeria De Paola ◽  
Viviana Perfetto ◽  
Giovanna Maracchia ◽  
Ingrid Hunstad
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Female Participation ◽  
Research Institution

<p>Research institutions play a key role in the innovation process, producing knowledge, interacting with  Universities, governmental bodies, private sector and other relevant stakeholders.</p><p>According to the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2020, gender equality will not be achieved for 99.5 years.</p><p>A Research Institution has an ethical duty in order to set an example for the social community in building a working environment where gender equality is a natural element of the organization.</p><p>Furthermore, the promotion and integration of the gender dimension within a research institution  represents an added value in terms of excellence, creativity and competitiveness.A specific management approach is needed in order to ensure an equal presence in research groups, offering opportunities for access to funds and research projects, adopting policies for the work life balance.</p><p>This document is aimed to present the overall measures and the planned actions developed within the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology for the promotion and integration of the gender dimension.</p><p>INGV, fully aware of the need to reach gender equity approves a Positive Action Plan which includes principles aimed at strengthening and enhancing female participation within geoscience community such the use of a respectful language, a diversified evaluation of the scientific production of female and male researchers in conjunction with maternity/paternity, a strong implementation of flexible work, a better organization of common working times.</p><p>Defining a joint stategy implies the mutual interaction of the overall key players among the organizational well-being, ensuring that physical, moral or social discrimination does not occur in the workplace.</p><p>Confidential Counsellor plays a crucial role in preventing, managing and solving discrimination, mobbing issues and harassment occurring in the workplaces.</p><p>We will present the ongoing activities aimed at enhancing the female component within INGV and the processes of facilitation of work organization and recognition of the extra working commitment.</p><p>We are fully aware that a real cultural revolution has been taking hold in recent decades and is progressing gradually towards goals increasingly aimed at total gender equality, but there is still a long way to go towards a better integration of the gender dimension.</p><p>The cultural development in the enhancement of gender balance in work organizations requires the affirmation of inclusive work cultures of a broad training plan that invests in the very idea of female participation.</p><p> </p><p>                                                                                                          </p><p> </p>

Effects of Menopausal Symptoms on Work Life and Organizational Environment.

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aslı Eker ◽  
Meltem Aydın Besen ◽  
Mine Yurdakul
Keyword(s):  
Work Performance ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Perceived Effects ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
The Right

Background: Every working woman has the right to continue to live as a healthy individual. The working environment has important effects on general health status and reproductive health of women. If menopouse period of women is not taken into consideration and if appropriate arrangements are not made at workplaces, their work performance and productivity decrease. It is important to have detailed knowledge about factors creating risk for health in order to develop effective policies and programs directed towards preventing them. Objective: This study was performed to determine perceived effects of menopause on work life and attitudes of an institution towards menopausal women. Methods: The study population included 419 women aged 45-55 years and working at a university. Out of 419 women, 291 could be contacted. Data were collected with a questionaire composed of questions about descriptive characteristics, effects of menopause on work life and support from and attitudes of the institution about menopause. Data collected to reveal menopausal women’s experiences at work were analyzed with statistical methods frequency, percentages and mean. Results: The mean age at which menopause started was 47 years and 89.7% of the women experienced menopausal complaints. Conclusions: Physical conditions at work and stressors were found to increase menopausal complaints and had a negative effect on work performance.

Strategy for Performing Critical Projects in a Data Center Using DevSecOps Approach and Risk Management

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-73
Author(s):  
Edgar Oswaldo Diaz ◽  
Mirna Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Service Levels ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Levels Of Service ◽  
Timely Delivery

This article describes the new needs that launched the evolution of the DevSecOps + Risk Management approach as well as a brief description of it. Also, the article presents two cases in which the DevSecOps approach was implemented. The results of implementing the approach showed that the implantation allows: (1) reinforcing the implementation of critical projects in the data center; (2) providing a strategy to automate the processes of critical mission projects in a successfully way; (3) generating added value in the timely delivery of information, with levels of service oriented to the end customer satisfaction; (4) enabling the establishment of adequate service levels to keep operational continuity and; (5) allowing both a quantitative and qualitative analysis of risk.

scholarly journals Customer Value Co-Creation Intention, Practices and Experience in Self-Service Technologies

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-26
Author(s):  
Badra Sandamali Galdolage
Keyword(s):  
Customer Value ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Encounters ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Physical Interfaces ◽  
Self Service ◽  
Self Service Technology

Many service encounters are moving from traditional physical interfaces to technologically incorporated self-service options. However, it is surprising that very limited extant literature is devoted to understanding the movement towards self-service technologies. Therefore, this study aims at understanding customer value co-creation intention, practices including both the value co-creation and co-destruction and their co-creation experiences in self-service technology context. Based on the positivistic approach, a quantitative study carried out distributing self-administered questionnaires to 600 individuals chosen based on a non-probabilistic convenience sampling method. Study found that customer value co-creation intention has significant positive effects on customer value co-creation practices and significant negative effects on customer value co-destruction in SSTs. Value co-creation practices show a strong positive effect on customer functional experiences and ‘positive emotional experiences’ while having a negative effect on ‘negative emotional experiences. In contrast, co-destruction shows inverse relationships. This study assists practitioners to understand why customers collaborate with SSTs, what they do in co-creating value and how this links with their experience. Service providers can use this understanding to facilitate customer co-creation by securing positive customer experiences and achieving competitive advantage by designing and delivering value enhancing self-service technological interfaces from both strategic and operational perspectives.

scholarly journals The role of psychological contract on employee commitment and organisational citizenship behaviour: A study of Indonesian young entrepreneurs in management action

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ade I. Anggraeni ◽  
Christantius Dwiatmadja ◽  
Ahyar Yuniawan
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Millennial Generation ◽  
Employee Commitment ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Organisational Commitment ◽  
Young Entrepreneurs

Orientation: This study aims to analyse the entrepreneurship-driven reasons and characteristics of employee management of the young generation, by analysing the role of psychological contract on employee commitment and organisational citizenship behaviour in the light of the characteristics of the millennial generation as the owners of small and medium-sized enterprises.Research purpose: The main objective of this study was to empirically analyse the effect of the psychological contract and organisational support on the organisational commitment and organisational citizenship behaviour of the employees of small-scale enterprises run by young entrepreneurs, especially in the cohort generation.Motivation for the study: This study attempts to analyse the characteristics of the millennial generation as the owners of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in running the business by examining their managerial characteristics in managing workplace relationship that aims to achieve the stakeholder expectations and improve both commitment and organisational citizenship behaviour of employees.Research design, approach and method: Data were collected in the SMEs owned by young entrepreneurs in a city in Indonesia involving 150 respondents. The research model was tested using Structural Equation Modelling with analysis of moment structure (AMOS).Main findings: The results showed that the employee citizenship behaviour is influenced by the organisational commitment. The commitment of employees was formed by the ability of business owners to understand the needs and expectations of employees regarding opportunities of self-development, pleasant working environment, the benefit as the workload and the work challenge.Practical and managerial implications: This study implies the need for academic institutions and policy makers to get involved in addressing the rising phenomenon of entrepreneurship among the young generation.Contribution and added-value: This study mainly considered the characteristics of young entrepreneurs as the main factor in explaining the success of employee management relationship of SMEs.

scholarly journals Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Safety: Evidence from Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2649
Author(s):  
Ja Eun Koo ◽  
Eun Sun Ki
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Firm Value ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Workplace Injuries ◽  
Employee Safety ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Corporate Social

Employees are an integral part of a company’s sustainable growth and they expect a safe working environment. Therefore, analyzing the factors that affect employee safety is important. In this context, we analyze the effect of corporate social responsibility investment on employee safety. Using Korean listed company data from 2012 to 2014, we regress corporate social responsibility scores on workplace injuries. The Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression results show that higher corporate social responsibility scores are associated with fewer working days lost owing to workplace injuries. Moreover, while workplace injuries have a clear negative effect on firm value, corporate social responsibility activity significantly reduces this negative effect. Our findings imply that investment in corporate social responsibility can improve workplace safety and contribute to a company’s sustainable growth.

Investigation of Transient Phenomena in the Machine Aggregate with Gear Transmission

2015 ◽  
Vol 808 ◽  
pp. 315-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jozef Steinhauser ◽  
Milan Naď
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Production Technology ◽  
Direct Current ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Gear Transmission ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Transient Phenomena ◽  
Mutual Relation ◽  
Basic Parameters ◽  
Machine Aggregate

The main focus of contribution is analysis of impact of selected parameters real gearing on dynamics of machine aggregate with gearing transmission. From point of gearing a lot of factors influence on the dynamics of the machine aggregate. The internal ones are mainly the choice of gearing basic parameters, material, production technology, accuracy of toothing and gearing clearance, but deformations, production accuracy, wear and working environment. Specifically, the electromechanical system consisting from direct-current motor and mechanical gearbox with gearing clearance is solved. Analysed machine aggregate coming out from fundamental dynamic model, composed from basic subsystems: source, gearing and driven mechanism, an impact to gearing and a mutual relation between gearing and the rest of system are looked for.

Catering for the needs of fauna in fire management: science or just wishful thinking?

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael F. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Fire Management ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Community Diversity ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Ecological Data ◽  
Management Regime ◽  
Negative Effect

Ecological fire management in Australia is often built on an assumption that meeting the needs of plant species will automatically meet the needs of animal species. However, the scarcity of ecological data on the needs of fauna in relation to fire undermines the confidence managers should place in current popular frameworks for planning ecological burning. Such frameworks are built almost entirely around the goal of maintaining plant community diversity. They provide little guidance to managers regarding the characteristics of desirable ‘mosaics’ (e.g. patch size, connectivity or composition of age-since-burnt classes) or the timing of fires in relation to faunal population trends linked to other cycles (e.g. El Niño events). Claims by agencies of adopting an adaptive management approach (‘learning by doing’) to cope with a dearth of knowledge are credible only if monitoring and evaluation are carried out and future actions are modified in light of new evidence. Much monitoring of fauna is of such a small scale and short duration that the statistical likelihood of detecting a positive or negative effect of the management regime is minute. Such shortcomings will only be overcome through broad-scale and/or long-term studies of fauna. The funding for such research is unlikely to be forthcoming if fire ecologists and land managers convey the impression that the current data are adequate for the implementation of the current planning frameworks.

Personality determinants of need for interaction with a retail employee and its impact on self-service technology (SST) usage intentions

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun-Joo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Thinking Style ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Experiential Thinking ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Self Service

Purpose The purpose of this study was, first, to link interpersonal-hedonic values, intuitive-experiential thinking style, external locus of control (LOC) and sociability to the need for interaction with a retail employee; and, second, to empirically test the moderating effect of the time convenience of self-service technologies (SSTs) on the proposed relationships in the model. Design/methodology/approach This study was conducted in a retail setting in which an automated checkout process occurred with the use of self-checkout systems. A self-administered, online survey approach was utilized targeting consumer panel members. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings Interpersonal-hedonic values, external LOC and sociability emerged as reliable antecedents of the need for interaction with a retail employee, whereas the intuitive-experiential thinking style did not. This study also showed the inverse relationship between the need for interaction with a retail employee and the intentions to use SSTs. In relation to the moderating role of the time convenience of SSTs, the positive effects of interpersonal-hedonic values, intuitive-experiential thinking style, external LOC and sociability on the need for interaction with a retail employee were shown lesser for consumers with low levels of the time convenience of SSTs. The negative effect of the need for interaction with a retail employee on the intentions to use SSTs was shown to be greater for consumers with low levels of the time convenience of SSTs. Originality/value The present study adds to a growing body of literature on SSTs by exploring the causal and hierarchical effects of personality traits that determine the intentions to use SSTs.

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