Project Production Institute
Gary Fischer closes the 12th Annual PPI Symposium by distilling the day’s common themes: PPM’s impact on speed, the necessity of integrating product and process design, and how production thinking provides a framework that, once seen, permanently changes how you view projects and the world.
Gary Fischer closes the 12th Annual PPI Symposium by reflecting on the common denominators and differentiators that emerged across a day packed with presentations from practitioners, researchers, and industry leaders working at the frontier of project production management.
Common denominators heard throughout the day:
Differentiators that production management provides:
The results shared today are repeatable. Anyone applying these methods will see huge gains in schedule, cost, and ultimately value. The invitation stands: go deeper through PPI’s educational programs and transform how you see projects forever.
[00:00:00] Gary Fischer, PE: Well, boy, there was a lot packed in today. I taking notes all day long. And I think for me personally, I, I hope you’ve jotted some notes in your own takeaways, but I kinda have things in two different buckets. Maybe the first one I’d call some common denominators I heard as a theme throughout the whole day.
[00:00:20] Gary Fischer, PE: The big one that was, looks like the freshing red light. If you wanna go fast, PPM is what you need. Ppms impact on project speed was you saw example after example, of that. It’s the most effective way to go fast. Production plans and thinking is required to make good decisions.
[00:00:41] Gary Fischer, PE: How that informs good decision making, like what to do offsite, what to do on site, just even the the, modeling of, the approval process and the decisions made within that. It just it, gets you focused on making the decisions for the right reasons. In the right way. I just, that just jumped out at me across the board today.
[00:01:05] Gary Fischer, PE: And then product design and process design have gotta go hand in hand if you really want to have a successful project. The constructor involvement and the engineering is critical. Getting those two functions to work together to code, develop code engineer. Um the project is just absolutely es essential focus on value.
[00:01:29] Gary Fischer, PE: I heard that a lot today. When we focus on value, we do these things differently. And then how PPM takes work out of the process or takes waste out of the process and create stability. Things just. Flow. To me those were all like common denominators I heard through the day. And then I’d say another bucket I maybe put called differentiators that production management really provides a framework to think and behave as a builder, not a buyer.
[00:02:02] Gary Fischer, PE: You know, complex projects are not like buying pencils. As Ed is famously quoted and it gives you a a, means to think about how to build your capacity, utilization whip, how to manage variability, all those things just causes you to think so much differently. And then, um, really, PPM prides a, framework and kind of how to see the world in a in a, lot of ways.
[00:02:30] Gary Fischer, PE: You know, we’re the example of Starbucks. Bob’s putting tables together all the way to, to, uh what Boian and, Brian talked about. It just gives you a framework to understand how things get done, whether it’s a complex facility or you’re, you know, you’re in Starbucks. It just continues to resonate to me how important that is.
[00:02:53] Gary Fischer, PE: And when you, once you see it, you can’t unsee it. You know, once you attend one of our education, uh, workshops, I promise you you’ll never be able to see a project the same. You’ll never see the world the same again. It really changes your perception of things. Uh, that’s just a few of my takeaways. I’d be really interested in yours.
[00:03:12] Gary Fischer, PE: Uh, drop me a note. Uh, my email’s at the production Institute website, uh, or I’m on LinkedIn. You know, drop me a note there. I’d love to hear what you got out of today and your, your takeaways. And again, if you’re inspired to go deeper, please take advantage of our education opportunities. They’re there to help you perform.
[00:03:31] Gary Fischer, PE: They help you to get the kind of results that you heard about today is, it’s absolutely repeatable. Anybody grabbing these methods, applying production management, you’re gonna get huge gains. In schedule. And as a result in cost and ultimately value to, uh, yourselves or your customers it makes a big difference.
[00:03:51] Gary Fischer, PE: So thanks to all our pre presenters for investing their time and donating that to us today and doing the prep work. Special thanks to Kristin and Eva and behind the scenes. I tell you, without them this wouldn’t have happened. Uh, we really much appreciate their, support and dedication to making this an exceptional effort.
[00:04:08] Gary Fischer, PE: So with that, we’re gonna wrap up and sign it off. Thank you.
PPI works to increase the value Engineering and Construction provides to the economy and society. PPI researches and disseminates knowledge related to the application of Project Production Management (PPM) and technology for the optimization of complex and critical energy, industrial and civil infrastructure projects.
The Project Production Institute (PPI) exists to enhance the value Engineering and Construction provides to the economy and society. We are working to:
1) Make PPM the dominant paradigm for the delivery of capital projects,
2) Have project professionals use PPM principles, methods and tools in their everyday work,
3) Create a thriving market for PPM services and tools,
4) Fund and advance global PPM research, development and education (higher and trade), and
5) Ensure PPM is acknowledged, required and specified as a standard by government and regulatory agencies.
To that end, the Institute partners with leading universities to conduct research and educate students and professionals, produces an annual Journal to disseminate knowledge, and hosts events and webinars around the world to discuss pertinent and timely topics related to PPM. In order to advance PPM through access and insight, the Institute’s Industry Council consists of experts and leaders from companies such as Chevron, Google, Microsoft and Merck.
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