N.V. Gliznutsa, P.E. Romanov

The objective of the creation of a project management system is to ensure an end-to-end monitoring of the project progress. Here, a «project» stands for an aggregate of operations aimed at designing samples of specialized equipment (products). The project director-s main task during a product-s design is to provide for managing the product-s design process at all stages of its lifecycle. At present, the project director faces the following difficulties in the course of controlling a product-s design: 1. Absence of comprehensive and reliable information as to the product design work progress. 2. Impossibility to control the compliance with the work schedule on a real-time basis. 3. No interrelation between work schedules and the product design outcome. In order to eliminate the above-mentioned issues, the Project Management system has been developed, based on the Windchill product lifecycle management (PLM) system, with the following interrelated context structure: 1. Product division scheme. 2. Work schedule templates for the product division scheme components, each item in the schedule having a result anchored to it. 3. Top-level work schedule. 4. Project data storage (files containing the work results). The proposed Project Management system, based on the Windchill PLM system and adjusted to the requirements of the developer enterprise, ensures: 1) a connection between work schedules and the results of projects completed (documentation elaborated); 2) synchronization of top- and bottom-level work schedules; 3) implementation of an end-to-end monitoring of the project progress - from the top-level to assignment of tasks to performers.