Presenting a goal programming model in Time-Cost-Quality trade-off problem in project management

Subject Areas : Environmental Toxicology

Nima Hamta ¹ , Mohammad Ehsanifar ² , Javad Sarikhani ³

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering (Manufacturing), Arak University of Technology, Arak, Iran (Correspondence Officer)
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
3 - M.Sc., Department of Industrial Engineering, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

Received: 2017-12-23 Accepted : 2018-02-01 Published : 2020-02-20

Keywords: goal programming, Project Management, Multi-objective Decision Model, Time-Cost-Quality trade-off,

Abstract :

The time, cost and quality are important goals of each project, which project managers in order, to be succeed in the projects, always are looking for completion of them in the shortest possible time, with the lowest cost and highest quality. One of the main challenges in this case is choosing the right approach to achieve these goals. The most common approaches in this case, are using the balance technique. In fact, using this technique can be the most optimal mode of project implementation activities that the lowest and highest quality at the lowest cost, time has obtained. In this paper, we tried to develop a goal-programming model to find suitable responses for managing the cost, time and quality of the project. In order to test this model, a case study was accomplished in the projects implemented at Company Machine Sazi Arak. Computational results show the applicability and usefulness of the proposed method.