A Manufacturing Case Study

This chapter uses one medium-sized project carried out within an engineering company as a case study. The company is not mentioned by name but it manufactures machines used in producing a food product. The underlying theme is quality, in that the aim of completing the project was to improve the quality of the machines. The intention here is to pick out the key stages, or prerequisites for success, and to draw these key points together at the end of the chapter, to allow their use as guidelines for the planning and/or implementation of other projects.