Organizational simulation of complex process engineering projects in the chemical industry

In this paper, we demonstrate that, with a suitable instrument for project engineering, the project structure and resource allocations can be modeled and simulated even for weakly structured and distributed development projects. The instrument was developed with the goal of providing project planners and project leaders with a simple tool for fast and intuitive model development for project planning. For this reason the tool should make the comparison of different work organizational project constellations under the consideration of various boundary conditions possible. First results from industrial application of the instrument indicate that project concepts can be compared with each other and then optimized with regard to selected target criteria.