Discussion
Maintaining the sustainability in the engineering helps to gain the quality outcome and maintaining the elements of the environment. The sustainability in the mechanical engineering can be achieved through different steps like using the material of the developing a project or using advanced technology. It has been seen that due to the change in life style along with the environmental and political view have seen different constraints for proper living. In this context maintain the sustainability in the engineering practice is important( Álvarez, Bárcena and González, 2016). Sustainable development defines the process of developing the product that will support human activities maintaining sustained perpetuity. There are different practices those can be adopted for the sustainable development (Tao et al. 2017). All these development techniques are concerned about environmental, social and economic values. The main goal of sustainable development is generating the balanced solution on the basis of the three aspects and the sustainable engineering principals. The main difference between the traditional engineering practices and sustainable engineering practices is that the development of the traditional engineering practices is concerned about the consequences of the project development in local context. On the other hand the development of the sustainable engineering practices is concerned about the global consequences of the development of the project. The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the ways or the techniques the managers have to adopt in order to gain the sustainable development in the development of mechanical engineering project. In this context characterization of the sustainable development in the mechanical engineering is needed to be done in order to indentify the definition of maintaining sustainability in mechanical engineering practice.
Characterization of sustainable mechanical engineering helps to identify the areas where the sustainable development can be achieved . There are some ways through which the project manager can manage the project and achieve the sustainable outcome in the mechanical engineering. There are certain factors like development of the projects, materials used during the development and the technology used in the process are responsible for maintaining sustainability in the development of the project.
The project managers can maintain the sustainable development through adaptation of the 4R. in order to maintain the sustainability in the development of the mechanical products the supply of the resources those are sustainable in terms of environment an d the techniques adopted in the course of development is needed to be energy efficient. The materials used during the development of the project are needed to fulfill the attributes of 4R (Recycle, reuse, repair and reduce). However, maintain 4Rs can enhance the sustainability of the overall development, there are other factors those have the large contribution for the development of the sustainable products. Various factors include the technique of drawing the raw material from the earth along with the manipulation and manufacturing process. However, it has been mentioned that the use of the new technologies will help to reduce the negative impact on the environment for the development of the product, it is impossible to achieve full sustainable product through sustainable development.
Maintaining sustainable development method
The development of the projects in mechanical engineering can be done through traditional project management methods. However, the significant of choosing the sustainable project management for the development of the mechanical engineering project makes the project manager to go for sustainable development of the project(Nematollahi et al. 2017). There are some difference between the tradition development of the mechanical engineering projects and the products developed through the sustainable development of the project (Domingo-Espin et al. 2015). In the traditional approach the focus is only o the technical aspects of the development. However, in the sustainable development the focus is on both technical and non technical aspects of the project. It has been seen that due to considering the non technical aspects of the project the development of the project can give energy efficient solutions.
There are principals which are related to the sustainable development of the products in the mechanical engineering. However, application of those products will not enhance the sustainability of the final outcome. There are other factors which are needed to be maintained during the development phase (Roufechaei, Bakar and Tabassi 2014). The key requirements those are needed to be considered by the manager during the development of the project are sustainable processes, sustainable resources, reduction of the negative impact in environment and maintaining the other aspects of the sustainability. The project manager needs to encourage the project team to use sustainable resources. The level of sustainability of the resources are dependent on the scarcity and their importance in the ecosystem. While using the energy during the development phase, the use of the renewable energy can be done. The mention of Exergy analysis can be done in this case. Exergy analysis is better than the conventional energy analysis which evaluates the usefulness of the material or the energy quantities. This analysis supports the conservation of the energy.
Maintaining sustainable risk management framework for maintaining the sustainability in the mechanical engineering:
In order to achieve the sustainability in the project development, the project managers can adopt SUSOP framework. This framework is used for sustainable management of risks. During the development of the mechanical engineering project, risks can be involved in the different modules of the project. The elimination of the risks cannot be done complicatedly (Thangavel and Sridevi 2016). However, risks involved in the project can be mitigated (Winnard et al. 2014). Handling of the risks in sustainable way can enhance the overall sustainability of the project. There are three main components in this risk management framework- identification of the sustainable opportunities and the identification of the risks associated with each off the working module, assessment of the sustainable development , and support for making of the decisions (Álvarez, Bárcena and González 2016). All the phases of the project should gone through the steps of this risk management framework, and the gathered output have been stored at the sustainability register. The implementation of the sustainable factors in the project and exploring the opportunities in the project can be done on the basis of the information gained from the sustainable register. It can be said the sustainability of the project is an integrated part of the engineering design and it is the responsibility of the project manager to im[pose the sustainability in the development phase of the project.
Identification of the significance of sustainable development in mechanical engineering
The sustainability analysis process is the indicator for the project manager to measure this attribute present in this project (Wasson 2015). The selection of the indicator is important as it helps to divide the operations and the project set which is defined by PMBOK. The main objective of the indicator is setting the baseline criteria for the preparation, designing and the execution of the current project(Goddek et al. 2015). This will help the project to achieve the sustainability during the development phase (Suthersan et al. 2016). The indirect indicator is concerned about the implementing the definition of the sustainability with respect to the social , economic and environmental aspects. In some cases, this indicator indicates the ability of the organization to recycle the products and components.
It has been seen that the emission from the different sources during the development of the mechanical engineering projects are affecting the environment in a negative way. Project manager can use advanced technologies to control both the direct and the indirect emission of the particles and the components (Jiang et al.2016). This will reduce the emission of the greenhouse gas in the environment. Apart from that use of renewable energy and the sustainable components will help to develop the green technology. Proper planning for the sustainable development will help to capture different dimension of the sustainability. Apart from that the sustainability can be infused in the project development life cycle.
The designing of the product helps to maintain the sustainability of overall project. Sustainable design will help to deliver the outcome of the project in more efficient way through providing the energy efficient solutions (Foteinis and Tsoutsos 2017). Apart from that the use of emerging technologies in the designing of the machines will help t deliver more sustainable solutions through reducing the emission rate, power consumption , technology of recycling (Speck 2015). Moreover , the smart designs of the equipments and the products will help the organization to gain consumer satisfaction. This can be regarded as the social sustainability. Apart from that the multiple use of the product will help to deliver the cost effective solutions which also supports the economic attribute of the sustainability.
The sustainable development of the engineering projects should follow the ethics and laws during the development of the project (Weichhart et el. 2016). It is the responsibility of the project manager to implement the system in such a way that supports the existing laws and regulations regarding the project development. The concept of the sustainability covers the sustainable growth of economic, social and environmental factors. In this situation, it is expected that the product which is claimed to be sustainable has maintained all the security and environmental parameter during the development. Maintaining the laws and the ethics during the development will help the project of the project to meet all the quality standards along with the requirements.
Achieving the sustainability in the mechanical engineering projects
The development of the project needs the project team for the development. The project team can be leaded by the project manager or project head. The implementation of the rules and the decision making are the responsibility of the project manager, however, proper implementation of the functionality is largely dependent on the project team members (Alves and Alves 2015). The members of the tam are needed to be aware about the technology used in the project and their contribution in the project. Moreover, all the members of the project should dedicated to the work (Najiha, Rahman and Kadirgama 2015). The duty of the project manager for maintaining the sustainability during the development of the project . This can be achieved through maintaining the communication flow in the team. The flow of communication can be done through sharing of the knowledge (Singh et al. 2018). In case, if the member of the team faces a problem regarding the implementation of the functionality in the project, proper communication and the sharing of the knowledge between different team members can be helpful.
The project manager is responsible for selecting the resources for the development of the engineering projects. In this case, the project manager can choose the resources those will help to prevent environment pollution (Ciocci 2016). Apart from that the project manager can obtain the use of the renewable energy for the development of the project. However, there are certain concerns regarding the use of the renewable energy as it may enhance the cost of the whole project.
Life cycle assessment is an important step that can be adopted by the project manager for maintaining the sustainability of the project. The development of the mechanical engineering project needs to follow the life cycle for the developing the project (Álvarez, Bárcena and González 2016). There are different stages in the life cycle of the project (Álvarez, Bárcena and González 2016). Project manager can deploy different sustainable technologies for each step in order to maintain the sustainability of the final product (Dewald and Fromhold-Eisebith 2015). In this context, the project manager can review the components and elements those can become constraints in the sustainable development during the gathering of the requirements. Apart from that during the designing phase the use of the material can be selected in properly. In this context it can be said that the geoploymer components can be used instead of traditional cement binder as it will enhance the sustainability of the product.
Maintaining sustainable risk management framework for maintaining the sustainability in the mechanical engineering
From the above literature review it can be said that the maintaining the sustainability of the engineering project depends on both technical and non technical factors (Menassa and Baer 2014). The synchronization between all the functionalities is dependent on the managerial skills of the project manager. However, in the above literature review the technical details regarding the maintenance of the sustainability in the mechanical project has not been described in a proper way. The literature review has covered the sustainability in the project in broader perspective.
Certain recommendations can be made on the basis of the literature review regarding the maintenance of the sustainability in the construction project. It has been said that maintain sustainability in the mechanical engineering project is the responsibility of the project manager. In this case, the project manager is needed to be aware that the sustainability of the mechanical engineering project covers environmental, social and economic factors. The main objective of the sustainable development of the project is to deliver the product that will support the sustainability of the environment. It is recommended that the project manager should chose the component of the project those are not harmful for the environment. Apart from that maintaining the cost of the developing the project is an important factor as it will serve the economic sustainability. The designing of the products would be environment friendly so that the products can be used in multipurpose. Apart from that the project manager should impose the environment friendly substances in the life cycle assessment of developing of products. Maintaining ethics and the rules and regulations are important for the development of the products. Moreover, the project managers should encourage the environment friendly products instead of using the traditional elements for the development. Mechanical engineering is applicable in different domains that includes the manufacturing industry. In this case, the deployment of the new technology can be beneficial to give sustainable production in efficient way.
Conclusion
The discussion is regarding the sustainability in the mechanical engineering and the role of the project managers in maintaining the sustainability in the mechanical engineering. In this context the concept of the sustainability and the way this attribute can be maintained in the project management has been discussed with respect to the different journals and the articles. In this context the sustainability has been evaluated from the different perspective of the mechanical engineering. It can be said from the discussion that the team members of the project management team is also responsible along with the project manager of the team for maintain the sustainability of the project. In order to maintain the sustainability, different technical factors along with the non technical factors are needed to be considered. In this context, it can be said that the project manager is needed to be well versed about the latest sustainable technology and should aware about the consequences of maintaining ethics along with implementation of managerial quality during the development cycle.
Maintaining sustainability analysis process
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