Tuesday 17 December 2013

NETWORK SCHEDULING BY PERT/CPM

PERT- Program Evaluation Review Technique
CPM-Critical Path Method

NETWORK SCHEDULING
Its a technique used for planning and scheduling large project.Its a method for minimizing troubleshoots such as delays, interruption.
There are two basic planning & Control techniques.:
   PERT
   CPM

NETWORK:
Its the graphical representation of logically and sequentially connected arrows and nodes representing activities and events in the project.Its an arrow diagram.

ACTIVITY:
An activity represents some action and its  a time concuming effort necessary to complete a parrticular part of the overall project.

EVENT:
The beginning and the end points of an activity are called events/nodes.


MERGE EVENT:
Its not necessary for an event to be ending event for only one activity as it can be the ending event of two or more activity such a event is defined as merge event.

BURST EVENT:
If the event happens to be the beginning event of two or more activities then they are called as Burst event.


We have the following types of activities

1. Preceding
2. Succeeding
3.Concurrent
4.Dummy Activity

DUMMY ACTIVITY:
Certain activities which neither consume type or resources but are used simply to represent a connection/link between events are known as Dummy Activity.



CONSTRUCTION OF NETWORK:
Construct the network for the project whose activities and preceding relationships are shown below

ACTIVITIES            A              B               C                D             E             F
IMMEDIATE    
PREDECESSOR     -                 A              A                -               D           B,C,E



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