ONLY FLEXIBILITY CAN ADAPT TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD,

AND ONLY SOLIDIFICATION CAN UNIFY

THE WHOLE SYSTEM

Jun Jiang and Yanhui Xie

UFIDA Software Co., Ltd., No.68 Beiqing Road, Haidian District, 100094, Beijing, China

Keywords: Information technology, Engineering construction industry, Flexible application, Multi-management model.

Abstract: As a newly developing mode of transportation, this paper use the railway as an example to analysis the

application condition of the information system in the engineering construction industry, and points out the

demand of information production to adapt to the changes in the enterprise management of the engineering

construction industry.

1 THE ENGINEERING AND

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

WHICH IS REFORMING

CONSTANTLY NEEDS

SUPPORTING MANAGEMENT

Nowadays Chinese economy is under a stable and

high-speed development state in recent years, GDP

has been increasing at double-digit rate, and The

Construction industry, as a pillar industry, plays a

more and more important role in the National

economy’s development. At the same time, we also

must see that China's construction industry is still

traditional, low-tech, extensive in business

management, not obvious in core competitiveness,

and has small differences between enterprises, relies

on low-cost expansion to develop. In order to make

Construction enterprises to develop sustainably and

healthily, we must change the traditional extensive

management model, and transfer to road which

relies on technological progress and improved

quality of the new industrialization path.

With the preliminary establishment of Socialism

market economic system and The promulgation of

the Company Law, The State-owned enterprises

began to establish modern enterprise system thriving

across the country .Data indicates that: More than

69% of state-owned manufacturing enterprises in

our country have completed the restructuring of the

modern enterprise system. As the change of the

company subject and the system, It’s inevitable that

it will bring the change of business organization and

the adjustment of processes continuous, while the

enterprise system continue to improve and match

with the modern enterprise system, which managers

need a more flexible system of organizations and

management processes to adapt to the changing. In

this process, enterprises also need a more quickly

respond to market, adapt to market and build a agile

construction.

All of these require the management model and

the management tools, which are match able with it.

And now, as an essential auxiliary system of the

information system to the modern business

management, we need a deep study and discussion

on whether it can meet and adapt to the requirements

of the business management.

2 CONFUSION OF APPLICATION

AND IMPLEMENTATION IN

INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS OF

ENGINEERING

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY.

China's reform and opening up and the process of

modernization are develop quickly, the domestic

market has become increasingly international, while

the international market has become increasingly

domestic. With the opportunities increasing,

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ONLY FLEXIBILITY CAN ADAPT TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD, AND ONLY SOLIDIFICATION CAN UNIFY THE WHOLE SYSTEM.

DOI: 10.5220/0003603303020306

In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (BIS-2011), pages 302-306

ISBN: 978-989-8425-54-6

 2011 SCITEPRESS (Science and Technology Publications, Lda.)

challenge and competition are become more and

more serious, which makes it very obvious that

construction needs information. In recent years, IT

technology has widely developed, which in

Financial Management, Office automation, Real-

time monitoring site, Remote communication, in

construction field. Part of the management

department has established computer management

information system which covering the management

functions, such as Material Management System,

Project Budget Software, Progress Management

Software, which can inspire the Industry

management.

But the informatization of the whole industry

have suffered a lot of frustration, which can be

described as a failure rather than an evaluate, in

recent years. By the practice from the author in the

information technology industry, the following

factors cannot be ignored.

2.1 Confined to Department Classes

and Difficult to Expand

Because information tools that most of construction

industry has used are in the level of department

classes and standards are not uniform, it make

interchanges and interconnections very hard. While

most of companies of construction industry are ran

in the collectivize operation, they need some

projects in the side of collectivize control to raise

companies’ comprehensive management levels.

High-speed railway system consists of High-speed

railway operation, High-speed railway facilities and

High-speed railway management policy. As a

subsystem of the transportation system, it’s most

important function is to satisfy Users’ travel demand.

Therefore, this paper used the concept that high-

speed railway is service in "person" as a starting

point, and the influencing factors of User s’ travel

choice as the breakthrough point, to research high-

speed railway and the influencing factors of uses’

travel choice. Through data analysis and

investigation, this paper determined high-speed

railway users’ travel choice index system, including

five influencing factors of high-speed railway users’

travel choice and one factors for evaluation of the

result.

If this problem was not solved, at certain stage, it

would make the management software cannot meet

the demands of upper management and gradually

cannot use. For an instance, it is unable to complete

the task of issuing control indexes and providing

related superior comprehensive reports.

2.2 Disability to Support the

Multi-organisation and

Multi-format

In fact, construction industry many braches, most

construction enterprise are not satisfied with the

traditional flat industrial structure. For example,

most enterprise are developing in diversity which in

the low level and repeat competition in simple civil

engineering, and a large construction group always

has subsidiaries including housing construction

company, installation company, road and bridge

corporation and so on. Of course, all of these

subsidiaries are different in management for

business difference. But now, the product which has

applied in much enterprise can't satisfy the

requirement which can apply in multi format in

multi-organizational group. As times go, this

situation will constrain the enterprise's management

and accessing to information. What’s more, it will

lead to that data can't be generated by system.

This section must be in one column.

2.3 Disability in Application of

Multi-mode

It has many management-modes For a construction

enterprise in a period .Such as, governance structure

in project-management will have a numerous modes

including Legal management project, contractor

management projector-operating items. This

situation will last a long time for the Chinese

national conditions. How to make our software

system to meet the requirements totally is not

unclearly.

All above make enterprise informatization get

away from the management practice in the process

of informatization .As a result; It caused the failure

of the establishment of the informatization.

Four-stage method is based on investigation and

familiar with the situation of traffic, finally predict

the future distribution. The basic steps are traffic

generation 、 traffic distribution 、 traffic model

selected 、 traffic assignment. We can gain some

parameters about cargo flow through investigation.

But it is difficult to implement, it will cost a lot of

manpower, material and financial resources, so the

minimum cost maximum flow is better to optimize

the road network. The so-called minimum cost

maximum flow problem is finding a maximum flow

f, simultaneously the total cost is minimum.

Studying this problem is trying to find out: from A

to B, how to choose the path, how to assign traffic

flow, in order to achieve minimum cost. The

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meaning of cost can be defined as carbon emissions

in this model.

3 THE INFORMATION SYSTEM

EXPECTED BY US -- THE

INFORMATION SYSTEM

BASED ON “TURNOUT

THEORY”

Informatization is an extension of corporate strategy,

the corresponding behaviour of corporate control is

achieved by it, so we expect system that

immobilized management processes and

management practice of many enterprises ensure

standardization of enterprise management, and it

make enterprise management reproduction

convenience at advance management idea and

management practice. However, immobilization

dose not means static, because enterprise have

changed , we need to change informatization system

as our business changes, so we can achieve business

continuity and adaptability of enterprise

management practice.

Like the rail system, we need train to run as the

fixed operation diagram in a period, rather than the

mind of somebody, especially the train drivers’.

Once there is change, we can change the train

operation diagram at any time, and we do not need

to re-lay or alter track system. All about this can be

accurately calculated and controlled through the

railway central dispatch system, and then switched

by the turnout system in each station. At last, It can

form a new rail road map by using the existed

physical networks, which not only ensures the safety

of the train, but also keeps the investment of railway

system effective in long-term. Construction industry,

in fact, is similar to it, we need solidified an flexible

construction industry products which can follow the

mode above. That is the author's “theory of turnout”

which about informatization.

Based on the theory we mentioned above, we are

be able to offer some kind of information production

which has the following features:

 Information Production based on the

Management Integration

Today's enterprise management system must meet

the needs of modern enterprise management

standard, so it needs to meet the demands on

controlling group and breaking the barriers between

departments. As the country’s railway operation

Figure 1: The railway.

Figure 2: The turnout.

chart, only can it ensure that the dispatch centre of

ministry of railway acknowledge and control that

from any one site to another site in the country when

the country’s railway operation diagram is unified.

The running enterprise information system also

needs to use information technology to make the

business plan, construction and production, quality

safety, materials and equipment, human resource

and technical files together, at the same time, relies

on the unified basic technology platform for building

it, which can guarantee the collection, storage and

analysis of the data overall and provide to the centre

manager to unified management rather than

independent.

 Information Production based on the

Business Process Configurable, and in

Line with the Principle of

Multi-organizational Distribution

The business process of the enterprise will change

with the changement of the enterprise management

system, the control point can be moved up and down

consistently, and the degree of sophistication and

control of enterprises will differ from each other.

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The following scenario is a typical example: one

stage of a sub-segment of the original inspection and

acceptance by the Group of unified management,

because of the importance of reducing the current

management of subordinate units or mature need for

decentralization of power, it will be normalized by

the branch management, which requires business

process management system in production

adjustments. User choose transportation mainly rely

on time , economy and feeling these three factors.

Dividing these three dimensions, we classify the

factors influencing User making travel choices. User

make travel choices will be influenced by some

objective, potential factors. Through analysing the

Users' characteristics and different factors' effects on

users, we got a flow chart of user travel.

For other companies, on the management of

materials, including a project can make an accurate

pre-construction material master control program

and the need for strict control plan in accordance

with the needs of the total applications and process

control limits picking, another project over the

duration emergency supplies cannot make the total

control program, but to ensure normal production,

you can always picking. This is derived from a

different company supplies two items control mode,

which requires companies with a production

management system configured to two projects to

support different business processes and business

rules to support the project after the allocation

process.

 Information Production based on the

Flexible of the Organisation

The real business of the organization of information

is no longer a choice between big and small, but the

flexibility to adapt to living environment, according

to market demand, at any time to adjust the scale of

business organization, making organizations more

flexible. Appropriate of the production systems

should be the same, and the need to dynamically

adjust the division of the organizational structure of

enterprises, and support staff, multi-character set the

scope of work.

For example, a group of three levels organization

under a bridge company, since the expansion of

corporate strategy or direction of tilt to the bridge,

has been promote to a group of two levels

organization under the directly control of the group,

and the supervisor of the company’s group vice

president concurrently. In the meantime, there is a

group under the Municipal Corporation are to co-

ordinate management, intensive management, the

Group established a new two municipal corporations,

unified all of the original two companies merged

under the jurisdiction of Municipal Corporation.

The table must appear inside the designated

margins or it may span the two columns.

 Information Production based on the

Principle of the Designable Approval

Process

Just like the business process, the approval process

of the enterprise is always justified, too. Especially

the approval process of the inter-organisation is also

justified with the demand of the enterprise strategy

and enterprise risk control. Therefore, the

information system of enterprise should have the

function of self-define the approval process, and

these functions will contribute to the independence

of the enterprise to define the approval process away

from the software company and support the

connection of the inter-organisation.

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integrate them into your document.

 Information Production based on all

Kinds of Models Which can be

Configured and in Line with the

Principle of Multi-organizational

Assignments

Most of the large-scale industries has many kinds of

way to operate, under some special circumstance

which some of the macro-indicators happen to be the

same, format of the management of similar

differences in micro-management content will

inevitably bring more business. This kind of

difference of management can not only set the

enterprises at the macro indicators set uniform

standards to ensure the realization of comprehensive

reports and decision support data harmonization, but

also to ensure that micro-management of scalable

data can change to meet the needs of each individual

line of business management needs. This requires a

higher level of enterprise management system can be

configured in the unified control of the template,

curing the appropriate management standards, and to

support the template as a master of the issued and

required by the various sub-units to individual

adjustment.

All of these demands we mentioned above is

about to ensure our system to be more flexible,

which can be more suitable during the big changes

in the modem enterprise management. In the

meantime, most of this kind of flexibility needs one

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powerful basic technique platform to support it

(which is also called “network of the train” of the

information system). There will be amount of

parameters in the basic technique platform to be

offered for the user and software to configure the

implementation of staff (which means information

systems that the various “turnout”), which

established the fixable and controllable information

system that meet the flexible need of the actual

construction business management (which means the

“railway operation chart” of the information system).

Equations should be placed on a separate line,

numbered and cantered. An extra line space should

be added above and bellow the equation.

4 CONCLUSIONS

The author, who has engaged in informatization of

engineering construction for several years, holds a

view that the overall development of informatization

construction in the domestic construction industry

remains a positive momentum. This development

trend fundamentally enhances the management level

of the whole industry and is bound to make an

enormous contribution to great-leap-forward

development of the future engineering construction

industry. During this process, the key issue on the

development of informatization products in the

future engineering construction industry lies in how

to convert our informatization system into a

convenient informatization tool and adapting into

the swift transformation of modern enterprise

management system. After all, as a word goes in

Management science：Changing is the only thing in

the world that remains unchangeable.

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