Background

In the twenty-first century, a lot of competition is faced by global business firms due to technological progress, requirements of customers, dynamic business industry and liberalisation of trade. The competitive forces are unleashed by the liberalised market and the scenario of business is continuously changing due to which competition is increasing day by day (Sokovic et al, 2010). With the rapid development of China's building materials industry, building decoration materials industry is also developing rapidly. Product is more and more pay attention to technology and energy-saving design. With the rapid development of people's living level and energy consumption, people attach importance to the use of energy and environment protection. The focus of this condition is on available scarce resources, customers, and leadership in the market, in their industry. Due to the dramatic change in the environment, the capability of organization for adapting, responding and aligning itself with needs of business is crucial for its long term development and survivals (Delen and Dalal, 2008). For staying progressed and productive, various advanced tools are used by most of the organizations for ensuring their competitiveness in the market. Nowadays, the managers of companies are taking rational decisions with innovative and creative strategies through which they can compete in corporate business world (Sage and Rouse, 2009).

Various methodologies and tools are used by different companies to implement a quality management for continuous improvement in quality. The label of the program can be different like TQM (Total Quality Management), Operational Excellence and Six Sigma. In order to effectively manage a project, most of the organizations now a day’s use Deming Cycle for ensuring high quality of the project. This technique is difficult to some extent and there is a need of proper planning for using this methodology for engineering project management. In engineering projects, there is a high demand of ensuring quality, because there is an involvement of different difficult and tough procedures. In order to ensure high quality of these kinds of projects, Deming Cycle is highly preferable by most of the organizations. This involves using techniques and methods that are highly advanced. It is very significant that selection of tools and techniques must be done through the proper team and must be applied in a proper way. In order to successfully implement approaches and techniques, there is a need to completely understand those techniques and to have proper knowledge regarding that method and its application in processes of organization (Zeng et al, 2015).

Deming proposed a cycle named as PDCA cycle in which there are different steps that must be followed while managing quality in an Engineering project. This is a tool that is used for ensuring continuous improvement in a project. A continuous approach of problem solving is described by PDCA cycle. This tool is highly used by most of the organizations in industry now. In PDCA cycle different steps are involved; Plan, Do, Check and Act. The cycle of PDCA is formed for using as a changed model and when one step is completely followed, and then it moves towards next step. Usually, different phases must be gone through in case of PDCA cycle, before accomplishment of desired outcomes (Wang et al, 2014). There is high applicability of PDCA cycle in engineering project management. This process is used by organization for improving the quality of project and there is a need of learning ways of implementing it successfully. There have been different researches done on analyzing the use of Deming cycle for quality management in organizations. This study will be done on a building exterior decoration enterprise China, which uses the Deming cycle to carry on the overall control to the project, pursues the enterprise profit, but this research will focus typically on analyzing the Engineering Project Management in application of Deming Cycle.

Research Aim

The aim of this research is to use a case to evaluate engineering project management in the application of Deming Cycle. Enterprises in the management of PDCA process management mode, to bring some changes in the project management. The use of the Deming cycle didn’t bring about the rising cost to the enterprise, but a lot of cost saving. At the same time, engineering enterprises should be prepared in a timely manner, achieve the comprehensive budget management. Hope that this research can provide inspiration to relevant enterprises in improving management.

Research Objectives

Following are research objectives that will be achieved through this research;

• To identify the importance of Deming Cycle for effective management of project.