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Budget Estimate and Network Analysis of An Improved Smart Waste Bin Paper
Budget Estimate and Network Analysis of An Improved Smart Waste Bin Paper
BY
3. OPARANOZIE GOSPEL U.
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC
NEKEDE, OWERRI.
4. AHAOTU RAYMOND O.
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC
NEKEDE, OWERRI.
E-MAIL: tennymech@gmail.com
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ABSTRACT
The study, budget estimate and network analysis of an improved smart waste bin
using Microsoft project approach was successfully carried out. The large scale
budget estimate was achieved using small scale improved waste bin resources.
Results revealed that the actual budget estimate was found to be # 2,005,000.00
with project duration of 159days and actual work of 784 hours. In addition, the %
complete line was above the cumulative cost line and that indicated that the project
was not over budgeted. Work/task started on Sat 9/24/22 and finished on Mon
1/30/23 with % completion of 99% as study indicated. Also, the work burn down,
which shows 99% of completed work and 1% of remaining work existing among
the supervisor and stakeholder, was discovered to be a work of 4 hours
respectively. The study also showed that the welding Engineer and the supervisor
Engineer have the largest work availability among other work resources. It was
further discovered that the critical tasks were welding work and supervisory work
with the critical path being found to be 7, 8,9,10. The researchers made the
following recommendations: Project crashing could be adopted to reduce project
duration when cost is not a constraint, Two supervisory Engineers and two
welding Engineers could be employed to reduce workload and tasks duration etc.
Keywords ---- budget estimate, Microsoft project, actual work, resources, critical
tasks, cumulative cost line.
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INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study
UNEP (2005) stated that the management of waste has been considered to be the
responsibility of government, financed by general revenues. Currently,
moderations policies and pressures from multilateral financial institutions, and
partly as a result of pressures to limit taxes, governments have increasingly focused
on identifying specific revenue sources for waste management. This necessitated
need to control the production cost of waste management systems. Hence, the
paper aimed at studying budget estimate and network analysis of an improved
smart waste bin through Microsoft approach.
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Statement of Problem
The minimization of the production cost of a smart waste bin begins with effective
and efficient development of a schedule, proper assignment of resources to tasks,
tracking progress, evaluating critical tasks, managing and meeting budget timeline
and analyzing workloads for simplifications.
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partly as a result of pressures to limit taxes, governments have increasingly focused
on identifying specific revenue sources for waste management.
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Fig 1.0: a typical smart waste bin.
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Source: (Ogunwolu et al., 2020)
Implemented circuit of an improved smart waste bin
Methodology
The table below gives the various resources used for the implementation of an
improved smart waste bin. The resources would further be analyzed using
Microsoft project. The budget estimate for large scale smart waste bin was done
using a small scale smart waste bin resources as shown in the table below.
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Results And Presentations
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Table 1.1: Shows Task, Duration, Start, Finish, Predecessors, Resource Name
and Cost from Microsoft Project.
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Table 1.2: Shows Gantt chart of tasks and Actual work hours from Microsoft
Project.
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Table 1.3: Shows Resource Sheet from Microsoft Project.
Materi
Initial Grou Max. Ovt. Accrue Base
Resource Name Type al Std. Rate Cost/Use Code
s p Units Rate At Calendar
Label
₦
packs of Materi ₦ Prorate
P 20,000.0 E7018
electrodes al 10,000.00
0
d
Materi Prorate
<New Resource> < ₦ 0.00 ₦ 0.00
al d
Materi ₦ Prorate
1 SPDT al
1 ₦ 0.00
2,000.00 d
Materi ₦ Prorate
2 HC-SR04 al
2 ₦ 3,000.00
6,000.00 d
Materi ₦ Prorate
2 MQ135/4 al
2 ₦ 2,500.00
5,000.00 d
3 terminal Materi
3 ₦ 3,000.00
₦ Prorate
block al 9,000.00 d
Materi 1 by 1 ₦ Prorate HS
Angle iron al inch
A ₦ 1,000.00
1,000.00 d 72169
Arduino Materi
A ₦ 0.00
₦ Prorate
UNO al 8,000.00 d
Bolts and Materi
B ₦ 150.00 ₦ 300.00
Prorate
nuts al d
Materi ₦ Prorate
caster wheel al
c ₦ 1,000.00
4,000.00 d
Cover shaft Materi
C ₦ 1,000.00
₦ Prorate
support al 3,000.00 d
Cutting Materi
C ₦ 0.00
₦ Prorate NIC
stones al 6,000.00 d 2396
DC wire 3 Materi
D ₦ 0.00 ₦ 450.00
Prorate
yards al d
₦ ₦ ₦
Prorate Standar
Electrician Work E 0% 1,250.00/h 0.00/h 10,000.0
d d
r r 0
₦ ₦ ₦
Engineer 100 Prorate Standar
Work E 3,125.00/h 0.00/h 25,000.0
supervisor %
r r 0
d d
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battery 12v al 7,000.00 d
mild steel sheet Materi ₦ Prorate HSN720
8mm m ₦ 6,000.00
thicker al 6,000.00 d 7
₦
Materi 1.5m Prorate HSN720
mild steel sheet m ₦ 6,000.00 30,000.0
al m d 7
0
₦ ₦ ₦
Prorate Standar
Painter Work P 0% 1,250.00/h 0.00/h 10,000.0
d d
r r 0
₦ ₦ ₦
Prorate Standar
Programmer Work P 0% 1,875.00/h 0.00/h 15,000.0
d d
r r 0
Materi ₦ Prorate
Servo motor al
S ₦ 0.00
3,000.00 d
Materi Prorate
Sim card al
S ₦ 0.00 ₦ 500.00
d
₦
SIM900AV4. Materi Prorate
S ₦ 0.00 12,000.0
0 al
0
d
₦
100 Prorate Standar
Stakeholder Work S
%
₦ 0.00/hr 0.00/h ₦ 0.00
d d
r
₦ ₦ ₦
Welding Prorate Standar
Work W 0% 2,500.00/h 0.00/h 20,000.0
Engineer r r 0
d d
Chart Title
120% ₦ 4,500,000.00
₦ 4,000,000.00
100%
₦ 3,500,000.00
80% ₦ 3,000,000.00
Cumulative Cost
₦ 2,500,000.00
% Complete
60%
₦ 2,000,000.00
40% ₦ 1,500,000.00
₦ 1,000,000.00
20%
₦ 500,000.00
0% ₦ 0.00
22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 23 23
18/ /2/ 16/ 30/ 13/ 27/ 11/ 25/ /8/ 22/
9/ 10 10/ 10/ 11/ 11/ 12/ 12/ 1 1/
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Chart Title
₦ 2,500,000.00
₦ 2,000,000.00
₦ 1,500,000.00
₦ 1,000,000.00
₦ 500,000.00
₦ 0.00
N rt al ls n g g n g g g g ry g
BI epo rov ria ctio ttin ldin atio irin min ntin stin live osin
TE r p t e e cu e e r W m a i e e Cl
t Ap a sp d T D
A S ec f m In t an
W Op ra P
W roj o ng rog
T p g en i P
AR led in i sh
SM etai h as r em F in
rc su
D Pu ea
M
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Welding ₦ ₦ 0.00 ₦ 0.00 ₦ ₦
429,000.0 429,000.0 429,000.0
0 0 0
Finishing ₦ ₦ 0.00 ₦ 0.00 ₦ ₦
Operation 80,000.00 80,000.00 80,000.00
Wiring ₦ ₦ 0.00 ₦ 0.00 ₦ ₦
60,000.00 60,000.00 60,000.00
Programm ₦ ₦ 0.00 ₦ 0.00 ₦ ₦
ing 270,000.0 270,000.0 270,000.0
0 0 0
Painting ₦ ₦ 0.00 ₦ 0.00 ₦ ₦
40,000.00 40,000.00 40,000.00
Testing ₦ ₦ 0.00 ₦ 0.00 ₦ ₦
375,000.0 375,000.0 375,000.0
0 0 0
Delivery ₦ ₦ 0.00 ₦ 0.00 ₦ ₦
50,000.00 50,000.00 50,000.00
Closing ₦ 0.00 ₦ 0.00 ₦ 0.00 ₦ 0.00 ₦ 0.00
100%100%100%100% 100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%
100%
90%
80% 75%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
200 hrs
100 hrs
0 hrs
N rt al ls n g g n g g g g ry g
B I epo rov ria ctio ttin ldin atio irin min ntin stin live osin
TE e u
t r pp at pe c We per W ram Pa Te De Cl
i
AS jec A f m Ins and O g
W o o t g o
T pr g en in Pr
AR i l e d s in m ni sh
SM eta ha re Fi
D u rc a su
P e
M
300 hrs
250 hrs
200 hrs
150 hrs
100 hrs
Work (hrs)
50 hrs
0 hrs
N rt al ls n g g n g g g g ry g
B I epo rov ria ctio ttin ldin atio irin min ntin stin live osin
TE t r pp ate pe cu We per W am Pai Te De Cl
AS jec A f m Ins and O gr
W ro o t ng ro
T p g n i P
AR l e d s in m
e i sh
SM etai ha re F in
rc s u
D Pu ea
M
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Stakeholder
Engineer supervisor
Painter
Programmer
Electrician
Welding Engineer
0 hrs 50 hrs 100 hrs 150 hrs 200 hrs 250 hrs 300 hrs
Work burn down shows how much work you have completed and how much you
have left. If the remaining cumulative work line is steeper, then the project may be
late.
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102%
100%
98%
96%
94%
92%
90%
88%
Welding Electrician Programmer Painter Engineer Stakeholder
Engineer supervisor
% Work Complete
90 hrs
80 hrs
70 hrs Remaining Availability
(Welding Engineer )
60 hrs Remaining Availability
50 hrs (Electrician )
Remaining Availability
40 hrs (Programmer )
30 hrs Remaining Availability
(Painter )
20 hrs Remaining Availability
(Engineer supervisor )
10 hrs
Remaining Availability
0 hrs (Stakeholder )
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3
/ 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 /2 /2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
/ 18 0/2 /16 /30 /13 /27 /11 /25 1/8 /22
9 1 10 10 11 11 12 12 1
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Status: Complete Status: Future Task
Discussion
The results of the study, budget estimate and network analysis of an improved
smart waste bin were discussed here. The large scale budget estimate was achieved
using small scale improved waste bin resources. According to table 1.1 and table
1.2, the actual budget estimate was found to be # 2,005,000.00 with project
duration of 159days and actual work of 784 hours. Furthermore, Fig 1.0 shows that
the % complete line was above the cumulative cost line and that indicated that the
project was not over budgeted. Work/task started on Sat 9/24/22 and finished on
Mon 1/30/23 with % completion of 99% as shown in fig. 1.2. Fig. 1.5 indicated
the work burn down, which shows 99% of completed work and 1% of remaining
work among the Engineer supervisor and stakeholder with the remaining work of 4
hours each according to table 1.4. The study also showed that the welding
Engineer and the supervisor Engineer have the largest work availability among
other work resources, as shown in fig. 1.7.
Table 1.2 and fig. 1.8 indicated that the critical tasks were welding work and
supervisory work with the critical path being found to be 7, 8,9,10.
Conclusion
The budget estimate and network analysis of an improved smart waste bin through
Microsoft project was correctly achieved. Obviously, the budget estimate and
network analysis for large scale improved smart waste bin was done using
resources of a small scale smart waste bin. However, reduction in project cost and
project duration could be achieved through effective project cost control measures
and project crashing respectively. The results of the study was in line with Samann
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(2017) who estimated the budget of a small scale improved smart waste bin to be #
127,680.00 or 168$.
Recommendations
The following recommendations are suggested based on the study:
1) Project crashing can be adopted to reduce project duration when cost is not
constraint.
2) We recommended that two supervisory Engineers and two welding
Engineers can be employed to reduce workload and tasks duration.
3) This research can also be done using other advanced software for
generalization.
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REFERENCES
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United Nations Environmental Pogramme. (2005). Solid Waste
Management. ISBN: 92-807-2676-5.
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