Minutes of meeting (02/04/2010)

Members attended to discuss the current situation with selecting appropriate beams for the glide rail and will be posting up research for the selected beam, including costing and material.

The legs will have further refined calculations which will be posted at a later date and allow final costing calculations to be made.

The following members attended, those not present had given reasons for not being able to attend at an earlier date and will be informed of any required work:
Sandra Donohoe - Project Manager
Jarrett Doherty - Materials Specialist
Abdi Elmi - Finance Officer

Minutes of meeting 9 (25/03/2010)

All team members attended to discuss the situation for the following week.

Stress analysis is almost complete and based on the given values from the stress analyst, both the materials specialist and finance officer can begin selecting the most appropriate choices for the crane.

A meeting will be held on monday to put together the gathered data.

The following members have informed the group they will not be able to attend the meeting in person, but have provided alternative means of contact to recieve tasks and information of any made decisions:

Mark Hawkins - Chief Designer
Jason Harries - Stress Analyst

Minutes of meeting 8 (23/03/2010)

Finalisation of the design idea and a group meeting to discuss the current state and carry on with the calculations of the stress analysis for the crane.
The latter was briefed and directed by the stress analyst for the general completion of this section.
Reviewes could be required at a later date to finalise all calculations in order to choose the materials and begin costing.

The following members attended:
Sandra Donohoe - Project Manager
Mark Hawkins - Chief Designer
Jason Harries - Stress Analyst

Meeting 7 (22/03/2010)

All members were present for this meeting

In this meeting we discussed the current market prices and strengths/weaknesses of materials, and whether or not they should be used in the design. The stess analysist completed his analysis and handed the revised dimensions to the chief designer.

For the next meeting the designer will have completed the final CAD drawings and all materials will be priced.

We are on target to complete this project to date.

Minutes of meeting 6 (19/03/10)

The entire group attended and discussed the current situation and the next course of action in order to maintain on course as given by the gantt chart.
The stress analysis will be reviewed on Monday, including materials and cost research.
Further research required from all team members and any outstanding research material will need to be posted.

Minutes of meeting 5 (17th March 2010)

The following group members attended:

Sandra Donohoe - Project Manager
Mark Hawkins - Chief Designer
Jason Harries - Stress Analyst
Abdi Elmi - Finance Officer

Calculations where discussed and some required changes to the design would be required (e.g. main glide rail would possibly need to take an I beam shape in order to support the stresses imposed and further research on finance and materials)

Minutes of meeting 4 (15th March 2010)

The following group members came to the meeting on the given day to discuss the design status and allocate tasks for the next stage of the project, the stress analysis:

Sandra Donohoe - Project Manager
Mark Hawkins - Chief Designer
Jason Harries - Stress Analyst
Abdi Elmi - Finance Officer

Meeting 3 (10/03/2010)

Once more the following group members are consistently present at these group meetings:
Sandra Donohoe - Project Manager
Mark Hawkins - Chief Designer
Jason Harries - Stress Analyst
Abdi Elmi - Finance Officer
The design status was assessed as a result of the new information and an initial sketch was made:


Further research and analysis will be carried out to evaluate its potential

Meeting 2 (08/03/2010)

The register was taken and the same people from Meeting 1 were present.

Firstly discussed researched ideas that each group member looked at over the weekend.

Some ideas had some obvious flaws which may need to be remedied.

The group debated on the interpretation of the design brief and will take this up with Mr Thomson.

Meeting 1 (05/03/2010)

Meeting was had on recorded date and what was discussed was:
- Contact details between group members
- Setting up of blog
- Job allocations
- Minutes

The contact details were distributed between the members that attended, Jarrett Doherty was not present. As you can see the blog has been created so all of the members can access and contribute to it.

The Jobs were allocated as listed:

Sandra Donohoe - Project Manager
Mark Hawkins - Chief Designer
Jason Harries - Stress Analyst
Abdirahman Elmi - Finance Officer

The materials specialist has not been allocated due to the fact that Jarrett Doherty was not here, so therefore the job will be split between the current four unless a new member arises.

Chief Designer presented 5 sketches with initial ideas.

Project Manager has created a timetable so a record of meetings can be kept.

For the next meeting each member needs to research the current market.