From people oriented project management that has been in existence ever since its inception in early 1960’s, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is switching over to a system oriented project management for all its ongoing and future projects.

The first ever Indian Project Life Cycle Management System (PLM) developed by Wrench Solutions, a Kochi based company, has been selected by ISRO for the system oriented project management.

PLM is used by companies and institutions across the world for optimum utilisation of their design engineering departments. The system helps storage of vital data in a secure way and ensures sharing of the same among pre-assigned departments and officials.

The decision to use the PLM for launch vehicle programmes (PSLV, GSLV and HSP) as well as India’s first ever Human Space Flight programme was taken after ISRO tested the design engineering based system for more than eight years.

“ISRO has also decided to use Wrench on past projects as a knowledge management tool to preserve and reuse data effectively,” Mr K Varghese Daniel, director of Wrench Solutions, told Deccan Chronicle.

On the Human Space Flight Mission programme WRENCH will be deployed over multiple locations and will allow (for the first time) all the various ISRO offices/locations to work concurrently in real-time, he added. ISRO’s partnership with Wrench began in 2002 with the GSLV-Mark3.

The first Wrench implementation was declared live by then chairman, Dr. Madhavan Nair, and since then PLM has been deployed on several GSLV Mark3 subsystems including the S200, C25 etc, and in other major ISRO division.