Essam Al-Rahali
MSc Engineering (UTS)
Doctorial Candidate, Faculty of Engineering
Essam is a PhD student in the Engineering Department at the University of Technology, Sydney. His research interests are Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) and Engineering for Sustainability. He started his Master's candidature at UTS and graduated with a MEng in ITC. He is also involved with teaching at a technical college in Makkah and is a Managing Director at Makkah's Technical and Vocational Training Corporation.
Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) and Engineering for Sustainability:
BPR encourages developing a knowledge-base that assists in a realistic vision for the future, new design, and new business processes so that appropriate plans of action can be undertaken using those new techniques and technologies. This process of redesign or re-engineering aids in re-thinking work practices from the ground-up, eliminating unnecessary work activities and finding effective ways of doing work so that organisations can become more function-oriented rather than structure-based.
Alhendrh'a is an Arabic term which has a wide meaning in re-engineering and generally means 'Business Process Re-engineering'. The term has emerged since the early 1990s and has evolved into the need to re-examine and (if necessary) significantly alter activities, actions and strategies in business organizations and industrial engineering. The central aim is to become outcome-focused, service-oriented and sustainable through adopting engineering and information techniques. An equivalent term in English could be 'Business Process Re-engineering' (BPR).
The application of 'Business Process Re-engineering', or Alhendrh'a, in the Arabia Gulf countries and in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is still in the preliminary stages. This project examines the possibilities and potentials of the substantial application of the concept of Alhendrh'a in the Kingdom Saudi Arabia and proposes recommendations for significant improvement in the management of re-engineering and renewable technology in the manufacturing recycling sectors.