20.500.12556/DKUM-97041 Hybrid forecasting modelling of cost and time entities for planning and optimizing projects in the die-cast aluminium industry The techniques employed to manage an industrial project are based on tools that aim to achieve the objectives set by an organization. Most of these techniques consider the development of operative and predictive models. The difficulty in developing project planning models relies on estimating large sets of parameters and the need to include model sections of poorly identifiable, that increase costs and time. This work develops a hybrid forecasting model for all the phases that make up die-casting projects through a series of parameters and sub-models that contemplate the particularities of each case, thereby achieving greater precision in the forecast. The model identifies the cost and time factors that affect project planning, specifically in the die-casting industry, and intends to predict their future behaviour when certain initially given conditions are modified. To estimate the parameters of the hybrid model, several factors in the processes were considered that interact in this industry, such as primary matter costs and activities associated to the process. The considered processes that have a substantial economic impact on the implementation of the project were selected. The criteria for this selection considered identifying the relevant parts of the design and manufacturing in the die-casting industry. Process factors such as the Cost of aluminium and its related activities, whose processes will be grouped into cost and time entities to build a set of metrics that allow better control over them. Finally, the proposed model is based on analytical, parametric, and analog methods that achieve accuracy greater than 85 % in predicting the time and Cost of the process. hybrid models entity modelling project planning forecating models aluminium die-casting cost factors time factors optimization hibridni modeli projektno planiranje optimizacija true false true Chair of Production Engineering (CPE), University of Maribor Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik https://apem-journal.org/ Content form this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Članek v reviji 2026-02-13 08:42:32 2026-02-13 08:42:33 2026-02-14 03:11:45 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 str. 163-174 no. 2 Vol. 18 Jun. 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2023-05-05 2023-06-19 2023-07-23 621 268255747 10.14743/apem2023.2.464 1854-6250 APEM18-2_163-174.pdf APEM18-2_163-174.pdf 1 4DD374607AE2063FDFAA125689302831 b69cb5f8439439f36ef7e3914cfede7d2420e91679460662a2d3b025dacbb06a 6dd103af-08b0-11f1-8973-00155d00019a https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=203294 https://apem-journal.org/Archives/2023/Abstract-APEM18-2_163-174.html 0 7428e301-08b0-11f1-8973-00155d00019a https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=203295 Fakulteta za strojništvo Advances in production engineering & management 0 0 0