PROGRESS REPORT : MEANING AND SAMPLE

                 

                  PROGRESS REPORT : MEANING  AND SAMPLE

What is a progress report?

A progress report is a type of business writing designed to update someone on various tasks of someone else. It's written for managers, project stakeholders, leadership, or company-wide updates. It doesn't merely show progress or successes but also drawbacks, obstacles, and recommendations for improvement.

Reporting project progress is a formal, documented, and structured way of keeping people in the know. There are many types of progress reports out there, email wrap ups, memos, PDFs, business letters, project summaries, Google docs, and the list goes on.

                                    SAMPLE PROGRESS REPORT 

PROGRESS REPORT “Stratigraphic Architecture of Deep-Ramp Carbonates: Implications for Deposition of Volcanic Ashes, Salona and Coburn Formations, Central Pennsylvania”

-         by John Lerner 

   

 SCOPE AND PURPOSE

The Late Middle Ordovician-age Salona and Coburn formations of central Pennsylvania show cyclic patterns on a scale of tens of meters. Little research has been done on sequence stratigraphy of deep-water mixed carbonate/siliciclastic systems, and a depositional model for this environment is necessary to understand the timing and processes of deposition. The stratigraphic position of the bentonites at the base of the larger cycles is significant because it indicates that they accumulated during a time of non-deposition in a deep water environment.

PROGRESS

 To date, I have described five lithofacies present in the Salona and Coburn formations. Two lithofacies are interpreted as storm deposits and make up the limestone component of the thinly-bedded couplets. Some trends were observed in the raw data; however, because of the “noisy” nature of the data, a plot of the five-point moving average of bed thickness was created to define the cycles better.

ADDITIONAL WORK

Two key tasks are to be completed in the coming weeks. With the results of these tests and the field observations, I will create a model for deposition of a deep-ramp mixed carbonate/siliciclastic system in a foreland basin environment. The model will include depositional processes, stratigraphic architecture, and tectonic setting.

REMAINING QUESTIONS

Questions remain regarding the depositional processes responsible for the featureless micrite at the base of the Salona Formation. How rapid was the transition? What record (if any?) remains of the transition? Were bentonites not deposited, or were they selectively removed at certain locations by erosive storm processes?

EXPECTED RESULTS

I expect to find that the large-scale cycles represent parasequences. Flooding surfaces are marked by bentonites and shales, with bentonites removed in some locations. If the cycles are true parasequences, the implication is that eustatic sea level changes and not tectonic influences controlled the depositional changes over the interval.

Que 2. The production target for the first six months in automobile industry has declined by 25% as compared to last year. As the Production Manager draft a report to the higher authorities stating the reasons and solutions for the fall in production.

16 September,2024 

From The Production Manager 

Raj Automobiles Ltd. 

MIDC Industrial Area Chakan, 

Pune -400 086 

To 

The General Manager 

Raj Automobiles Ltd. MIDC Industrial Area 

Chakan, Pune -400 086

Subject: Report about the fall in production 

 Respected Sir, 

 I regret to inform you that the production target for the first six months in 2015 has declined by 25% as compared to last year. 

Causes/Reasons of the decline:

 • There was frequent power failure due to which the work could not proceed at the desired speed. 

• The generators could not be operated every time. 

• Spare parts were not provided in time. 

• Quality control department did not check the machines in time. 

• Workers were not ready to work in more than one shift. 

• Due to low morale most of the workers were on casual leave. 

Suggestions to improve the production level: 

• Purchase department should take extra efforts to provide spare parts in time.

 • Quality control department should be prompt in checking the machines and approve the same. 

• We must have good quality generators/invertors for back up. 

• Workers can be motivated with extra incentives.

 • To boost up the morale of the workers management should come up with appreciation system. 

If we follow the above mentioned suggestions, we can improve the level of production in our company. This is for your information and necessary action. 

Thanking You 

                                                                                                              Yours sincerely, 

                                                                                                 Sd/- The Production Manager