Special Metals Corporation. Special Metals Corporation, headquartered in New Hartford, New York, U.S.A., with operations in Huntington, West Virginia; Dunkirk, New York; Burnaugh, Kentucky; Elkhart, Indiana and Hereford, England, is a supplier of refractory alloys. Trademarks include Inconel, Incoloy, Monel, Nimonic, and Udimet.
A project charter is a critical document that provides written authorization for a task to either start or continue to move forward. It is sometimes known as a project authorization or project initiation form. Project charters are created and signed by high-level members of an external government agency, organization or sponsor that is funding the project, not a member of the project team.
If the project charter is changed, the changes have to be approved the sponsor. A project charter is owned by upper management and/or the project sponsor. The charter gives the project manager and his or her team the high-level scope, schedule, and resource window from which to operate. If events change those overall parameters, the sponsors must be contacted and approve the actions. It is important not to confuse the project charter and the project management plan.