Hi All,

Engineering Deliverables movement and progress may be controlled using a software called 'WRENCH', which is being used in our projects.

To track and control Engineering Deliverables Progress, please may refer the following youtube link, which may be useful to you.

https://youtu.be/WqyAERbPO2E

The above youtube link has excel templates as well.

Best regards,

R. Jagadeesan

Hi

I seem to be a little late on this post but you might be interested to view a short recording on Deliverables Management module of Enterprise Engineer from McLaren (my company).  The module is being used in a number of LNG Capital Projects and is avaiable on EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet P8 and as a stand alone application.

If you like any more any more information please feel free to contact me:-

 

http://www.mclarensoftware.com/products/deliverables-management.aspx

Pablo,

Try this
http://tims_3/products.asp

Catalan,

Seems like a misunderstanding regarding post #18

Quote…”If the Consultants has 14 days to approve a submittal, but after 20 days had passed they didn’t replied yet with their comments, I want Remaining Duration to show -6 days after running GC. But it is showing as 0 (zero)”.

After your clarification now I see you got it right and your formulas will prevent the need to continuously look for Excel.

Also keep in mind that if the schedule is resource loaded and some activities are driven by resource constraints and your software is not capable of showing resource critical float then float as shown might not be available. Some submittal review activities might be already critical but not shown as such.

Best regards,
Rafael

Dear Pablo,

The updated summary until today for the Engineering Deliverables Management Software is:

1. PowerProject.
2. Contract Manager.
3. Inhouse developement (Excel or others)
4. ProLog
5. EMC documentum.
6. Intergraph AIM.

With kind regards,

Samer

Catalan,

If your RD is changed to 0 then seems to me you are updating with progress as planned or using an expected finish date constraint or the like, this I consider wrong over 99.99%, if it happens is by casualty or maybe by error. Maybe he will deliver in 0 days, yes is possible, but less than 0.01% probablilty.

Why not to ask the designer to provide you with the update data? It is common on the weekly meeting to discuss and update the Submittal Log along with the Pending Issues and RFI logs. If he does not supply you with the updating data you have no other option than to make some assumptions and include in the narrative of your schedule update your comments.

My approach would be to leave RD (remaining duration) equal to OD (original duration) unless the information is provided. If the designer does not provide me with the data, then he is reporting no progress with the implications in planning this might have. I would include in a text field some comment like “Past Due by Designer” and of course in the narrative would include my comments highlighting if the review activities are not critical, near critical, critical or if the review overrun is a relevant disruption to my planning.

Because not all submittal reviews shall be allocated the same time I would create my formulas as to compute how much the overrun is as follows:
To date Overrun = Target (Baseline) Original Duration – Actual Duration
Projected Overrun = To-date Overrun + Remaining Duration
... of course with minor adjustments as to negative values and as to when to apply the formula because to date and projected overrun must be 0 for unstarted activities. Can be done with the "IF" conditional statement.

About Deliverables Management Software we find them redundant as we use Excel to share the data among the many players, we have no need for these.

There are many ways to skin a cat, you can even use variance reports to filter out you dunning report. I still would use your hands down approach using formulas.

Best regards,
Rafael

Dear mimoune,

Our DC just log the in/out of submittals using Excel.

We use P6 to track Engineering progress.

Best regards,
R. Catalan

Dear R.Catalan,
The PM software shall show both remaining duration and current delays (variances) both in activity duration and in its planned dates. It is hard to believe that it is so complicated.
Best Regards,
Vladimir

Hi R.Catalan,
I did not understand what do you mean by negative figure in your post. Please clarify.
In our practice Design activities are usually included in the construction schedule and are managed the same way as construction works.
Best Regards,
Vladimir

greetings for all
What about expidition software isn’t suitable for the case of following all project Correspondence?

Pablo;

i suppose you are searching for document management system; in our company we use intergraph AIM, there is another well known product : EMC documentum.
and yes we update drawing forecast dates in P3 from AIM,

best regards