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Hey folks its me with so many questions
Another major issue here please
I am currently working on a schedule with multidiscipline team of resources about to be allocated to tasks in crews. Currently the schedule has about 14 crews of various similar discipline all working together.
However, on the same schedule I have some tasks that has mix of people from each of these crews, for better illustration :
Task A work to be executed by Welding Team comprising 2 welders, 3 electricians and 1 mechanical technician all on 24hr shift
Task B – Installation Crewe - 2 Electrician, 1 Plumber and 3 Control engineer each on 12hrs shift
Task C - 2 Electrician from installation and 1 welder from welding team
Project Manager wants each resource person to be allocated to task individually in order to have an estimated budgeted labour units for each for the whole project
My concern - this a schedule of 1000 task and about 80 resources if allocated individually hence if I allocate manually the whole process could become cumbersome and tedious
Does anyone in the house has any idea of any fast rule to achieve same results with P6…. Am most grateful for any help I could get at this stage
Cheers
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Hi Vivtor
Why should you make life difficult. A welder is a welder and an electrician is an electrician. Do not bother to allocate each person to a specific activity. This may be the a exception for specialized trade. Make resources groups in the Enterprise tab of P6 and allocate the number of resources, Say 20 welder, 25 electricians . This allows you to level resources as resource group for welders ,electricians etc. Recourse leveling on the names Achmed, John or Claus is useless.
Human Resources and time keeping systems are better for tracking man hours.
Johannes
Hi Victor,
I am facing a similar problem, my schedule is about 9000 lines and i have about 500 resources. What i have done is I have devided my schedule into 6 sections, The hard work is on section 1 where i have to manually allocate all of these resources however from section 2 to section 6 i have just copied and pasted as it is a repitation. This means that the resources i used on section 1 will be exactly the same for section 2 to section 6, which makes sense. The problem with this is Resource levelling, that is the nightmare i am now facing.
Hope it helps
Hlami Baloyi
Email: PPadmin@planningplanet.com
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