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How Digital Execution Management can Transform a Turnaround’s Performance

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Is your company using multiple spreadsheets or separate software tools to execute turnarounds? Is the thought of executing STOs ‘in such a short time’ overwhelming? If your answer to either of these questions is yes, you will not want to miss this webinar.

In the webinar, the following topics will be discussed:

• The common challenges to tracking the TA performance
• The role of digital work pack management and field change management in successful turnarounds
• How to measure the TA performance with real-time data
• The digital and mobile execution management approach with all stakeholders – TA management, controls, QAQC, contractors, and field supervision
• How to improve your TA execution management with Cleopatra Enterprise, the total turnaround and project management software
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Hexagon commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) organizations can realize by implementing EcoSys™. EcoSys is an Enterprise Project Performance (EPP) solution that supports the success of all projects within an organization by consolidating enterprise-wide project data, across the full lifecycle, into one management platform.  

Forrester interviewed four organizations with experience working with Hexagon’s EcoSys. From their discussions with decision-makers, Forrester was able to quantify some of the primary benefits of utilizing EPP software. These benefits were consolidated into 5 key findings:  

• EcoSys Reduces Project Cost Overruns 
• EcoSys Allows You to Pivot Capital Spending 
• EcoSys Improved Project Controller Productivity 
• EcoSys Enhanced Collaboration 
• Ecosys Allows you to Decommission Legacy Systems 

In this blog post, we’ll explore how EcoSys reduces project cost overruns. 

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In 2021, UPM Biofuels chose IAMTech's iPlanSTO software to help with the planning and execution of their Shutdowns, turnarounds and outage events - to digitize their Turnaround planning and execution business process.

UPM has been quick to implement iPlan, starting the live population of Work Packs, including capturing of scope with our mobile app, iPlanMobile, on smart devices in plant - in preparation for a plant shutdown this September. Associated maintenance work starts in October, and the company is looking forward to seeing the benefits of iPlan’s proven workflow.

Ross Coulman, CEO of IAMTech states.

“At IAMTech we have been working closely together, post go live, with UPM Biofuels to ensure they see the maximum return on their investment - we call this hypercare - it helps ensure as many users contribute to the gathering and processing of the turnaround. It is an honour to support their mission of creating a more efficient delivery of their products through digital innovation.”

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UPM Biofuels is a company at the forefront of biofuel development, producing renewable and sustainable products for the transport and petrochemical industries.

This industry survey provides insight into how project professionals and project management organizations are accounting for sustainability. The report dives into some of the key sustainability issues and developments across the project management industry. This year’s 2022 results highlighted some interesting insights around which project sustainability initiatives are being implemented most often, and how project professionals as well as their organizations perceive the importance of sustainability in project management.  This report covers:

• How do different industries & regions compare to others in terms of project sustainability?
• What methods are organizations are using to measure project sustainability efforts?
• Where to begin measuring sustainability metrics of a project if you aren't yet?
• A breakdown of global sustainability initiatives at the project level as well as at the corporate level across regions, industries, and respondents experience levels.

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Dissolving Activities and Retain Lag in Oracle Primavera P6 PPM

When an activity is deleted then a chain of logical activities is broken.

The Edit, Dissolve command and the right-click Dissolve command will delete an activity and joins the predecessors and successors with a Finish-to-Start relationship. 

P6 Version 19 introduced the ability to retain lag when dissolving activities and this paper which is a extract from my P6 book explains how the P6 Retained Lag function operates, click on this link>>>.

Accelerate your understanding of scheduling software to advance your scheduling career and be able to prepare better schedules with Eastwood Harris books, training courses and online videos on the following software packages:

• Microsoft Project,
• Oracle Primavera P6 and
• Elecosoft (Asta) Powerproject

Please follow these links:

• Eastwood Harris books and training materials are available here
• Online videos available through Udemy, click on this link and search for Paul E Harris, and
• Eastwood Harris inhouse, one-to-one and public training courses are offered through Primaskills Pty Ltd, more details here>>>>.

Paul E Harris

Director Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd

Often the project team or project manager needs to focus on particular activities that will occur during a specific period in the future and look-ahead schedules can be the perfect tool to elevate awareness of the near-term activities, upcoming in the project timeline.  Read more

Dealing with bloated, size-heavy XER schedules that take long times to load into your P6 database? Deleting the POBS data from the XER file can fix this problem, allowing you to save time and be more efficient in your work.  Read more

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