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Digitalization of Last Planner

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Dear Members, I have been working as a planner at Skanska Hungary Ltd for more than two years.In August las year we started to implement the Lean Construction Management (the Last Planner too). Now we started within a new project the TVD and ADM, how...

Jul 10, 2019

Tracking revision changes in BIM model

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Hello everyone!Does anybody knows whether that's possible to track changes in revisions of IFC files integrated to the schedule? For example, I'm getting new revision of 3D model and i want to find out whether any element were added or deleted. Is th...

Jul 10, 2019

The DIPP: Anyone have any idea why it is suddenly getting attention?

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The DIPP, or Devaux's Index of Project Performance, was first published in a 1992 article ("When the DIPP Dips: A P&L Index for Project Performance") in Project Management Journal. It was then re-published in 1999 in a PMI book Essentials of Project ...

Jul 10, 2019

Weather

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During execution we have "problem" with bad weather condition.How we put this "nonworking" period in time schedule ?How we link with other activity ?

Jul 12, 2019

Integrating Primavera P6 and IBM RTC

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Hi ,im looking for a way pulling info to and from RTC to support shceduling of test activities in the P6,Has anybody done this before?prerfered route?any issues?CheersLuke

Jul 12, 2019

schedule comparison - can´t read projects on the SQLite db

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Hi,I am not able to see any project on a SQLite db with the Primavera Visualizer. Suggestions?- No problems with projects on the remote MS-SQL Server shared db. - No error message, just no project is shown. - I have full admin rights on the machine. ...

Jul 15, 2019

Resource Allocation % Histogram

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Hi, Is there a way of getting a Resource Usage Profile Histogram to show what % of a resource has been allocated?My scenario is each PM can run 4 projects max, we have an LOE in each project with the PM allocated @ 25% so we want to be able to see if...

Jul 16, 2019

not possible to get a clear definition of client needs?

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Hello guys, can anyone anser this question please? Thank a lot Traditional project management (TPM) depends heavily on being able to clearly define what the client needs. You cannot create a detailed project plan without that information. Within the ...

Jul 16, 2019

Opinions regarding the display of long lead items on a programme

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Is it better practice to summarise long lead items in one summary bar at the top or bottom of the chart, separated from the construction activities or amongst the construction activities?In my experience, putting the lead ins as line items immediatel...

Jul 17, 2019

Problem with importing resources in P6

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Good day! I have a small query...please help me to resolve it if you canWhen I’m importing a project in P6, resources(budgeted labour units) are not showing the same value as per the imported project.Awaiting your replies Thanks in advance  Prince Ra...

Jul 17, 2019

Resource Loading

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Dear All,Hope you are doing great! I have few queries related to resource loading:1. Let's say there is an activity (duration 1 day) which required 10 welders and 5 helpers. So how to assign resources to the activites. Do I have to define 10 welders ...

Jul 18, 2019

Exporting Problem from Primavera to Excel

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Dear All,To day I have tried to export a P6 file to Excel format but unlucky it appeared to be failed, the dialog box said that: "Cannot export while sub-unit for duration/time are enable". I have tried in several ways to solve it but still failed. A...

Jul 19, 2019

Exporting Problem from Primavera to Excel

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Dear All,To day I have tried to export a P6 file to Excel format but unlucky it appeared to be failed, the dialog box said that: "Cannot export while sub-unit for duration/time are enable". I have tried in several ways to solve it but still failed. A...

Jul 19, 2019

Change of Direction

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Last month I celebrated my 75th birthday.No I am not retiring but I am contemplating a change of direction.In future I will not be completing the entire commission myself but will act as strategist and guide and let others do the work under my contro...

Jul 19, 2019

So why does Oracle Primavera still not compute Critical Path Drag?

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I believe it's now 10 years since Spider Project started computing critical path drag in CPM schedules and 5 years since it introduced the computation functionality on its resource critical path schedules.It's also approaching 3 years since Asta Powe...

Jul 20, 2019

Critical bars Display before Baseline

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Hi Everybody,Please clarify thisWhy my some actvities are showing Red in Gantt Chart even i didn't make the baseline and not entered the project must by Finish Date. Thanks

Jul 21, 2019

P6 Interview Test

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I found this quite interesting. Apparently, it's a real interview test for hiring P6 schedulers. Not that this is a bad thing and you can call me old school, but I guess we no longer trust our verbal interviewing skills?  ow.ly/kVjE50v7OSI

Jul 22, 2019

Primavera Layout - Information fetch

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Hello Folks,Scenario - There are many UDFs used in different Layout. (Total Layout-2000+)User has discountinue 2 UDF and now they want to know in which layout this UDF is getting used. Is there any way to find out from backend because checking one by...

Jul 24, 2019

Earned Schedule with P6

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House,I'll like to know if anyone using the P6 has applied the principles of Earned Schedule especciall Spi(t). I will appreciate if I could be guide through please. Thanks

Jul 24, 2019