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Driving activity

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Dear All,I have already assigned a baseline and have been updating site progress every week.Although I found that project delay doesn't change when I do updation.I checked the driving activities in longest path, then I found that one very important a...

May 4, 2016

Resource Assignment

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Hi guys, I have an doubt regarding resource assignment.the problem is,  i have to assign 2 manpower for 3activities.this 2guys will only do that 3 activities.how shall i assign to satisfy this condition.can anyone explain step wise Plz help.

May 4, 2016

Level of detail schedule for large mining project

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Hi guys,I am working on a large mining project in RSA with the end date towards the end of 2022. The project is not that complex and is driven by mining as these projects typically are. The problem lies in that the master schedule carries 7500 activi...

May 4, 2016

Resource Assignment Original Duration

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Hi,I applied a filter on the Activities pane then went on the Resource Assignment pane, applied the same filter and came up with the same start and finish dates on the summary, but different Original Duration.My question is, what are the possible rea...

May 4, 2016

Logical Sequence

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Dear Sir,          Can anyone give the Logical sequence of Activities for all engineering delieverbales in a Detail Design Engineering in Oil and Gas industry. Regards,Mohammed

May 5, 2016

urgent : Resources in P6

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Hi all Why I can't make ( move up, move down , move left and move right ) for the resources ?? 

May 6, 2016

Negative Schedule Variance with positive cost variance

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Hi,I understand that having a negative schedule variance with a positive cost variance is a rare case scenario. Could you please cite me a practical situation where this could be possible ? Thanks.

May 6, 2016

Renumbering Activity IDs in Primavera P6 Professional

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When it comes to inserting tasks or activities into Microsoft Project, it automatically renumbers all tasks. However, the easiest way to do this in Primavera P6, is to use it's renumbering feature which allows you to update activity IDs and generate ...

May 6, 2016

SPI/CPI and Project Change

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HiI understand how to calculate CPI and SPI and use them in communicating project status. However, can anyone tell me what would happen to these indicators if a project change was raised to alter the scope of delivery, which in turn impacted the time...

May 6, 2016

Resource dependent activities

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Hi members, I am working on my first Turnaround schedule on P6 8.2. 24x7, 2 shifts schedule. I have to assign 50% of my resources in the night shift and 100% in the day shift. I tried to use Task dependent activities and creating Shifts under 'Resour...

May 7, 2016

Combining works together

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There are two planning engineers in my company.We both have to create a baseline together for a building project.Now,I'm adding relationship of that project while he is assigning resources and costs for each activities.Are there any methods to combin...

May 8, 2016

Using Reflections in Primavera P6 Professional

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Reflections are a great way to examine schedule scope changes without permanently affecting your source schedule file. Here's how to use Reflections in Primavera P6 Professional http://ow.ly/WJXI3002sy9

May 9, 2016

Hvac

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Fellow Planers, I have been tasked (no pun intended) with generating a departmental/company Project Planning and Production Procedure for the Hvac Engineering and Manufacturing Company I work for. I was wondering if any of you would have any pointer ...

May 9, 2016

Only EPS is visible

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Hi,(Somebody please help)I am using P6 R8.4 webSince last two days I am upset that I am not able to see my projects. Even I am not able to create new projects.Please check the snap shot.When I asked the IT help desk they told its admin problem. and w...

May 10, 2016

start, finish and total float float

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Greetings to All.(it might be a stupid question)In P6 project layout we use start, finish and total float columns. we have original duration too. My question is on what basis total float is calculated. because total float = late start- Early start or...

May 10, 2016

Milestones progress measurement in Primavera

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Dear All,I am working on a project where we have a lump-sum contract. for the payment sake, the milestones are defined which are called Payment Milestones (PMS) each with its fixed values.Each of the milestone contains several activities ranging from...

May 10, 2016

How can we account for cash inflow in Primavera P6

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Hi Guys,   I have done cost outflow in P6 and I have the outflow distributed as per the schedule. I would like to know whether there is a techninique to show cash in-flow in P6. I would like to create a cash flow statement. Please , share with me you...

May 11, 2016

Can we account for cash inflow in Primavera ?

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Hi Guys,   I have done cost outflow in P6 and I have the outflow distributed as per the schedule. I would like to know whether there is a techninique to show cash in-flow in P6. I would like to create a cash flow statement. Please , share with me you...

May 11, 2016

asta power project

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Good morning All,I am trying to establish a KPI graph based on weekly activity count of the programme to display the progress of the project.All I can do is resource the project and and create a histogram based on all resources and export the data to...

May 11, 2016

Unable to configure P6 EPPM database with P6 Client.

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Hi,   Can you please explain how to configure P6 EPPM database schema with P6 client as im not able to configure same db instance in P6 client.Its saying you cant configure EEPM database in P6 Professional.

May 11, 2016