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Issue with Role Limit in Resource Useage Profile

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I am having an issue with the Role "Limit" displaying correctly in my Resource Useage Profile. I have a Role, titled D7E, and we have (2) of these dozers in the company. So, I assigned 2 Units/ Day as the Max Units per Time for the D7E Role. However,...

May 12, 2016

How to transfer BOQ into acitivities

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Hello everyone, this is my first post here. I have been looking for an answer to this a long time but still haven't found a satisfactory one, so here goes:I have a Bill of quantities for a construction object that has around 100 items. Now some of th...

May 13, 2016

Editing Float

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Please someone help me..I have been creating a baseline for a high rise building project(Contract period is 2 years).I found that many activties have more than 200 days float and some activties have -1 (Minus one day) float. Although project completi...

May 16, 2016

Regular Maintenance vs. Turnaround Maintenance Cost

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Hi:I have been looking for some benchmark data or research to try and put numbers to costs associated with doing work during Turnaround (TAR) versus doing it as a normally scheduled maintenance task (OR OUTAGE) carried out by either in-house maintena...

May 17, 2016

Planning and SAP

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Hello Everyone,Just thought about checking what is the link of Planning and SAP. I have seen in many Job Profile requirement that the the person should know SAP also. Could anyone explain what is the link and for what SAP is used for. If it is useful...

May 17, 2016

Restriction on Activity

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Hi Experts,In My project, I need to assign Project Manager in particular activity then after baseline project move from P6 to EBS.but many times it happen that PM are not assigning themself to that activity.Is there any way that I can put restriction...

May 17, 2016

Resources randomly moving out of alignment with Activity Duration

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Large programme (30k+ activities all resourced)Upon "scheduling plan" resources are randomly moving within or outside the activity duration. It is not a constant, we have to correct between 80 and 3500 per week.Has anyone come across this phenomenon?...

May 18, 2016

Primavera P6 Simple way of highlighting clashes in a summary program.

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I have a schedule that is consolidating activites from a number of other programs so i can identify clashes without interlinking the  seprate plansI need to display/highlight these to the team and majority of the team have not used/ seen primavera,Th...

May 19, 2016

PSP exam

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Hi All,I'm going to PSP exam after 2 weeks, i would like to ask the people who already passed exams  if they can provide me with memo example to train my self on this important questions additionally, i would like to get your advices  to pass exam , ...

May 19, 2016

SAMPLE PROJECTS NEEDED FOR PRACTICE

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I am new to planning with primavera p6 and was wondering if there is a any where I can get sample projects to help me practice and improve my skills as well as understanding how to produce a full plan. Will be happy if any one can help please Alex

May 19, 2016

Tips for aspiring Project Manager?

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What tips can you give for a new Project Manager?I saw this article (http://apexgloballearning.com/blog/project-management-professors/) with some useful tips, but I want to hear your real-life tips and experiences especially on the issues you've enco...

May 20, 2016

Manpower loading

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hi,guys i have 30activities, which is finish to start.and i have only 2men to complete all 33 activities.how can i allocate just 2men.My total manpower after allocation should show me 2men. Thanks & Regards, Vigeeth

May 22, 2016

Scheduling factory facility as resources

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Hello all,I work in a precast production factory as a project planner. Using P6 for scheduling the production work in the factory. We have a limited number of beds, beam lines and moulds to cast the elements. I have to schedule multiple projects simu...

May 22, 2016

Change WBS

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Hi Planners,one of the tasks is already under certain WBS and I want to change it to another WBS, how to do it without moving the task with cursor?Best,Muataz

May 22, 2016

Monitoring Forecasted and Contract Completion Dates in Primavera P6

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It's possible in Primavera P6, to display both the forecasted ‘project completion date’ and ‘contract completion date’ in a way that provides warning when the estimated ‘project completion date’ slips. Here's how http://ow.ly/7mrW300tYLs

May 23, 2016