Collaborative Planning
Forum TopicHi,I am looking to improve my skills as a collaborative planning facilatator.Can anyone recommend any literature / training / advice to help me with this? Kind regards,Andrew
Oct 23, 2018
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P6 R83 Installation
Forum TopicHi guys, I am having difficulties installing P6 on my machine.I seem to be doing everything as per the instructions from the internet and have enough computing space on my laptop.After running everything I get an error saying ''P6 Install was interru...
Oct 23, 2018
Levelling and original duration changes
Forum TopicI am doing levelling, in P6. whenever I am delaying any activity in "Resource usage spreadsheet" by shifting the particular overallocated resource to next possible day my original duration for activity changes drastically. This duration is logically ...
Oct 25, 2018
Productivity rates of manpower
Forum TopicHello Everybody,I am new here in this platform and i need to ask some questions and i would appreciate if you answer my questions. I have choosen my career as a planning engineer in building side. I have done BSc Civil Engineering and then Masters in...
Oct 25, 2018
Which industries do planning professionals work in? (other than construction)
Forum TopicI'm interested in a career in planning, but am also wondering if they can work in many industries? I know they work in construction and oil and gas. But what other industries? I'm interested in manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, renewables and oth...
Oct 25, 2018
As-built Time-Chainage Chart
Forum TopicDear all,I need urgent help to draft a chart demonstrating type of work (with diferrent color) over the chainage of the road (x axis), and time (y axis). Basis data is construction log that contains in columns those information: Date, from chainage, ...
Oct 25, 2018
Turnaround schedule levels
Forum TopicIn various literature I see two different kind of schedule levels. Level 0-4 or Level 1-5.Which definition is commonly used ?What would be the appropriate levels for a turnaround schedule and could someone give me some specific examples for a turnaro...
Oct 26, 2018
Primavera P6 R16.2 EAccessViolation SQLServer
Forum TopicHelloI´m installed Primavera P6 16.2 with SQLServer 2012. When I try to open the BD in SQLite its works ok, but when I try to open the BD created througth the intaller dbsetup.bat, I received the error Exception EAccessviolation in module PM.exe.Plea...
Oct 26, 2018
High Rise Building construction activities
Forum TopicHello Everyone,I need Primavera P6 Xer files of complete buidling construction project activities, including all relationships and resources loaded.Please send me the whole project which includes all activities from start to end ,even if somebody has...
Oct 29, 2018
BAK Files
Forum TopicEverytime I save asta PP programme copy of BAK file created on the same folder. How do I stop this? Any help appreciated
Oct 29, 2018
Adding a weighted % Complete
Forum TopicIs it possible to create a weighted % complete column in MSP?I have to put a weighted % against different disciplines within the schedule however I'm not really sure where to start. So I have for example:Engineering 10%Procurement 10%Structural 25% A...
Oct 29, 2018
Project planning requirements
Forum TopicDear All,Please tell me about the requirements of doing planning of a construction projects. I mean if we have to do planning of a construction project (lets say Hospital project) what documents or input we need at this stage to start planning from s...
Oct 31, 2018
TIME RISK ALLOWANCE
Forum TopicHi I am newbie to planning. There is a column added for TIME RISK ALLOWANCE in my NEC program. What is TRA? How do I add this column ? Any help appreciated
Oct 31, 2018
Should activity durations always be in whole days? (P6)
Forum TopicHelloI am just starting out in planning and I don't have much experience when it comes to estimating durations. My question is, is it best practice to use whole days when inputting activity durations? I understand that having fraction or decimals of ...
Nov 1, 2018
P6 Calendar changes during the project
Forum TopicHelloI have a couple of questions regarding the calendar within P6.1) If you are working on a project which starts with only a day shift then so far into the project a night shift is introduced, do you need to reflect this night shift work in the cal...
Nov 1, 2018
After Importing Project, Resource Name Appear As Symbol And Strange Characters
Forum TopicHi all, I Have problem after importing project to primavera p6 17.7 , everything is ok except the resources names become and appear in a starnge symbols, tried to change fonts from table font and row option , but no changes, Also changed the windows ...
Nov 1, 2018
2019 Planning, Scheduling, Project Controls Conferences
Forum TopicHello everyone, Can you suggest any interesting conferences, events, gatherings (large and small) comming up in 2019, associated with the following topics? - technical scheduling/planning- oracle primavera p6 focused- turnaround/shutdown processes- p...
Nov 2, 2018
Hijacked Discussion - Sorry for any inconvenience.
Forum TopicI am opting out of this discussion - the theme was "Leveling effort instead of resource quantity is wrong" but from the very beginning it was hijacked into a discussion completely irrelevant to the main theme.Sorry for any inconvenience.Best Regards...
Nov 3, 2018
Physical % complete of overall plan
Forum TopicMorning all, If I add the column Physical % complete, is there a reason it won't show me that percentage on the top line as it does with schedule % complete etc? Is there a way to make it do so or is it a calculation problem that causes it?Thanks, T...
Nov 5, 2018
Filter for tasks that have slipped at specific progress period
Forum TopicCan aonyone help ,I am trying to create a filter for tasks that have slipped at a specific progress period but cant work out how to do this.Can ayone advise?ThanksChris
Nov 5, 2018