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Customized Report

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On my project,I want to prepare a  report for monthly distributed count for Engineering Work Packages(EWPs).One EWP is represented by one activity. Total count is the activity count planned for each project calendar month during the length of project...

Dec 15, 2010

Reporting planned out of hours material deliveries

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Need a little guidance and also my first post!!I have a live project currently thats working 6 normal dayshifts.Due to client instructions, the programme is being delayed and client wants to instruct acceleration. They want 2 options for a 16hr worki...

Dec 15, 2010

Schedule for Nuclear Startup

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Hello All,    I have worked in fossil fuel industry in project controls for several years but now I am in the Nuclear Power Plants industry. Anyone out here have any experience in planning Start-up Integration? Particularly in Instrumentation and Con...

Dec 15, 2010

Middleware between MS Project and SAP

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Has any of you worked using software tools that connect the data between MS Project and SAP, especially for material control on the procurement portion of the schedule?. My understanding is that you run this tool and the data in MS Project is updated...

Dec 16, 2010

Installation of SDK

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Hi Planners, Can Any one tell me how I can install SDK for P6. Thanx

Dec 16, 2010

Scope for Piping design engineer with experience of planning

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hi, I m working as piping design engineer for last 5 years till date.Now I m getting the opprtunity to work with project dept at planning engineer level  for oil & gas sector in my organsiation as projets dept require the Planning engineer with pipin...

Dec 16, 2010

global change

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Are there any wildcards that can be used in global change?  In other words if you want to pick out a word of an activity description and change that word, can you use *,!,# as wildcards?  I've tried this an can not get them to work, but I'm wondering...

Dec 16, 2010

Resources and Expenses: Time-scaled by Cost Account in Primavera P6

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The schedules I am currently working on have both resources and expenses assigned to activities. In order to be able to track approved cost modifications to the project, I assigned cost accounts to both resources and expenses. I was expecting, it wou...

Dec 16, 2010

Long shift in constructions work

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Good Morning to all planners  as you know about long shift in construction work, there is many disadvantage in long shift in Long-term, please if any one have good reference to submit to project manager,  I will be thankful best regards jihad aldaoud...

Dec 17, 2010

3D WBS

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Dear all, I would like to talk about a method I developed about Work Breakdown Structure: the 3D WBS. The idea is that there are 3 dimensions by project phase. Engineering Task = Discipline x Functional Systems x Activity or (Discipline x SBS x ABS) ...

Dec 17, 2010

Schedule Calculations

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There are a range of options for the calculation of dates and float in a CPM network. I’ve just finished a draft White Paper focusing on the basic calculations and would appreciate comments on the correctness of the calculations and the methodology a...

Dec 18, 2010

Schedule Calculations

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There are a range of options for the calculation of dates and float in a CPM network. I’ve just finished a draft White Paper focusing on the basic calculations and would appreciate comments on the correctness of the calculations and the methodology a...

Dec 18, 2010

Primavera Problems: Loading issues

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I have P6 stand alone application on my laptop,Recently its taking 20 mins to load after signing in, and then around 20 minutes to load each project Before i fire the laptop through the nearest window is there anyone out there who would know what the...

Dec 21, 2010

Planned progress for next two weeks or 2 months

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Hi-Experts. I am using P6 Ver-7. I want see planned progress for next 2 weeks or 2 months, I have baseline vs current project , which is showing  Planned  progress % vs Actual  progress  % for current months only. there is any way to see planned prog...

Dec 21, 2010