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Baseline Comments Received

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Baseline Comments. Some of the comments for a baseline are listed below. Appreciate your comments.1. Project Milestones. Is it compulsory to have successors to milestones.2. Restriction of maximum duration for activities to 20 days. Some long lead it...

May 28, 2012

Finish date is not same as Early finish or late finish

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Hi, I need urgent help. I am using p6v7.I never faced this problem. I have an activity with type WBS summary.In this we have Project start (15 sep-2011)and project finish(15-sep-2014). Early finish is 15-sep-2014.Late finish is 15-sep-2014.But the Fi...

May 28, 2012

Looking for P6

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I am looking for P6 files for model projects so please help me.Thanks

May 29, 2012

Daily Qtys - P6

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Morning All, Is it possible to add daily qtys into P6. Our engineers enter daily qtys into a spreadsheet and I would like to track it in P6. I am currently focused on tracking of crushing - I update the programme weekly and P6 spreads my qty evenly a...

May 29, 2012

Civil Infrastructure project help

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Hi Everybody!!!!!   I have been given a project of already built 30 villas and the project is planning of road, water supply, and electricity supply to those villas. I dont have any idea since previously i was involved with MEP building planning........

May 29, 2012

Powerproject and Lean/Last Planner System

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Hello All,Does anyone have experience or knowledge on how Asta Powerproject lends iteself to Lean Construction and Last Planner System?  Is anyone using the line of balance feature?Justin

May 29, 2012

Quantity in primavera

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I'm a new user.Just now completed primavera p6. Whatever planning we are doing in Primavera all are in Duration basics.. how to plan in Quantity.. like For piping in Inch dia For Equipment in Weight.. etc       Please send sample project if any.. tha...

May 30, 2012

how to control a design phase in a EPC project?

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HI! I want to get some advice for schedule and track design phase in a EPC project. I cannt give you more detail about our company's process. it's too bad to monitor a design schedule well. I just want know how about yours. some roles in the design p...

May 30, 2012

Delete all relationships

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Hello Planners,Is there an easy way to delete all relationships from a schedule in P6.7. I used to do it with global change in P3 but it doesn't works in P6.7 !!!P6.7 global change is not efficient !!Regards,Aymen

May 30, 2012

P6 Column Height.

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Planners Can we change the height of the column heading in p6,not a issue with the width or the font,just not sure on the height. Thanks   Martin 

May 31, 2012

Planning guide for re-measured contract

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Hi Friends, Baseline Approved base on the Contract BOQ. Since its a re measured contract, monthly my quantities vary. Please suggest me a proper way to monitor the progress, provide Plan % progress (Is it base on the Contract BOQ) then how about for ...

May 31, 2012

Splitting activities in P6

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Hi The normal form of splitting activities is to use the 'Suspend' and 'Resume' functions in P6. However I find that this does not work in my P6 system. The activity does not indicate a stop and restart date in my Gantt chart. Is there something I am...

May 31, 2012

PLEASE CLARIFY THE BELOW DOUBTS.!!!

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Hello sir,I have big doubts in primavera P61) While loading the resourcesThe avaliability of resources where we have to give?2)In resource coloumn What is ment by MAXUnits/TIME3)While loading the resources for 1 activity we need 5 helpers in that cas...

May 31, 2012

Performance Factor Calculation

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Dear planners. I like to know your opinion about the calcutation of Perfomance Factor wich is the relationship between earned units and actual units. Someones use period units to calculate that, but others use accumulate units. I mean, in some cases ...

May 31, 2012

Performance Factor Calculation

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Dear planners. I like to know your opinion about the calcutation of Perfomance Factor wich is the relationship between earned units and actual units. Someones use period units to calculate that, but others use accumulate units. I mean, in some cases ...

May 31, 2012

Delette Specific Resource Assignment by Excel Import

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Hi I do want to remove a specific resource assignment (I have multiple resources assigned to each task), in old P3 i was doing with excel export / import mark Yes the "delette record" column I tried with P6 using "Yes", "Y" but it is not able to reco...

Jun 1, 2012

External Relationships in P6v8

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Attention fellow Planners, I need help to fix our level 3 construction schedule development in P6. The situation is described below:1) There is 3 project files involved as follows:File 1: Current EP Schedule @ Production NodeFile 2: Update/Back-up EP...

Jun 2, 2012

Planned Dates, Duration & Scheduling in P6

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I seek help from the forum members on the following: When I schedule P6, the non progressed activities acquire the data date as their Planned Start Date and the Original Duration also changes. I guess some setting may be wrtong, but I couldn't locate...

Jun 2, 2012