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Turnaround schedule levels

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In 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

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HelloI´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

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Hello 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

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Everytime 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

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Is 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

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Dear 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

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Hi 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)

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HelloI 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

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HelloI 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

2019 Planning, Scheduling, Project Controls Conferences

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Hello 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.

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I 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

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Morning 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

What are the main differences between a Forum and a Blog?

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Because Blogs and Forums are under separate tab and have a different layout there must be some reason and purpose for this.  Perhaps is how postings are moderated but I do not want to speculate, better if PP Admin tells me.No matter what the reason a...

Nov 5, 2018

Oil and Gas - Piping Tie In Schedule

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Hello Everyone,What are the Ativities to be considered in a Piping Tie In Schedule. I do know Hight LEvel Activities but would like to know more like breaking it into Level 5.The case is " The Oil and Gas Plant is live and we would be shutting down t...

Nov 6, 2018

Export to excel problem

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HelloI prepare my schedule on primavera p6... it has 3 wbs levels. All activities in same wbs level has their own IDs (for example superstructural works' ID = SP1000, SP1010, SP1020 in p6 schedule, and finishing works' ID= FNS1000, FNS1010,FNS1020 .....

Nov 7, 2018

Step Wise Quide for all Delay Analysis Tchniques

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Hi,I'm looking for step wise guideline for all 4 types of delay analysis. 1 - As Planned vs As Built2 - Windows Delay Analysis3 - Retrospective time impact analysis4 - Collapsed As Built.Detailed articles or books suggestions are also welcome..TIA

Nov 7, 2018

Consumable Resources - Reports

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I have my programme fully resourced with "Consumable Resources" i.e Materials.  I would ideally like to be able to export a spreadsheet which shows me:The quantity I have of each Consumable Resource The % of the Consumable Resource which has been use...

Nov 7, 2018

Exporting P6 Project to Import on Laptop

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I exported a project from one computer so to import on another via an XER.  The project has quite a few EPS level Activity Codes and none of these are coming over with the import onto the Lap top.  Any reason why?  There are no options to elimnate EP...

Nov 7, 2018