Recommended EPC Scheduling books
Forum TopicAny recommendations on essentail books for EPC scheduling? I am trying to increase my knowledge within EPC. Thanks.
Sep 18, 2019
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Performance % Complete showing 0%
Forum TopicI have an EPC resource loaded schedule that is not giving me a performance % complete percentage. All of the activites are "physical" % complete type. However, I only have resource in the engineering side and not in the construction or procurement. W...
Sep 18, 2019
wbs in primavera
Forum TopicIve imported a msp file into p6 using mpx. I inherited the msp but the wbs went down to activity level.Ive imported it and the wbs only goes to summary level.My client will be expecting the wbs to go to activity level like the msp plan he handed over...
Sep 19, 2019
Reasons list for works that was not completed
Forum TopicHello!In Oil and Gas industry it is common to have a number of reports such as KPI, Backlog, Corrective work, Preventive works, Work Readiness and other metrics to measure how was performance planned and executed. Most plants use weekly KPIs and week...
Sep 24, 2019
Global Resource vs Project Resource
Forum TopicWhat is the best practice on resource assignment. Is it good to create resources for each project or use the global resource. What would be issue if we just use the global resource, please.
Sep 24, 2019
Use Windows sysadmin to create primavera DB
Forum TopicDear Allthank you for hosting me first of all, this is my first topic (hopefully i opened it correctly)i would like to ask you the below question:is there a way to use a windows account (that already has sysadmin role) in my MS SQL to create a primav...
Sep 25, 2019
Withdrawal by Contractor in the early stage
Forum TopicHi All,After the award of Contract and just after the mobilisation time period, the Contractor sent letter to Client stating that they are unable to carry out the works due to some internal issues in the Organization. Also they want a no future claim...
Sep 26, 2019
Adjusting budgeted manhours after already assigning baseline
Forum TopicI have an EPC schedule that has been manhours and resourced loaded to the baseline. However, I have already actualized activies and I have also delelted some activites as well per PM. Now the PM is telling me I need to reduce the amount of manhours. ...
Sep 27, 2019
P6 Error: TDBXError - VTRAT-4016-2 - TCVirtualTable.RefreshAppend: TASKRSRC: database disk image is malformed
Forum TopicHello Gents/Madams,I am using P6 Professional 18. When I imported a MS Project (XML), it was unlucky that It got an error like that: Type: TDBXError Event Code: VTRAT-4016-2 Description: TCVirtualTable.RefreshAppend: TASKRSRC: database disk image is ...
Oct 2, 2019
Primavera P6, 16.1: Progress line on collapsed group activities
Forum TopicHi, Is there any way to make progress lines track the grouping of collappsed activities. I have late start activities and it tracks the individual activities and milestones but if I collapse them in group lets say grouped in Level 1, the progress lin...
Oct 3, 2019
Thermal Power Plant Planning Knowledge Sharing Needed
Forum TopicDear Experts,I'm working on thermal power plant planning project, kindly give me some ideas about power plant planning,areas to concetrate and how to proceed on planning usingIf you have any planning related documents please share.
Oct 3, 2019
Event PPUSP-2728-E
Forum TopicHi,I am getting an event interception PPUSP-2728-E. The details of the error is as follows.PasteProjectUsingSP returned error -1Error inserting into PROJCOSTORA-12952: The request exceeds the maximum allowed database size of 4 GBUnable to copy tasks ...
Oct 3, 2019
Project Management
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Oct 3, 2019
Progress measurement Procedure
Forum TopicHi everybody,During the etablishement of the contract who is responsible of the production of the Progress measurement Procedure, is it the planner ? or the project manager ?
Oct 4, 2019
Project slips more than 7 days after 1 week update
Forum TopicHello,I am facing a problem updating my schedule. my Project is behind schedule and finish date is sliped ahead than baseline finish date. Now I update my schedule after 1 week, so the finish date must slip by 7 days. But it slip more than 7 days and...
Oct 8, 2019
Excel spread sheet to read XER files
Forum TopicLooking for excel spread sheets or the likes to read xer files and produce curves and any other helpful information. I have one "01-XER-READER" which I found very good but wondered if there was a actual curve that could be added. There may be also...
Oct 8, 2019
To all Engineers who use the Primavera's Magic Tools Family
Forum TopicTo all Engineers who use the Primavera's Magic Tools familyNow you can update all tools from these links:SDK Magic Tool: You can update it from this linkhttp://www.mediafire.com/file/ougb7bfikqdae9n/SDK_Magic_Tool.xlsm/file XER Magic Tool: ...
Feb 6, 2020
Substantiating Delays in a Project
Forum TopicHello Everyone,I'm doing scheduling for four years and slowly pulled into claim analysis and schedule auditing. Therefore, I have limited knowledge and your expert opinion would be appreciated.I'm working on a project with 12,000 and doing schedule a...
Feb 7, 2020
ADR Dissertation Questionnaire HELP!!
Forum TopicHi Guys,Please could you spare 5 minutes of your time to fill out my questionnaire about alternative dispute resolution, i'm struggling to get any replies and i'm in desperate need for this data. If only part of the questionnaire can be filled in the...
Feb 7, 2020
p6 _ Resource Assignments
Forum TopicHi,I have a question about applying the Actual on Primavera p6. like you see in the picture below, i made an export from resource assignments to excel : [[wysiwyg_imageupload:7246:]] and i want to use this spreadsheet to implement the actual unit pe...
Feb 8, 2020