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Productivity Calculation for Steel Works

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Hi all.I need help on the productivity calculation for structural steel worksHow many manpower we should consider for how many tonnage.Now i have 700ton steel beams and column. It is for the construction of 6 floor factory expansion. The duration is ...

Dec 12, 2023

Productivity Calculation for Steel Works

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Hi all.I need help on the productivity calculation for structural steel worksHow many manpower we should consider for how many tonnage.Now i have 700ton steel beams and column. It is for the construction of 6 floor factory expansion. The duration is ...

Dec 12, 2023

DCMA 14 and Level 2 schedule

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Needing a reference or guidance. A L2 schedule should be a roll up from a L3 schedule. Sometimes however a L2 schedule may be an early deliverable long before a L3 is developed fully due to lack of design and/or subcontractor information. Maybe L2 is...

Dec 13, 2023

LLM and Project Management - The Intelligence in AI is limited!

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The best known LMM (Large Language Model) is ChatGPT. The developers acknowledge ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers. Fixing this issue is challenging, as during the LLM training there is no single source ...

Dec 20, 2023

Critical Path Characteristics and Definitions

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:8564:]]I’m wondering what is causing the confusion appearing in so many posts lately concerning the definition of the critical path. Is it:A lack of knowledge?People being out of date and using superseded definitions?People not ...

Dec 29, 2023

Schedule Weighting using the top down estimation tool

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Hi AllI am having a challenge with weighting my schedule using top-down estimation. I have used the top-down estimation tool for a while now without any hastles but I am experiencing some issues this time around. I usually weight my WBS in the WBS wi...

Jan 10, 2024

Using WPM to augment CPM predictions

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We all know (or should know) that when a project is running late, the predicted completion date calculated by the ‘critical path method’ (CPM) at an update tends to be optimistic, and this bias remains true for predictions based on simple time analys...

Jan 11, 2024

Report to identify useless Dependencies

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Hi P6ers! I hope 2024 is a great year for you. Does anyone have a way of identifying if an activity has the same predecessor as SS and FF? Or more clearly, any report that identifies duplicated predecessors to another activity? Thanks, Rod

Jan 11, 2024

P6 Duration types and " Project Planned Start"

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Hi all, i have a couple of quesions. I would appreciate every one's input on this :  1- under primavera project detals tab and under dates, what is " project planned start" where it is reading from?2- I have searched a lot, but what are the different...

Jan 21, 2024

Corrupt database

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Hello, A friend got his P6 database corrupt and this is the error he receivesWhat could be the source of the error and is there any possible solution? Thanks,[[wysiwyg_imageupload:8577:]]

Jan 24, 2024

How to do a master plan for 3 projects in one master plan?

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I have a question which I have been asked in an interview - How to do a master plan for 3 projects in one master plan? My guess was to make a one plan for each single project but I did not confirm my answer so I share this topics for discussion

Jan 30, 2024

Calculate costs from units

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Hi everyone, just wondering is there any one who is not ticking these two options and if yes, can you tell my you won't tick the boxes for these two? What would be the difference?  This is where you have your resources, under detail, profile.

Feb 11, 2024

Level of effort activity

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Good morning all,please,could some one to explain me why:i have created a LOEF activity for rented non labor resource for a certain number of activities.i have created a base line for my plan.During the progress my plan shown a certain delay ,there f...

Feb 17, 2024

Dates are being exported from P6

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Hi Everyone,I am exporting a project from P6 to .xer and when I import the xer file to another planning tool (ACC), the start/finish dates does not appear.I have the same .xer file to 2 of my colleagues, tried to import it in ACC and the same issue h...

Feb 22, 2024