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Productivity norms standards

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Dear all,Hello,              I am involved in a MEP construction project for a high rise project in UAE, I am missing the productivity norms/standard manhours for electrical activities in order to monitor and compare prcisely the planned and actual p...

Nov 19, 2014

Primavera P6 V7.0 resource data export to xl

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Hi GuysAppologies if this is an old chestnut but I have just moved jobs and using P6 V7 for the first time.Also new to this forumI am struggling to get the resource allocation data out of P6 and into xlsTried the wizard but still no joyCould anyone p...

Nov 19, 2014

Primavera P6 V7.0 resource data export to xl

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Hi GuysAppologies if this is an old chestnut but I have just moved jobs and using P6 V7 for the first time.Also new to this forumI am struggling to get the resource allocation data out of P6 and into xlsTried the wizard but still no joyCould anyone p...

Nov 19, 2014

Entry of actual man hours by maintenance supervisor

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In my department there are many kpi's for maintenace planning such as schedule compliance , Planning and Scheduling Effectiveness (Actual versus Planned completion) ,emergancy man hours & rework man-hours.most of those reports are based on the actual...

Nov 19, 2014

scheduling sequence in design and procurement

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Hi all,May i request you time to get some explanation regarding the design and the procurement in a major puming statiion. My understanding is like as follows,1. For the design works, the main contractor will make the Process Flow Diagram(PFD) and th...

Nov 20, 2014

New planning engineering role- Pls Help!!!

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Hi all,Though I'm new to this forum but having read several posts from the archive, I am optimistic that someone will be able to assist me a great deal. Straight to the point, I had just gotten a new role as a planning engineer with a consultant in a...

Nov 20, 2014

EPS for p6 ver. 8.3

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Hello,Good day to you, any body can tell me how to shift project from EPS name to another EPS name ??Reply pme please.

Nov 22, 2014

Activity driving, links problem

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Need Hels guys..ive been using MS Project and P3 for almost 5yrs above and recently ive changed to Enterprise P6 8.2, my problem is when i create my 1st schedule in P6 8.2 after setting activities, duration, predecessor, successor and all, when i cha...

Nov 24, 2014

Time Impact Analysis on as-planned programme

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Hi all,Recently I received a programme, which is scheduled to complete before the contractual completion, say 30 days before, and a buffer activity(30 days) is inserted to meet the contract completion date.I would like to have your views in case of a...

Nov 24, 2014

How To Downgrade Internet Explorer (IE) 11 to IE 10 Or Earlier

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For companies implementing Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Portfolio Project Management (EPPM) R8.3.2 or earlier, you will need to downgrade your user base to IE 10. P6 EPPM is not supported and doesn’t work with IE 11. Whatever your reasons for needi...

Nov 24, 2014

Tunneling -Drill & Blast Excavation rates

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Not really my area, so I thought I'd ask the brains trust: I have a tunnel section of 6m x 8m to be excavated in Granitic material which is likely to be fairly massive. Approx tunnel Length 15km with a mid point adit so each drive is 3-4km. Expectati...

Nov 24, 2014

How to remove symbols (*, A) from Dates

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Hello everyone,when I creat a report in order to extract the Finish Dates of the Activity IDs and put them in an excel database, activities that are in progress or performed, will be extract in this way: PRC-3000/010Completed01-09-14 A15-09-14 AActiv...

Nov 24, 2014

Forecast curve preparation to Client

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Hi All,In our Project, we have to prepare a forecast cost curve along with the monthly report. I am following the below procedure to make it in P6, with the settings"fixed durations and units" and "Physical Percent Complete"After updating the schedul...

Nov 25, 2014

Urgent Help Needed - Smelter Plant Schedule

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Good day ColleaguesIve been put into a situation whereby my CEO requires me to urgently put together a schedule for a smelter plant (One of those situatins where they do not understand that you need some form of scope to create a schedule). Ive only ...

Nov 25, 2014

Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS)

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Here we look at what is Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) and are there any benefits over Monte Carlo ow.ly/ERdLw

Nov 25, 2014

Webinars

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Hi AllI recently broadcast my first webinar on the topic of "Bottom Up Planning for Builders".It consisted of a live demonstration of a level 4 programme for:1. An eight story insitu structure.2. The MEP carcassing installation3. A 50km pipeline.Each...

Nov 27, 2014

Progress Review Meetings

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I work for a large construction company who is taking part in a billion dollar mega project. We have several projects of $1-10 million work. Our progress reviews are not based on a programme and a schudular is not even at these meeting. Instead QSs a...

Nov 28, 2014