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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

EOT Claim

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Hi all,In a remeasurable contract, can the contractor claim for EOT based on more work required during execution than planned. or a new basline(time) to be fixed accordingly, everytime the planned quantity changes?For eg:In the plan, there was 40LM o...

Nov 29, 2014

to display resources in the gant chart

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I am a new user in primavera p6, please can some one to show me how to display on the gant chart the resources assigned for each activity beside the bar.Thank you

Nov 29, 2014

Problems Importing a Russian XER file

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Evening All, I need to import an XER file, however, the file relates to a Russian Project and I am getting the following error message when importing:[[wysiwyg_imageupload:2339:]]Obviously, when I try to find the correlating currency setting it is no...

Nov 30, 2014

WBS indent error

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Hi, after I merged 2 schedules by importing XER, the WBS indent gone missing (see pic 1)[[wysiwyg_imageupload:2341:]] and I have noticed "???" on the group and sort drop down list as below[[wysiwyg_imageupload:2340:]]also, the WBS seem double at some...

Dec 1, 2014