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SPI/CPI and Project Change

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HiI understand how to calculate CPI and SPI and use them in communicating project status. However, can anyone tell me what would happen to these indicators if a project change was raised to alter the scope of delivery, which in turn impacted the time...

May 6, 2016

Resource dependent activities

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Hi members, I am working on my first Turnaround schedule on P6 8.2. 24x7, 2 shifts schedule. I have to assign 50% of my resources in the night shift and 100% in the day shift. I tried to use Task dependent activities and creating Shifts under 'Resour...

May 7, 2016

Combining works together

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There are two planning engineers in my company.We both have to create a baseline together for a building project.Now,I'm adding relationship of that project while he is assigning resources and costs for each activities.Are there any methods to combin...

May 8, 2016

Using Reflections in Primavera P6 Professional

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Reflections are a great way to examine schedule scope changes without permanently affecting your source schedule file. Here's how to use Reflections in Primavera P6 Professional http://ow.ly/WJXI3002sy9

May 9, 2016

Hvac

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Fellow Planers, I have been tasked (no pun intended) with generating a departmental/company Project Planning and Production Procedure for the Hvac Engineering and Manufacturing Company I work for. I was wondering if any of you would have any pointer ...

May 9, 2016

Only EPS is visible

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Hi,(Somebody please help)I am using P6 R8.4 webSince last two days I am upset that I am not able to see my projects. Even I am not able to create new projects.Please check the snap shot.When I asked the IT help desk they told its admin problem. and w...

May 10, 2016

start, finish and total float float

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Greetings to All.(it might be a stupid question)In P6 project layout we use start, finish and total float columns. we have original duration too. My question is on what basis total float is calculated. because total float = late start- Early start or...

May 10, 2016

Milestones progress measurement in Primavera

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Dear All,I am working on a project where we have a lump-sum contract. for the payment sake, the milestones are defined which are called Payment Milestones (PMS) each with its fixed values.Each of the milestone contains several activities ranging from...

May 10, 2016

How can we account for cash inflow in Primavera P6

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Hi Guys,   I have done cost outflow in P6 and I have the outflow distributed as per the schedule. I would like to know whether there is a techninique to show cash in-flow in P6. I would like to create a cash flow statement. Please , share with me you...

May 11, 2016

Can we account for cash inflow in Primavera ?

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Hi Guys,   I have done cost outflow in P6 and I have the outflow distributed as per the schedule. I would like to know whether there is a techninique to show cash in-flow in P6. I would like to create a cash flow statement. Please , share with me you...

May 11, 2016

asta power project

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Good morning All,I am trying to establish a KPI graph based on weekly activity count of the programme to display the progress of the project.All I can do is resource the project and and create a histogram based on all resources and export the data to...

May 11, 2016

Unable to configure P6 EPPM database with P6 Client.

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Hi,   Can you please explain how to configure P6 EPPM database schema with P6 client as im not able to configure same db instance in P6 client.Its saying you cant configure EEPM database in P6 Professional.

May 11, 2016

Issue with Role Limit in Resource Useage Profile

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I am having an issue with the Role "Limit" displaying correctly in my Resource Useage Profile. I have a Role, titled D7E, and we have (2) of these dozers in the company. So, I assigned 2 Units/ Day as the Max Units per Time for the D7E Role. However,...

May 12, 2016

How to transfer BOQ into acitivities

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Hello everyone, this is my first post here. I have been looking for an answer to this a long time but still haven't found a satisfactory one, so here goes:I have a Bill of quantities for a construction object that has around 100 items. Now some of th...

May 13, 2016

Editing Float

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Please someone help me..I have been creating a baseline for a high rise building project(Contract period is 2 years).I found that many activties have more than 200 days float and some activties have -1 (Minus one day) float. Although project completi...

May 16, 2016

Regular Maintenance vs. Turnaround Maintenance Cost

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Hi:I have been looking for some benchmark data or research to try and put numbers to costs associated with doing work during Turnaround (TAR) versus doing it as a normally scheduled maintenance task (OR OUTAGE) carried out by either in-house maintena...

May 17, 2016

Planning and SAP

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Hello Everyone,Just thought about checking what is the link of Planning and SAP. I have seen in many Job Profile requirement that the the person should know SAP also. Could anyone explain what is the link and for what SAP is used for. If it is useful...

May 17, 2016