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          Introduction Plant turnarounds are highly complex projects requiring a systematic approach to manage schedules, budgets, safety, and execution. A procedural framework is essential to streamline activities, reduce inefficiencies, and achieve turnaround objectives without compromising quality or safety. This blog post outlines the five phases of the plant turnaround procedure, emphasizing […]

Introduction A plant turnaround is more than a scheduled downtime; it is a strategic process that ensures the long-term health and reliability of industrial facilities. Whether in manufacturing, oil and gas, or chemical processing, turnarounds are essential for maintaining operational efficiency, addressing critical maintenance, and complying with regulatory requirements. However, these planned outages require meticulous […]

Plant turnarounds in the power generation, oil and gas, chemicals and petrochemicals, pulp and paper, mining and minerals, utilities, and manufacturing sectors are critical yet complex undertakings essential for maintaining, inspecting, and upgrading industrial facilities. Despite their importance, these events often face significant challenges: more than half of all turnarounds experience significant delays, causing revenue […]

An enhancement to the histogram bars was added in Primavera P6 Professional versions 20 and newer. The resource and activity histogram views can be enabled to have their exact values labeled above the bars. Project managers and schedulers who regularly use the Resource Usage Profile, Activity Usage Profile or the Tracking Windows can now take […]

A new Primavera P6 scheduling feature has been added to versions 20 and up. The feature gives you the ability to choose whether to use the same or different Data Dates when scheduling multiple opened projects. What is Data Date in Primavera P6? The new data date in Primavera feature allows for more flexibility when […]

What’s new in Primavera P6 Professional? We published an article, about the recently added Check Schedule Report tool in Primavera P6 Professional version 22. An additional feature was added to supplement these check schedule parameters as a filter in the Activities Window. This is handy because it will show the activities that fail to meet […]

Have you ever wished you could have an additional activity window while trying to view your project in Primavera P6 Professional? Wouldn’t it be useful to view to two sections of the project activities on 2 windows. Or be able to open 2 projects and see their activities independently? Well now you can in the […]

The ability to run a report called Check Schedule used to be only available in Primavera P6 EPPM Web Access. Now with the newest version of P6 Professional, release 22, the Check Schedule report can be produced. Project Managers can use the tool to create a detailed report on the project schedule based on 14 […]

The Dissolve Activity feature in Primavera P6 Professional was explained project in this article, How to Dissolve an Activity. The function allows the removal an activity while maintaining the relationship connections and logic of that activity’s predecessors and successors. In P6 Professional versions 19 and newer, the additional option to choose to retain relationship lag […]

What happens when you have a sequence of activities and you need to remove one of the activities? Normally in the Primavera P6 Professional project management software, you would manually delete the activity that is no longer needed, then you would link any of its predecessor activities to its successor activities. For example, in Figure […]