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Lets face it, Shutdowns Turnarounds Outages (STO) are pretty intense, and can take a toll on mental health if they are not going to plan.

However, they are vital, to ensure the smooth running of business critical assets, such as - chemical plants, refineries, power stations and more.

The key to a less stressful shutdown turnaround outage is how they are planned, managed, and ultimately, executed. At IAMTech, our software has managed hundreds of successful shutdowns, turnarounds, outages, for the world's leading companies like ALTRAD, BP, INEOS, SHELL and many others.

This first hand experience, not theory, allows us to help others improve their STO’s.

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Here are some simple tips on how to reduce stress managing your shutdowns turnarounds outages.

Both Primavera P6 and Powerproject are powerful planning and scheduling tools mainly used as construction project portfolio management solutions.

Based on the needs of your project, program or portfolio, each tool can provide different benefits.

The article below lists these features and differences in detail to help you better understand which tools best fits your project requirements.

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What Is the Portfolio Management Lifecycle?

Many organizations suffer from an inability to differentiate between “good busy” and “bad busy.” Investing time and money on projects that look good on paper doesn’t mean they’ll contribute to the organization’s core objectives. Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a process that helps companies gain clarity to choose and execute the right projects.

Read the article to learn how to drive better financial performance across your organization in the long term.  

Creating cashflows with P6 Expenses has many advantages and some disadvantages over using resources. For example Expenses may:

• Have an actual cost assigned before an activity has started allowing the payment of contractor mobilisation,
• Have a remaining cost after an activity is complete to represent contract retention or a contractor back charge,
• Be negative to allow for charge back to contractors,
• Be applied to Milestones, whereas Resources may not, 
• But it is difficult to get time phased Expense quantities out of P6.

This paper outlines:

• How to create Expenses and assign them to an activity, and
• The way P6 Expense calculate cash flows of unstarted, in progress and completed activities in all three scenarios of no actual expenditure, some expenditure are completed expenditure. 

Accelerate your understanding of scheduling software to advance your scheduling career and be able to prepare better schedules with Eastwood Harris books, online videos available through Udemy and training material on:

• Microsoft Project,
• Oracle Primavera P6 and
• Elecosoft (Asta) Powerproject 

Details at Eastwood Harris

Paul E Harris

Director Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd

Primavera P6 is a sophisticated Project Management Tool utilized in a variety of industries for planning and scheduling.

Check out these tips and tricks on how to enhance your Primavera P6 knowledge, so that you can benefits from this tools advanced features.

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Cost Engineering Academy is an academy of professionals with over 25 years of experience, which shares knowledge and experience in the field of project controls. Level up your current and/or new coming career path with the courses of this quarter:

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By 2035, more than 50% of global power generation will come from renewable sources. As the industry’s technology advances and the costs of renewable energy continue declining, new opportunities will be revealed. 

Find out how you can capture cost-saving opportunities and help shape a more sustainable future.

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Last year Cleopatra Enterprise published a survey to deepen their understanding of the project controls trends and developments. After receiving responses from over 300 organizations worldwide, Cleopatra Enterprise is proud to present the report, summarizing the most curtail findings of the survey, including:

• The key factors for delivering successful projects
• What high performing project teams have in common
• Barriers and benefits of using today’s project controls tools and technology
• …and more!

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