You can also create a milestone SND (Site Need Date). This milestone will be be linked to your civil work readiness (after concrete hardening). It will give your a target of delivery for your equipment.
Like this, you are not oblige at first to assign an ALAP status on your fabrication. You will be able to manage float between your need and your expected delivery.
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Submitted by Gary Whitehead on Mon, 2012-02-27 21:36
Depending on the software you are using, you may be able to assign an ALAP / as late as posible / zero free float constraint (the same thing, but called something different in different software packages) to the fabrication, instead of an early start constraint.
This type of constraint will schedule the fabrication to start as late as it can safely do so without delaying any of it's sucessors. It is common practise to use them to represent delivery of materials and equipment to site.
As with all constraints, I reccomend you trial it's use on a dummy project of 3 or 4 activities to make sure you understand fully how it works, before applying it to a live project.
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Submitted by emodeye kenneth on Wed, 2012-02-22 12:47
Other professional Engineers have handbooks that aid new and not so experienced Engineers, Please is a there a handbook for planning Engineers in the oil and gas sector?
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Submitted by Daniel Limson on Wed, 2012-02-22 11:04
I think the bottom line is that you need to evaluate and decide based on the most cost effective scenario, you need to ask yourself the following questions:
1. Can you delay mobilisation of resources for fabrication without any cost implication? if there is no cost implication then maybe it is your best option. If your resources are already on site then there is no point of delaying the activity unless of course you do not have a storage area, in which case we go to no. 2 below.
2. If you do not have a storage area, then you need to evaluate the cost implication of getting a temporary storage area vs delaying the activity (Resources on Standby) then compare the cost implication.
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19 years 7 monthsBilal,You can also create a
Bilal,
You can also create a milestone SND (Site Need Date). This milestone will be be linked to your civil work readiness (after concrete hardening). It will give your a target of delivery for your equipment.
Like this, you are not oblige at first to assign an ALAP status on your fabrication. You will be able to manage float between your need and your expected delivery.
Regards
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16 years 7 monthsBilal, Depending on the
Bilal,
Depending on the software you are using, you may be able to assign an ALAP / as late as posible / zero free float constraint (the same thing, but called something different in different software packages) to the fabrication, instead of an early start constraint.
This type of constraint will schedule the fabrication to start as late as it can safely do so without delaying any of it's sucessors. It is common practise to use them to represent delivery of materials and equipment to site.
As with all constraints, I reccomend you trial it's use on a dummy project of 3 or 4 activities to make sure you understand fully how it works, before applying it to a live project.
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18 years 2 monthsHi Guys,Other professional
Hi Guys,
Other professional Engineers have handbooks that aid new and not so experienced Engineers, Please is a there a handbook for planning Engineers in the oil and gas sector?
Regards
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24 years 1 monthHi Bilal,I think the bottom
Hi Bilal,
I think the bottom line is that you need to evaluate and decide based on the most cost effective scenario, you need to ask yourself the following questions:
1. Can you delay mobilisation of resources for fabrication without any cost implication? if there is no cost implication then maybe it is your best option. If your resources are already on site then there is no point of delaying the activity unless of course you do not have a storage area, in which case we go to no. 2 below.
2. If you do not have a storage area, then you need to evaluate the cost implication of getting a temporary storage area vs delaying the activity (Resources on Standby) then compare the cost implication.
Regards,
Daniel