In less than 2 hours, the P6-QA tool ran and gave the open ends

In less than 2 hours, P6-QA helped with the explanation and write-up of the critical path

Identified leads, lags, and constraints and reported on them in minutes

The coding structure required to see the disciplines and key building areas tied to major project turnover milestones for the retail space, the hotel space, and the condominium towers was achieved with little pre-knowledge of the project

Had to work through a few field size issues on the extracts and clashing with Windows limitations

Extracted thousands of documents in a few days

Delivered a complete zip package to the client that does not depend on any specific software

Created a new form in PCM to include some important information that was excluded from the existing forms.

Restored customer data into a PCM environment constructed specifically for archiving as the client's environment was offline and could not be recovered.

Modified PCM Archiver to include Letters.

After a few technical challenges to start, we were able to archive all the projects in one day

Team can easily access information - no need to be a PCM Expert

Can put the files into the cloud common repository

They were able to turn off an old Windows server

Focus training on users who needed it

Determine active users in P6 and license distribution

When a deletion of activity code types occurred, company was able to recover quickly from the data loss

One administrator is able to handle all user and codes maintenance for 10+ databases.

P6-Loader allows the team to continue to cost load much more quickly each month.

Handling cross project relationships is much less error prone now after receiving XERs from contractors on each update; it is a simple extract logic, change the project reference and reload!

The project controls team is able to tackle problems that they could not prior.

P6-Auditor has allowed them to keep a finger on the pulse of their schedules and gives them a means for disaster recovery.

TAPS was initially used at the Ferndale Refinery and saved so much time, it is used on turnarounds at all the company’s refineries now.

After using P6-Loader at the Ferndale refinery, the tool was purchased company-wide for use with all P6 databases.

Moved hosting of four databases to the Emerald Cloud.

Decreased supported response time from days to hours

Able to bring their DOT client online with their environment in less than two months, including upgrade of P6 and rollout of new business processes.

Added a second DOT client to Emerald's hosting environment two years later.

The New Zealand group got TAPS at the recommendation of the Engineering leads, and this has been great for them. With TAPS, the updating process was much more smooth and painless.

The team had a lot less stress, and reporting was simplified.

Accurate forecasting went up significantly.

The turnarounds have been smoother on the impact analysis.

Better mitigation of work area access.

Implemented OPRA (Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis) then upgraded to Safran Risk

Safran Risk has robust cost/schedule integration

Emerald ran Safran Risk online training for the users

Using P6-Calculator to flag and count key in-service milestones within P6 and then snapshotted for use within Power BI

P6-Loader was used to cleanup manually created data that was used in the reporting to set up standards

P6-Reporter automatically snapshotted the reports every Monday at 8am to give management current reports for the weekly status meeting

P6-Calculator did automatic quarterly and monthly flagging for easy data validation across P6 and Power BI

Produced overall project metrics, in-service monitoring, construction readiness, and scheduling team production reporting

P6-Auditor allows for ongoing metrics for schedule performance on update counts to avoid bottlenecks and back dating tasks

With CAPPS, weekly status updates were done by the project managers and submitted to the project controls team for approval in P6

Monthly cost updates and forecasting of EAC were done by the project managers and submitted to the project controls team for approval in P6

Key management milestone reporting was streamlined significantly

Project controls teams were freed up to deal with larger turnaround projects

Project controls teams were able to focus on P6 re-scheduling and critical path analysis

CAPPS was deployed to key project managers and suppliers

Weekly updates were prepared and reviewed in meetings prior to submission to keep the communication flowing smoothly

Used percent complete, resource usage and cost to date

Reporting improvement and better forecasting was achieved

P6-Loader was used to clean up project templates for some 500 projects in play to acquire consistency

CAPPS is used for weekly updates by over 150 PMs

The project controls teams review and approve all updates in P6 and discuss any anomalies with the PMs right away

CAPPS is allowing meeting updates to run more efficiently with the on-screen grid

Program management reporting is now being done with a lot less stress and overtime

P6-Calculator allows for flagging of variances and easy filtering of late and overdue items for the schedulers to find across hundreds of projects

Emerald's Turnaround Productivity Package - TAPS, P6-Loader, EP-dashboard, and EP-datawarehouse was implemented

Schedule updates are now completed in less than a quarter of the time. Updating takes a matter of minutes using TAPS, rather than several hours

P6-Loader streamlined the addition of found work to both the working schedule and the baseline schedule

EP-datawarehouse is used to store snapshotted data for multiple uses for EV and Trending

EP-dashboards utilize the snapshot data to create custom dashboards for management including Green-Ups, Inspections and S-Curves