CAPPS - Struggling Interproject Dependencies
Project Managers do some of the heavy-lifting to lighten the project controls team workload.
Weekly updating of OPEX and CAPEX projects in an Operational Plant
Client Overview
When you are working in an operational plant with daily maintenance, small upgrade projects and major expansion capital projects all going on at once, it is critical to manage schedule inter-dependencies and potential impacts so that nothing goes off the rails.
Challenges
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Reporting weekly progress and monthly costs to date on over 50-100 projects
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Reviewing inter-dependencies, schedule impacts, and coordinating crews with area holds
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Balancing the project controls teams' overtime each week and at the end of the month
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Ensuring interproject critical path analysis was done
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Getting updates from remote engineering firms in different time zones
Results
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With CAPPS, weekly status updates were done by the project managers and submitted to the project controls team for approval in P6
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Monthly cost updates and forecasting of EAC were done by the project managers and submitted to the project controls team for approval in P6
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Key management milestone reporting was streamlined significantly
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Project controls teams were freed up to deal with larger turnaround projects
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Project controls teams were able to focus on P6 re-scheduling and critical path analysis