Primavera P6 Calendar Generator Utility

Generate P6 calendars instantly to model complex workforce availability windows

• Ensure safe work sites without lost time
• Adhere to complex wildlife management restrictions
• Dynamically manage weather windows and road ban timeframes
• Emulate P3 meeting type activities

Problem

In the world of rail maintenance, the complexity of scheduling large specialty crews and equipment working on track, tie, and ballast upgrades can be very challenging. Scheduling without compromising train traffic and having to work with an unpredictable work seasons, like we have in Canada, is not easy. To safely schedule these crews and keep train traffic flowing requires logistics coordination 3, 2, and 1 week in advance of execution. Additional last minute coordination may also be needed the day of work execution.

Furthermore, in many projects, restrictions to work windows exist to accommodate wildlife management controls. These can include caribou migration patterns, fish spawning windows, potential river flooding and tornado or monsoon seasons. In the colder areas, scheduling around road ban windows can also be a challenge to the scheduling team.

Solution

To avoid manual scheduling, erroneous constraining of tasks, unnecessary lagging, and duration changes, the Emerald P6-Calendar Generator allows schedulers to dynamically generate calendars for hard to model tasks to get a more accurate schedule without aggravation and poor schedule development practices.

For rail maintenance, the dynamically created activity calendars reflect available track time and crew time to ensure an accurate reflection of safe work location availability. Ensuring your work crews are not scheduled to work in wildlife protected areas during migration windows will also be much simpler to model, particularly when there are numerous overlapping restrictive work windows to adhere to.

The P6-Calendar Generator allows the scheduler to define geographical areas with special calendars and apply those calendars to the activities that will take place in those areas. The planner then defines what resources or crews will perform those tasks and what their work calendars are. The P6-Calendar Generator then finds the intersection and safe time for the task to be scheduled.

A Few of Our Clients

• Major rail company in North America
• Major mining company in New Mexico
• Major oil & gas company in Canada

Users

Rail, pipelines, highways, rapid transit, airports, utilities, health care, oil & gas, and anyone who needs to intersect resources with complex access and work face availability patterns.