Emerald sent two implementation specialists four months before the TA started. They set up P6 and created a resource-loaded CPM schedule.

Used P6-Loader to automate grabbing simple Work Order, Task, and Resource sheets from Excel to create the P6 schedule. More packages were being developed and loaded right throughout the turnaround.

A full critical path schedule was built, resource leveling was developed, and reporting and metrics were standardized.

Emerald helped run their three subsequent TAs.

Utilized TAPS for updating progress of the activities.

EPS caching of the list of projects shown during an extraction operation.

Fixes to some UI issues with the scrollbar disappearing.

New UI - The P6-Loader is now a React application with a completely redesigned look and feel

Uses the Emerald Cloud API for better controls of business functions

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.

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

Better session handling. The P6-Loader will disconnect properly from the P6 database when a session is no longer needed.

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

Led design sessions for changes to global structures, stage gate templates, and consistent deliverables

Remapping and migration was done with P6-Loader after each working session so management could see the changes right away

Training was delivered by Emerald using custom developed UPK content and small working sessions for the different business leaders and then team project managers

Management Dashboard for timesheet submissions, project stage gate and milestones from templates were developed

Realtime updates from Oracle E-Business EAM into P6 for Projects, Work Orders, Tasks and Resources allowing for easier plan development for maintenance work, mini-outage work, turnaround work windows and capital programs across several plants

Implemented within 6 months including dev, test, QA, and production. P6-Loader was used to move the P6 coding structures, EPS, OBS, codes, UDFs, and resources in a matter of minutes and to maintain these environments.

Better analysis of planned resource requirements, spending planning and timeframes across the capital programs throughout the plants

Improved delivery on outage deadlines, timeframes and what-if capability particularly related to managing production capacity across the plants

Better understanding of mining equipment and productivity rates for improved forecasting. Reduced effort to build the schedules, allowing better management of the short 1-2 power outage windows.

P6-Calculator ensured auto-archiving of the projects and work orders to keep the P6 database clean and manageable and to produce rollup data for resources and flagging of integration changes

Implemented P6 for planning the drilling program

Migrated from SAP report into P6 - used the P6-Loader to load in projects, WBS, and costs

Easy visualization and comprehension of the plan in P6

Consistent templating of data across the portfolio

Saved weeks of data entry