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Abstract— Proper Planning and scheduling is very important in Metro Rail construction projects for reducing and
controlling delays of the project. Substantial amount of time, money, resources are wasted each year in a construction
industry due to improper planning and scheduling. With globalization the construction project have become vast and
complex. Planning of such requires huge amount of paper work, which can be reduced with the help of project planning
software. Providing good planning, sufficient of flow of resources to a project can be automatically achieved desired result.
This paper deals with some high potential parameters in Primavera software which significantly affect the project result.
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2) Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) A simple baseline plan is a complete copy of the
Create the structure of a company with its branches original schedule which provides a target against
which is executing the project. This is known as which a project’s performance is tracked.
Enterprise Project Structure 13) Updating schedule
3) Organizational breakdown structure (OBS) If the project is progressing exactly as planned,
After the EPS, OBS is created which is hierarchy that then only needed to estimate progress.
reflects the persons responsible for the project in the If the project is not progressing as planned
enterprise. many activities are starting out-of-sequence,
4) Calendar actual resource use is exceeding planned use,
The work is carried out in 6 days per week. So the and then update should be done for activities
standard 6 day workweek calendar is made with and resources individually.
necessary holidays in it. A break of one hour is given Most projects contain some activities that
in the afternoon. progress as planned and some which do not. In
5) Create a new project this case, the best method is to combine the
A project is a set of activates and associated two updating methods.
information that constitutes a plan for creating a 14) Tracking
product or service. The project is created under the Taking window is used for monitoring a project’s
respective division in the EPS and assigned in the progress using different types of layouts such as
person charged form OBS to it. The project can be labour costs, project cost, resource forecasting,
given planned start and must finish dates. The project
resource allocation unit wise and cost wise.
is assigned a calendar which can be global, resource
or project calendar. 15) Earned value
6) Work breakdown structure (WBS) Earned value is a technique for measuring project
WBS is a hierarchy of work that must be performance according to both project cost and
accomplished to complete the project. Each project schedule. The technique compares the budgeted cost
has its own hierarchy with top level WBS element of the work to the actual cost.
begin equal to that EPS nodes or project. Each WBS 16) Claim digger
element may contain more detailed WBS levels, the claim digger is a schedule analysis tool that
activities, or both. enables a company to generate a report that compares
7) Define activities selected data fields in a revised project and a
Activities are the fundamental work elements of a corresponding baseline.
project and form and from the lowest level of a WBS 17) Project thresholds
and, are the smallest subdivision of a project. An
Project thresholds consist of parameters assigned to
activity has the following characteristics like Activity
WBS elements; they are used to monitor projects and
ID, name, start and finish dates, activity calendar,
activity type, activity codes, constrains, expense, generate issues
successor and predecessor relationships, resources, 18) Project issues
roles etc. Project issues are the problems within a schedule that
8) Relationship between activities must be addressed before the project can be
To form a network the activities should be connected completed. They can either be created by thresholds
to each other, which is done by assigning preceding or manually.
and succeeding activities with significant relation to
the activities. Preliminary steps to be done in updating
Finish to start (FS) relationship. Choose project. Maintain baseline. Then add and save
Finish to finish (FF) relationship. a copy of current project as a new baseline B1. Then
Start to start (SS) relationship. choose project baseline as B1 and assign primary
Start to finish (SF) relationship. baseline as B1. Daily updates to be made:
9) Determining activity duration a) Start date and end date
When planning the work, the duration is entered in Choose the activity to be updated. Then in the
the original duration field. The actual duration can
activity details window, select status tab. Then tick
only be entered for the activities, which are
mark started if the activity has been started and select
completed.
10) Activity dates. the date. Tick mark finished if the activity has been
The following are the types of activity dates available finished and select the finish date.
in the primavera; actual start, actual finish, planned b) Resource
start, planned finish. In activity details window, select resource tab. Then
11) Activity cost. select the resources which are to be added to the
The activity cost is the sum of all the cost incurred to particular activity
complete the activity. c) Code
12) Creating baselines In activity details window, select code tab. Then
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