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Identifying Scheduling Inefficiencies for Industrial Projects Using the Flowline View: A Case Study
Industrial construction projects are typically very complex in nature both technically and from a construction management perspective. These projects typically involve a large number of very specialized, highly skilled, and diverse role players. The skill set requirements for the resources (both manpower and equipment) make it very costly, and in many cases impossible, to accelerate or delay key tasks. The scheduling in this context focuses on achieving a near continuous work flow for key trades. This paper presents the study, from an owner's perspective, of schedule analysis for a highly repetitive industrial project. Due to highly specialized equipment needs, delays or unnecessary accelerations on this project results in huge added costs per day for the owner. The study uses a location based scheduling approach, the Flowline methodology, as a visualization tool to identify scheduling inefficiencies which cannot be identified using the existing CPM based schedule for the project. Although productivity data is considered an essential input for linear scheduling in general, this study demonstrates that the Flowline methodology can be used by an owner even without access to trade productivity data. The results can be used to strategically release work packages to avoid unnecessary added costs.
Identifying Scheduling Inefficiencies for Industrial Projects Using the Flowline View: A Case Study
Industrial construction projects are typically very complex in nature both technically and from a construction management perspective. These projects typically involve a large number of very specialized, highly skilled, and diverse role players. The skill set requirements for the resources (both manpower and equipment) make it very costly, and in many cases impossible, to accelerate or delay key tasks. The scheduling in this context focuses on achieving a near continuous work flow for key trades. This paper presents the study, from an owner's perspective, of schedule analysis for a highly repetitive industrial project. Due to highly specialized equipment needs, delays or unnecessary accelerations on this project results in huge added costs per day for the owner. The study uses a location based scheduling approach, the Flowline methodology, as a visualization tool to identify scheduling inefficiencies which cannot be identified using the existing CPM based schedule for the project. Although productivity data is considered an essential input for linear scheduling in general, this study demonstrates that the Flowline methodology can be used by an owner even without access to trade productivity data. The results can be used to strategically release work packages to avoid unnecessary added costs.
Identifying Scheduling Inefficiencies for Industrial Projects Using the Flowline View: A Case Study
Siddiqui, M. K. (author) / Rafiuddin, M. (author)
International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering ; 2012 ; Clearwater Beach, Florida, United States
2012-06-11
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Identifying Scheduling Inefficiencies for Industrial Projects Using the Flowline View: A Case Study
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