Critcho
Electrical
- Jul 11, 2006
- 1
I am a newbie to MS Project, I plan to use it to help me with a major project I am working on a the moment. This project involves building, installing and testing electrical panels, each panel gets installed at a different site.
I want to know if I can define each site as an entity, so I can look at just the one site and see all activities scheduled for it etc. I was thinking of putting each site as a resource, but I want to be able to see the resources allocated to each site and when they are there etc. Each site would also get a unique name for tracking and a priority for schedulding. I will not always work exactly to the priority schedule, as I will try to have the guys working in the same geographical area each day.
E.g. of actions for each site:
Panel gets Designed by engineer (resource: Engineer)
Panel gets approved by customer
Panel gets manufactured in factory (resource: build team 1 or 2)
Panel gets installed (resource: install team 1 or 2 + electrical team 1 or 2)
Panel gets tested (resouce: project manager)
After each resource is finished with that site, they move on to the next site, there will be a lot of pipelining happening. (e.g. while project manager is tesing site 1, install team is installing site 3, factory is manufacturing site 5 and engineer is designing site 7, sites 2, 4, 6, and 8 are also in a parallel pipeline.)
Is there another dimension to project that will allow this? I would like to be able to do a report per site to show how long each one took, when it is scheduled to be online etc.
Thanks for your help!!
Cheers,
Scotty.
I want to know if I can define each site as an entity, so I can look at just the one site and see all activities scheduled for it etc. I was thinking of putting each site as a resource, but I want to be able to see the resources allocated to each site and when they are there etc. Each site would also get a unique name for tracking and a priority for schedulding. I will not always work exactly to the priority schedule, as I will try to have the guys working in the same geographical area each day.
E.g. of actions for each site:
Panel gets Designed by engineer (resource: Engineer)
Panel gets approved by customer
Panel gets manufactured in factory (resource: build team 1 or 2)
Panel gets installed (resource: install team 1 or 2 + electrical team 1 or 2)
Panel gets tested (resouce: project manager)
After each resource is finished with that site, they move on to the next site, there will be a lot of pipelining happening. (e.g. while project manager is tesing site 1, install team is installing site 3, factory is manufacturing site 5 and engineer is designing site 7, sites 2, 4, 6, and 8 are also in a parallel pipeline.)
Is there another dimension to project that will allow this? I would like to be able to do a report per site to show how long each one took, when it is scheduled to be online etc.
Thanks for your help!!
Cheers,
Scotty.