fuse customer perspectives webinar: epc
DESCRIPTION
A fast-track webinar featuring a panel of real users--KBR, CH2M Hill, Fluor and The Shaw Group--explaining how they are currently using Acumen Fuse® for advanced schedule analysis and execution performance insight.TRANSCRIPT
//Fuse Customer PerspectivesEPC Contractors
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14 Mar 12 // Slide: 2
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Does Fuse integrate with P6?
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14 Mar 12 // Slide: 3
Overview & Objectives
◦ High Fuse adoption rate since product inception◦ Proven value in:
◦ EPC/owner partnerships◦ Bidding competiveness◦ General insight & best practice maturity
improvement◦ Webinar highlights four specific use cases ◦ Firsthand customer perspective!
◦ Four user stories◦ Fuse 3.1 briefing◦ Q&A (submit Q’s through Questions box)
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14 Mar 12 // Slide: 4
Acumen
◦ Project Management Software
Company
◦ Insight into challenges & use of
analytics to overcome them
◦ Core Concepts:
1. Project success requires a sound
plan
2. Forecast accuracy requires risk
consideration
Proven Project Analytics
Product Offerings
Risk Workshops
Acumen Fuse®
Software Training
Realistic Scheduling
Critiqued
The Base
Risk-Adjusted
Optimized
Team-Aligned
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14 Mar 12 // Slide: 5
Acumen Fuse Platform
◦ Fuse: analytics platform
◦ Improves schedule quality
◦ Insight into performance
◦ Fuse 360: goal-based acceleration
◦ Schedule Acceleration
◦ Decision-support
Enterprise Project Analysis Metric
Analyzer
Logic Analyzer
Forensic Analyzer
Schedule Cleanser
Schedule Accelerator
//Duane Compton, CH2M HILLProject Controls Manager
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14 Mar 12 // Slide: 7
Fuse Forensic Analyzer & Fuse Index™
◦ Ensuring data integrity during file conversion◦ MS Project Primavera
◦ Identify missing or changed fields
◦ Using the Fuse Index™ to prioritize improvements and score planning quality
CH2M HILL
// Joe Moore, FluorChief Planner
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14 Mar 12 // Slide: 9
Schedule Quality Improvement
◦ Custom Fluor metrics to identify areas of concern
◦ Generating reports for schedule improvement
◦ Correcting found problems
Fluor
//Gabriel Saenz, The Shaw Group
Global Chief of Scheduling
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14 Mar 12 // Slide: 11
Time Savings
◦ Custom reports
◦ Insight into planning quality not
provided by previous solutions
◦ Reports created in minutes
◦ Previously took 2-3 days
The Shaw Group
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ORIGINAL DURATION SUMMATION
AVERAGE DURATION
NUMBER OF ACTIVITIES WITH HIGH DURATION
NUMBER OF ACTITIVITIES PER MONTH
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Utilities (U)
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UTILITIES EAST WEST
PERCENT OF ACTIVITIES WITH HIGH FLOAT
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Common (C)
0 to 20 Days Float
20 to 30 days float
More than 30 days float
//Bradley Ingle, The Shaw Group
Functional Planning and Scheduling
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14 Mar 12 // Slide: 20
Schedule Adherence
◦ Custom Shaw Group metrics ◦ Assess adherence of schedule to Shaw
requirements
◦ Monthly and weekly assessments and
reporting
◦ Slicing data by time segment and
activity grouping for targeted
analysis and insight
◦ Massive data sets
The Shaw Group
// Jerry Vogt, KBRPrincipal Planner
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14 Mar 12 // Slide: 22
Company Standard
◦ Implementing company-wide standard scheduling best practices
◦ Assessing schedules against these standards
◦ Editing metric thresholds and tripwires
◦ Creating custom views for analysis & insight
KBR
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CPMi Float & Constraint
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CPMi Logic
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CPMi Resources and Misc.
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Acumen Fuse® 3.1 Briefing
◦ Schedule Quality Index: the true
standard of standards!
◦ Acumen Cloud™: benchmarking
◦ Schedule Cleanser™: intelligent schedule
improvement
◦ Calendar forensics: interrogation of
calendar definition
◦ Enhanced P6 integration: XML & inter-
project data
Case Study
//Q&A
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