Course Details

LIST OF COURSES (PRIMAVERA -P6)

1. Basics of Construction Management – C1002

Summary

Proactively manage the  construction projects to deliver withing the desired objectives of safely,quality,time and budget.Construction Management has been evolved from 1960’s through the complex demanding requirements.Construction manager provide ownership with specialized knowledge,experience and resource to navigate through complexities of the process.

Upon completion, participants will be able to,

  • Understand the principles of construction management
  • Master the procurement approaches and payment methods
  • Attain destructibility check
  • Identify the preparation of cost plan and contingencies
  • Learn tending, pre-qualification, tender review and negotiations
  • Discover Change management
  • Acquire scheduling and project control (baseline,WBS,updates, early warning notices)
  • Obtain Risk management (Identification,assessment and mitigation) and risk register.

Who can benefit by learning this course,

B-Tech/M-Tech Engineering  graduates to find placements

Diploma Holders/ITI students to find placements

Working professional Engineers to for better career enhancements

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Diploma in Engineering with basic computer skills.

Introduction

  1. Why each construction project is unique
  2. What are the objectives of the project to determine its success
  3. What is the requirement of construction management
  4. Project team
  5. Owner’s role in initiating the project delivery process.

Construction manager

  1. Role of Construction Manager and required qualifications
  2. How doe the owner source Construction Management service
  3. Payment methods for Construction Management service
  4. CM as n owner’s agent or as a contractor assuming risk
  5. Various Construction management functions are
    • Estimating the project
    • Administering the contract
    • Managing construction operations
    • Planning & Scheduling
    • Monitoring project performance
    • Managing project quality
    • Ensuring project safety
    • Assessing and mitigating project risks.

Contracting & Project Delivery Systems

  1. Standard contracting formats
  2. Project Delivery methods
  3. Choosing best delivery method for the project
  4. Documentations involved in a contract.

Estimating Project Cost

  1. Methods of estimation in construction project
  2. Factors influencing cost
  3. Components of cost estimate
  4. Cost estimation methods
  5. Estimation techniques
  6. Quality checks of an estimate

Contract Administration

  1. Responsibility Matrix
  2. Mobilization & Site logistics
  3. Schedule/Program issues
    • Notice to proceed
    • Baseline program,critical path
    • Updation of progress
    • Dealing with Delays
  4. Payment issues
    • Payment application
    • Solutions for delayed payments
    • Cash flow forecast,S-Curves and budget revisions
    • Final Payments
  5. Change management /Additional work
    • Owner’s right to changes
    • Authority to issue instructions
    • Change order pricing
  6. Completion procedures
    • Substantial completion
    • obligation to takeover
    • latent defects.

Monitoring project performance

  1. Factors affecting project performance
  2. How project costs are tracked & reported
  3. How project schedule is measures
  4. How corrections and modifications can be implemented
  5. How project performance is documented

Managing Quality & Safety

  1. Elements of quality management plan
  2. How to define construction quality
  3. Difference between Quality Assurance and Quality Control
  4. Elements of a safety management plan

Managing Project Risks

  1. Types of risks associated with construction project
  2. Consequence associated with project risks
  3. How risks are evaluated and analysed
  4. How risks are mitigated and controlled
  5. How risk mitigation plan is developed

 

2. Project Management in Primavera P6 – C1002

Summary

Primavera Project Management  provides training through entire project life cycle from planning to execution. Course include adding activities, assigning resources and creating baseline. Participants will get a  background in the concept of planning and scheduling. The Iron triangle of Project management schedule, cost and quality shall be stressed.

Upon completion, participants will be able to,

  • Create and modify a project
  • Group activities according to the specific criteria
  • Assign labor, non-labor and material resources to the activities.
  • Optimize a project plan
  • Display & Modify bars on a Gantt chart.
  • Create & launch Project Website.

Who can benefit by learning this course,

B-Tech/M-Tech Engineering  graduates to find placements

Diploma Holders/ITI students to find placements

Working professional Engineers to for better career enhancements

Project Managers to mastering their skills

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Diploma in Engineering with basic computer skills.

Course Objectives

  • Create projects
  • Create Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)
  • Create Relationships
  • Assign Constraints
  • Maintain the Project Document Library
  • Format schedule data
  • Assign Roles, Resources and Costs
  • Analyze Resources
  • Optimize & Baseline a Project Plan
  • Manage Reports
  • Create & Launch a Project Website

Course Topics

  • Describe Enterprise and project specific data
  • Log In
  • Open an existing project
  • Navigate in Home window and activities window
  • Open an Existing layout
  • Customize a layout
  • Save a layout

Enterprise Project Structure

  • Describe the components that comprise the Enterprise Project Structure
  • View the EPS

Create a Project

  • Create a Project
  • Navigate in the Projects Window
  • View and modify information in Project Details

Create Work Breakdown Structure

  • Define a Work Breakdown Structure
  • Create multiple levels of a WBS hierarchy

Adding Activities

  • Describe an activity and its components
  • Describe activity types
  • Add activities
  • Add a notebook topic to an activity
  • Add steps to an activity
  • Assign activity codes to activities

Creating relationships

  • View a Network logic diagram
  • Four types of activity relationships
  • Create activity relationships in activity network
  • Create activity relationship in activity details

Scheduling

  • Perform a forward and backward pass
  • Describe float and its impact on schedules
  • Identify loops and open ends
  • Calculate a schedule
  • Analyze the scheduling log report

Assign Constraints

  • Apply an Overall deadline to a project
  • Apply a constraint to an individual activity
  • Add notebook topics to constrained activities
  • Describe the available constraint types

Maintaining the Project documents Library

  • Describe the difference between a work product and a reference document to a specific criteria
  • Create a document record
  • Link the document record to a project document or work product
  • Assign the project document to an activity or WBS

Formatting Schedule Date

  • Group activities according to specific criteria
  • Sort activities
  • Apply a filter
  • Create a filter

Roles & resources

  • Describe Roles
  • View the Roles Dictionary
  • Describe Resources
  • Identify difference between labour, non-labour and materials resources
  • View the Resource Dictionary

Assign Roles

  • Assign roles to an activity
  • Assign rates on roles

Assigning Resources and Costs

  • Assign resources by roles
  • Assign labor, non-labor, and material resources to activities
  • Adjust Budgeted units/Time for a resource
  • Assign expense to activities

Analyzing Resources

  • Display Resource usage profile
  • Format Resource profile
  • Format timescale

Optimize the project plan

  • Analyze Schedule dates
  • Shorten a project schedule
  • Analyze resource availability
  • Remove resource over allocation
  • Analyze project costs

Baselining the project plan

  • Create a baseline
  • Display baseline bars on Gantt Chart
  • Modify bars on the Gantt Chart

Project Execution and Control

  • Describe several methods for updating the project schedule
  • Use progress spotlight
  • Status Activities
  • Reschedule the project

Reporting Performance

  • Describe reporting methods
  • Run a schedule report
  • Create a resource report with the Report Wizard
  • Create a report using the current layout

Project Website

  • Create and launch a project website
  • Customize the appearance of a project website
  • Publish activity layouts and HTML pages

3. Advanced Project Management in Primavera P6 – C1003

Summary

Advanced Project Management in Primavera is designed to get the advance knowledge to execute the project management.

Upon completion, participants will be able to,

  • Updating a baselines project.
  • Adding and maintaining user defined field
  • Create a comparison report in claim digger
  • Uses of multiple float path and its generation
  • Generate a new project using project Architect.

Who can benefit by learning this course,

B-Tech/M-Tech Engineering  graduates to find placements

Diploma Holders/ITI students to find placements

Working professional Engineers to for better career enhancements

Project Managers to mastering their skills

Minimum Qualifications

Basic Course in Project Management using Primavera completed.

Course Objectives

Codes Applications & Assignment

  • Apply project codes to activities
  • Apply resource code to resources
  • Apply activity code values to activities

    Advanced Method of  Scheduling

  • Uses of multiple float paths while scheduling
  • How to generate multiple float paths while scheduling
  • Schedule Logic differences.
  • Effect of calendar on an applied lag

    Project  Import & Export

  • Process of importing and exporting
  • Project Import
  • Project Export

    Project creating with Project Architect

  • Create project with usage of Project Architect
  • Customize the generated project plan

   User Defined Fields and Global Change

  • Create User Defined fields
  • Define Global Change criteria
  • How to perform a global change run

   Portfolios

  • How to create a portfolio
  • Adding projects to a portfolio
  • Open created projects using portfolios

  Monitor Thresholds and Issues

  • Difference between thresholds and issues
  • Create a threshold and an issue

   Data transfer between Primavera and Microsoft Excel

  • Data Export to spreadsheet application
  • Modifying project information in the Excel spreadsheet
  • Import project information from the Excel spreadsheet

  Updating Baseline

  • Specify the activities to update in the baseline
  • Update activity and resource assignment data

  Claim Digger

  • How Claim Digger compares project plans
  • Create a comparison report in Claim Digger

  Duration Types

  • How to decide which Duration type is suitable for a particular situation
  • How to assign a Duration Type to an activity

  Calculating Percent Complete

  • Three Percent Complete types
  • Method to choose Percent Complete type to use based on corporate standards of progress reporting.
  • Describing how activity percentages are calculated based on selected percent Complete in an activity
  • Usage of weighted steps to calculate Percent Completion.

  Earned Value Analysis

  • Details about Earned Value
  • Describe Performance Percent Complete
  • Parctical Application of Earned Value in a project.
  • Benefits of using earned value techniques

  Activity Usage Profile and Spreadsheet

  • How to show cost data in the Activity Usage Profile
  • How to show curves in the Activity Usage Profile
  • How to analyze earned value data using curves in the Activity Usage Profile

  Tracking Layouts

  • Identify the four types of tracking layouts
  • Navigate in a tracking layout
  • Open a tracking layout
  • Modify layouts
  • Create new layouts

Top Down Budgeting

  • Plan project budgets
  • Plan spending plans
  • Track budget changes
  • Track and Analyze budgets
  • Establish funding sources

  Top Down Estimating

  • Details on top down estimating
  • Add estimation weights to activities and WBS elements
  • Perform top down estimating

  Risk Documentation

  • Set up risk types
  • Create a risk
  • Calculate a risk’s exposure values
  • Analyze the impact of a risk

Auto Compute Actuals

  • Describe the business rules for auto compute actuals
  • Auto compute an activity
  • Analyze the effect of auto compute actuals on an activity
  • Auto compute a resource
  • Auto compute an expense

 4. Project Management for Contractor with  Primavera  P6 – C1004

Summary

This course gives information for contractors to plan,schedule,control and analyze projects.

Upon completion, participants will be able to,

  • Create project, add activities and relationships.
  • Perform manual schedule calculation
  • Apply constraints to an activity
  • Organize a project using activity codes
  • Import and export project data
  • Create custom layouts

Who can benefit by learning this course,

B-Tech/M-Tech Engineering  graduates to find placements

Diploma Holders/ITI students to find placements

Working professional Engineers to for better career enhancements

Project Managers to mastering their skills

Minimum Qualifications

Basic Course in Project Management using Primavera completed.

Course Objectives

Introduction 

  Navigation

Create project with WBS

Activity Creation

Activity Relationships

   Project Scheduling

  Assign Constraints

 Baselining the project

Customize Project

5. Shutdown Planning Management  with  Primavera  P6 – C1004

Summary

This Shutdown maintenance planning, scheduling and control training will provide the right tools to manage the facilities as per the latest theories,research and modern knowledge base with industry best practices.

Upon completion, participants will be able to,

  • Understand the aspects of shutdown planning and control
  • Create shutdown plans using Primavera
  • Create Manning levels to meet the plans
  • Updating and controlling the plans.

Who can benefit by learning this course,

B-Tech/M-Tech Engineering  graduates to find placements

Diploma Holders/ITI students to find placements

Working professional Engineers to for better career enhancements

Project Managers to mastering their skills

Minimum Qualifications

Basic Course in Project Management using Primavera completed.

Introduction

  1. Evolution of maintenance in the industrial era.
  2. Maintenance terms used
  3. Type of maintenance based on response & effect
  4. implication of “Reactive Maintenance” working environment

Work Package preparation

  1. Reasons for equipment failure
  2. Modes of failure study
  3. Prioritization of works and its importance
  4. Root Cause Analysis and its usefulness in a maintenance organization
  5. FMEA(Failure Modes and Effects Analysis ) methodology.
  6. Cause & effect Diagram/Ishikawa Diagram  and brainstorming
  7. FTA(Fault tree analysis) to find root cause logically.

KPIs and continues improvement

  1. Importance of measurements in projects
  2. Various KPIs based on requirements
  3. Dashboards creation and maintenance
  4. SMRP(Society of Maintenance  & reliability professionals) defined KPIs.

Basic Tools for Maintenance Program success

  1. Technical report writing.What is not documented is not addressed.
  2. Concept of outsourcing a maintenance task
  3. Data Analysis: Data to get info.(Filtering,sorting)
  4. Data Analysis:Knowledge base (Using information build knowledge)
  5. Data Analysis:Basics of statistical analysis in maintenance.

Maintenance Management System

  1. Basics of Maintenance Management
  2. RCM-reliability Centered Maintenance Basic concepts and application
  3. TPS-Total Productive Maintenance Basic concepts and application
  4. Visual management & 5S-basis for effectiveness,efficiency and success.
  5. OEE-Overall Equipment Effectiveness application
  6. Risk management and its application for work prioritization
  7. CMMS-(Computerized Maintenance Management system) basic knowledge and application
  8. Choosing correct CMMS for your application.

Maintenence Planning

  1. Identify and measure workload and concepts of resource allocation
  2. Control overtime and absenteeism
  3. Authorization of works,tools and accessibility
  4. Essentials of a planner in maintenance
  5. Inputs and outputs
  6. Creating and maintaining the plan based on time periods such as Annual, monthly, weekly, daily and in shifts.
  7. Managing Work Order Management System.

Maintenance Scheduling

  1. Difference between Planning and scheduling
  2. Scheduling principles(Tasks,tools & equipment,work environment)
  3. Authorization of working environment
  4. Scheduling techniques based on specific parameters(criticality,cost,urgency,internal  client requirements, resource limitations etc)
  5. Periodic Maintenance Scheduling (Daily/weekly etc.)
  6. Skills and duties of a scheduler
  7. Scheduling methods in T&I(Turnaround & Inspection) shutdowns
  8. Maintenance schedule compliance
  9. How backlog is generated and how to minimize it
  10. Best methods to do backlog management

  Continuous Improvement in Maintenance Management

  1. Lessons learnt utilization for planning & scheduling
  2. Lean manufacturing methodology-to control losses in a system
  3. 6 Sigma methodology
  4. Lean Six Sigma and its application in manufacturing maintenance.

Cost of Maintenance

  1. Cost elements in owning and operating machinery and production lines
  2. Life Cycle Costing(LCC) and Total cost of ownership(TCO)
  3. Managing spare parts through effective ABC stock analysis process.

 

     LIST OF COURSES (MICROSOFT PROJECT)

         1. Basics of Construction Planning & Scheduling- C1006

         2. Project Management using  MS Project – C1007

    LIST OF COURSES (MICROSOFT EXCEL)

         1. Basics of Project Control – C1008

         2. Effective Project Progress Monitoring & Control – C1009

         3. Effective Project Reporting – C1010