Global Business Environment
for desalination and water treatment projects

9. Scheduling

GBE project manager is the most important component in the project managing hierarchy incorporating outstanding issue tracking, revision and approval tracking and the project progress and change alerts. Unlike MS Project Manager or PSNext, GBE auto-generates the project schedule together with the work loads and allocated resources according to the project preferences, P&ID and wiring layout. Another big step forward is generic resource optimization for the project fixed time frame - crucial point never done in practice. GBE introduces activity interdependencies validation, standard deliveries library and versatile mechanism for delivery scope definition. To automate naming resources, GBE tracks the user activities across the projects and auto-creates the User Resume.
GBE auto-generates the networked schedule from templates like "Turn-key project" template or "Docs & order project" one. These templates may be modified - unnecessary work packages can be easily removed from the project. Templates automatically incorporate optimal path patterns – activity sequences reflecting best practices adopted in the project execution. For example, equipment layering (EL) pattern defines the order of the equipment sizing – heavy equipment with the longest delivery times should be sized first. So instead of go-with-stream sizing of all items on the PID diagram and moving to the next one, only heavy equipment shall be sized on all P&ID diagrams. Then less heavy layer shall be sized and so on.
More information about scheduling framework is given in the author’s paper "Project scheduling: out of stall".