Real World Outage Planning - (3 mb) Powerpoint presentation outlining the basic concepts to plan maintenance outages better - this is the paper I presented at the Primavera conference Oct. 2002.

Set-up Sheet - (99 kb) Excel spreadsheet containing formulas that help create smart ID numbers, activity codes, and resource loading.

Sample Schedule Spec - (67 kb) not perfect but the latest version of an ongoing effort to write the perfect P3 Schedule spec. 

Outage Planning - (16 mb) presentation I made to Lone Star Industries in Indianapolis on 25 April 2002.  Basic outage planning presentation for the first timer.

Scheduling Fundamentals - (5 mb) This is an eight hour presentation / seminar I made to BE&K's project controls group in Birmingham on 12-Nov-2002 which was aimed at refocusing the groups scheduling efforts by going back to the basics of good scheduling.

Schedule Trend - (402 kb) Excel spreadsheet chart example from the Runway 15R project.  Also contains some calendar to ordinal date issues.  Good tool to keep an owner apprised of the contractor's gradually slipping end date.

Outage Metrics - () Excel spreadsheet with lots of charts that Hubert and I developed for the Charlevoix outage.  Good examples of progress reporting.

Activity List Spreadsheet  - just testing an Excel Spreadsheet

Mike's Appointment Calendar (excel spreadsheet) tells you where I am, or at least plan to be.

Plant Maintenance Outage / Turnaround Examples (note these examples are a mixed bag from two plants)

• Work Order to Schedule Procedure

• Example Layouts

  • Bar Chart by System / Foreman

  • Bar Chart by System / Equipment

  • By Individual Foreman

  • Resource Curves

• Example Excel Sheets

  • Mainsaver (work order sytem) data dump

  • Mainsaver (work order) to Set-up sheet

  • Import Mainsaver data to useable .wk1l

• Backup file of Maryneal scheule

• Backup file of Pryor schedule

ENR Article - "State of CPM Scheduling"

more to come...