Overall schedule

These timeframes are guesstimates at this point, and are subject to change. Similarly, at each stage of the process there will be a number of activities that may affect overall scheduling. On completion of this process, we are confident that Company X will be well on its way toward achieving its goal of industry leadership in process safety management. 

Review shop fabrication schedules and observe progress of work in the shops and receipt of outside purchased equipment. Evaluate and determine if the shop scheduled versus actual work performance by the manufacturer is meeting the overall schedule. 

Look Ahead Reports. Each subcontractor must submit every week a list of activities planned for the next two weeks with projected staffing. The Construction Manager must compare this information with the overall schedules to gauge subcontractors performance and promote corrective action if necessary. 

In some batch plants, several trains of identical equipment are operated in a sequence that allows some degree of heat recovery or enables downstream equipment to operate continuously. In this type of plant the time allowed for each operation in the sequence is optimized so that an overall schedule for the plant can be developed. Scheduling of batch processes is described in Biegler et al. (1997). 

An overall schedule of the project is shown in Fig. 5. The total project took five years to engineer, procure and construct. This does not include the time required to develop the MTG process by Mobil Corporation, or the feasibility studies performed by the New Zealand Government. 

The administration/management of a lump sum general contract is also limited due to the completion of the design prior to the start of the construction activities. This project approach will take the most overall schedule time, but the final cost is easily predictable and known with great accuracy prior to the start of construction. The delivery of long lead equipment and fabricated materials such as structural steel will often not support the overall project schedule. There will be times in the construction schedule when the project is waiting for materials and equipment to be delivered. In the construction of most API facilities, schedule is an important driver of a project. The lump sum general contract approach will not normally satisfy the schedule requirements of the project. 

The overall schedule for both options was evaluated using the same advance rates for ramps and raise excavations. The total duration from project initiation to the commissioning of the system was 103 weeks for the conveyor option and 129 weeks for the hoisting option. In both cases, as would be expected for an underground project, the longest portion of the project was the construction phase but there were other factors that led to the duration difference. Figure 6... 

Up to and including cold commissioning, and possibly wet commissioning, the activities are mainly those of discipline or equipment specialists, whereas the sequence and execution of hot commissioning is a process activity which is usually part of the process technology. As such, the work may be the responsibility of a technology provider, which is a separate entity from the rest of the project team. Any such split should not be allowed to result in separation of planning activities, unless the overall schedule duration is unimportant. 

A five year total project schedule (owner s commitment to commercial operation) and a three year construction schedule for replicate units. First unit would have a six year overall schedule. 

In the "Guidebook on Nuclear Power Introduction, TRS-217", the IAEA has published a model schedule for all activities involved in planning, launching and implementing executing a nuclear power plant project. This schedule is given in Fig. 3.4.-1 The time periods given must, of course, be considered as indicative only and will vary from one project to another, but the activities are essential and have to fit into an overall schedule. In Fig. 3.4.-1 the schedule has been divided into four major parts... 

Generally, the efficient allocation of resources to tasks involves a certain objective, for example, to minimize the production make span (time required to finish all tasks), to maximize the plant throughput, to maximize profit, or to minimize costs. The allocation of resources to tasks is usually limited by the availability of the resources. For example, a reactor can only produce one product at the time. Overall, scheduling decisions may include the allocation of resources to tasks, the sequencing of tasks allocated to the same resource, and the overall timing [1]. 

The critical path item is the acquisition of tin nearly 9 m of CsI(Tl). There is adequate worldwide capacity to meet our schedule, but design decisions on tin ( lectromagnetic calorimeter will j)ace the overall schedule. 

Identifying and selecting the right people to serve on the team ensures that the resources for the improvement project are effeaively used. The team will need to allocate time, determine the budget and materials needed. It will set reporting requirements and the overall schedule.This step establishes the team s level of authority over process changes and is formalized in a written charter. 

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