Project Cost Tracking
Project Cost Tracking Are you on top of your project spend? If you work for a large company, you may have to do monthly forecasting and accruals, and have a forecast accuracy metric that gets reported up. I did that for years. I feel your pain. I had a great spreadsheet I used for entering…
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Project Safety
This post is about 2 aspects of “project safety” – safety during the installation and safety of the finished project. Installation safetyYou’re probably on top of this, but here are a few highlights, whether it’s contractors or your own in-house folks: Equipment/Machine safetyHere I’m talking about the safety of the finished project.You really need your…
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Project Engineers – Q4 – Wrap It Up
I’ve been doing a “Plant Manager Walk” post on Fridays. Today is the first of a weekly post for Project Engineers. We’re now suddenly in Q4 – if you’re finishing an installation or upgrade, it’s time to wrap it up! I spent years installing and upgrading equipment in manufacturing plants. All those “fun” things that…
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Catch-Up Time!
Project Managers – do you have plans for the weekend. Wait! Are you planning to work Sunday morning to “catch up?” Again? Work instructions on the project you just wrapped up? Wordsmithing the capital request docs on the next project? (CER, AFE, etc.) Making a project schedule in Excel or MS Project? Doing that Operational…
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“It’s not the Same” or “Go see”
One rookie project manager mistake is deciding you don’t need to check something yourself. I started one project engineer job years ago and took over a project on a plastic compounding line. The folks before me had already ordered a screen changer and melt pump. “We ordered the same thing this other line has so…
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