How to Get Resource Loading

Histogram/S Curve in Primavera P6

The resource histogram allows us to use projected and historical
actualized data to trend resource quantities, resource hours and
cost in future. It also allows us to determine the potential risks of
excessive supply of resources or lack of resource requirement.
This tutorial demonstrates how resources allocation chart
(histogram/S curve) is produced in Primavera P6. Assume that
you have done Assigned activities and Sequenced activities to
see resource loading histogram/S curve bar chart in Primavera P6.
After
assigning
and
sequencing
of
activities,
(1)
(2)
(3)

Allocate
overall
resource
and
their
rated
cost
Assign resources in activity detail section and
View
resource
loading
histogram/S
curve.

1) How to allocate overall resources and

cost?
a) Go to Enterprise > Resource >
Note: When you are at Resource, you will see the filter name
Current Project Resources If you have already opened a
resource loaded project. See figure below

A blank project resource dictionary only will be displayed if no resource has

been added to current project. See below image.

b) Add New Resource (Note : If the existing resources are not

applicable for a specific project or no resource has been assigned

to current project.You can skip this step if the required resources

are available in resource dictionary.)
When you try to add new resource, you will get the message like
In order to add resource, the filter will be changed to
display all resources and you will see all resources for all the
projects. New Resource Wizard will be prompted, and follow the
wizard. You will be asked to enter the following,

Resource ID,

Resource Name,

Allocate Resource Type (Labor, Non labor and material),

Rate (Price/Unit), Default Units/Time and Max Units/Time,

Contact address if applicable

Resource roles which describes their skills

Resource Calendar

Select Auto- compute if you want actual units are updated by

Primavera or select Do not auto-compute actual if you can update
manually for actual man hours spent.
Timesheets set up and log in
After entering of all data, you will notice that the newly added
resources are not in the desired location. Therefore, allocate those
resources according to their resource level. For example, Pipe
fitter, Rigger/Signaler, General worker, Fire watches man,
Workshop labor, Painter, etc are allocated under construction
department of Petrochemical Projects. See figure below.

2) How to assign resources in activity detail

section?
Go to Activities page > Select the activity > Go to Resource tab
which is next to Relationships tab > Add Resource which is
located near the bottom of activity detail box > Select required
resource and assign it. You may also assign resource details such ;
resource curve, budgeted units and actual units.

3) How to view and print resource histogram

and S curve?

(a) Go to Activities page > Select Resource usage profile, and

then you will see Current Projects Resources Column on the
left and histogram and bar chart on the right side of the layout.
The individual loading chart, for instance, welders resource
profile is shown in the following figure.

Remember that you are not able to view both materials and labor
or non labor histogram bar chart at the same time as they do not
have the same unit of measure. You will be able to view material
resource curve, both labor and non labor curve , labor or non
labor curve each time individually.

b) You can customize the appearance of bar chart by the

Resource Usage Profile Options. Right Click on the bar chart
area to find Resource Usage Profile Options. You can select
By date to see interval data (Histogram Chart) and select
Cumulative (S Curve) to see total manpower unit in the following
check box below.

c) The following check box is used when you want to show

manpower resource profile instead of man hour unit. P6 will
calculate total men per period (interval) based on working hrs per
period (interval) and total man hours per period. For example,
total men per week would be 10 when total man hours for a week
are 400 and 40 working hrs per week.

d)

And then, select all resources in resource column to view

overall man power allocation. To print the bar chart, Go to print
preview > page set up > Options > Select Profile and unselect
Activity Table, All columns, Grid lines and Gantt chart. Set the
time scale start from PS-Earliest Project Start to PF-Latest
Project Finish. Finally you will see the bar chart as below.

e) According to above bar chart, the weekly interval manpower is shown on

the left side and total manpower allocation is on the right side.
f) One of the reason for viewing resource histogram is to identify
overallocated resources against the available resources. To view any
overallocated resources in your project, go to Data tag on "Resource
Usage Profile Options" window, then select Show Limit and Show
Overallocation. Any resource unit above the limit line (black line) is over
allocated. Normally, overallocated resource is shown in red bar. see below
snapshots.

How to view "Stacked Histogram?

You can also see Stacked Histogram for this manpower
allocation. Right Click on the bar chart area to find Stacked
Histogram. Firstly, click on "Stacked Histogram" tag, and then
you can go to "Resource Usage Profile Options" to get screen
shot in step-g. See figure below.

Go to Resource Profile options > Assign Resource Filter/Group

Name > Select Total cumulative curve as shown in Figure
below.

Finally, you will get Stacked Histogram as shown in below. The

stacked histogram represents the manpower allocation by
individual trade/discipline for a particular period as well as total
manpower allocation (total manpower = 200 men, see the
following figure) for all time . It can be printed the same way done
on item 3, d.

When Stacked histogram is viewed, one thing to take note is

"Overallocated Resource" can't be identified on that view. Switch back to
normal histogram by deselecting "Stacked Histogram" so as to analyse
overallocated resources.

Are you working on multiple projects environment ?

Go to "Open" select all projects that you wish to view resource
profile by pressing and holding control key if you are handling
multiple projects.
There are the related posts (1) Tutorial-How to generate S
curve/histogram from Primavera, P6 which describes how the
progress (histogram curve/S curve) are produced using P6 export
excel data (2) Creating discipline wise manpower histogram using
Primavera P6 export data .

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54 comments:
1.

AzharMarch 14, 2011 at 12:22 AM

THE SOLUTION MENTIONED ABOVE IS FOR WHAT VERSION OF
PRIMAVERA AS MINE SHOWS THE SAME SCREEN SHOTS AS
MENTION ABOVE BUT DIAGRAMS SHOWS IN F STEP IS DIFFEENT
FROM WHAT I GET EVEN THOUGH I FOLLOW THE SAME STEPS.
WHEN I CLICK/CHECK STACKED HISTGRAM ALL THE BARS WITH S
CURVE JUST GO AWAY AND NOTHING ON THE SCREE.I click resource
usage profile options and screen i get is same as in steps b,& c , but the one
shown in step g is not available in my P6 , I DON' SEE Assign Resource
Filter/Group
Name
>
Select
Total
cumulative
i
have
attached
screen
shot
what
i
get.
PLEASE HELP ME OUT TO LEARN THIS STACKED GRAPHS
Reply
Replies
1.

AnonymousApril 4, 2012 at 4:27 PM

Azhar, if you don't see the Total Cumulative curve, your
resources are material. you need change their type to NonLabour
or
Labour
resource.
Amireh
Reply
2.
Min OoMarch 14, 2011 at 10:08 PM
@Azhar
Dear

Azhar,

This is based on P6.0. I think you probably couldnt find Stacked Histogram
and Resource Usage Profile Options tag as shown in step-f. (I have added
the
new
screen
shot
for
better
understanding).
If you can follow step-f, step-g can be done easily to assign Resource
Filter/Group Name which will bring you to produce the S curve/Stacked
histogram.
Stacked Histogram and S cuve would be produced if you select Total