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Histogram in Primavera p6
Histogram 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.
(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:
3-1) Go to Activities page > Select Resource usage profile, and then you will see
“Current Project’s Resources” Column on the left and histogram and bar chart on the
right side of the layout. The individual loading chart, for instance, welder’s 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.
3-3) 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 hours 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
hours per week.
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 to finish. Finally
you will see the bar chart as below.
3-6) one of the reason for viewing resource histogram is to identify over allocated
resources against the available resources. To view any over allocated resources in your
project:
Go to Data tag on "Resource Usage Profile Options" window, then select Show Limit and
Show Over allocation. Any resource unit above the limit line (black line) is over allocated.
Normally, over allocated resource is shown in red bar.
See below snapshots.
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Go to Resource Profile options > Assign Resource Filter/Group Name > Select Total
cumulative curve as shown in Figure below.
When stacked histogram is viewed, one thing to take note is "Over allocated Resource"
can't be identified on that view. Switch back to normal histogram by deselecting "Stacked
Histogram" so as to analyses over allocated resources.