Planning, Scheduling and Tracking of Industrial Project Using Primavera P6 Software

Proper planning and scheduling is very important part of construction projects for reducing and controlling delays of the project. Substantial amounts of time, money and resources are wasted each year in a construction industry due to improper management of construction activities. With globalization the construction projects have become vast and very complex. Planning of such projects requires huge amount of paperwork and time, which can be reduced with the help of project planning software. Providing good planning, proper organization, sufficient flow of resources to a project cannot automatically achieve the desired result. A warning mechanism must be present, which can alert the organization about its possible success and failures throughout the project. The main objectives of this study are to plan, schedule, and track an industrial project with the help of primavera P6 software and study the results generated. Also to recommend measures to the organization for enhancing their project planning skills for similar projects in future.