Innovative Integration Synchronizes Master
Schedule and Production Plan for Large Projects
BOSTON, July 24,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- MOCA Systems Inc. (MSI) has
announced important enhancements to Touchplan, the leading digital
production planning platform, enabling easy synchronization with
Oracle's project management and scheduling system, Primavera P6.
The powerful union of technologies eliminates the problem of
schedule drift, where the P6 master schedule in the back
office becomes out of sync with live workflow events in the field,
resulting in increased budget and schedule risks for large, complex
construction projects.
P6, based on the Critical Path Method (CPM), is time oriented.
It provides master planners with a broad, top-down project view,
identifying the longest path of dependent activities (critical
path) that determine the shortest possible project duration. The P6
contractual schedule is periodically updated to reflect the actual
sequencing and duration of workflow tasks in the production
plan.
Touchplan, based on the Last Planner System (LPS), is action
oriented. It provides production managers and executives with a
detailed, bottom-up project view, enabling worker collaboration,
commitment, and reliability through daily and weekly plan
iteration. The Touchplan production plan is updated as necessary to
reflect new and changed contractual requirements, supply chain
deliveries, and labor availability dictated by the master
schedule.
These systems have different jobs to do, but they work best when
they can work together to keep the jobsite workflow and the
contract schedule continuously synchronized. But the systems have
different logic, data formats and end-users, making automated
integration problematic. The latest enhancements to Touchplan
provide a novel solution to this problem.
"Some planning software vendors have attempted to automate data
and logic translation between the CPM system and LPS tools,
resulting in a dissatisfying loss of control and autonomy for the
users of both systems," said Brett
Adamczyk, MSI's software division chief, adding "by
contrast, with Touchplan we took a different,
human-in-the-loop approach to keep experienced
CPM and LPS experts in control of data selection and logic
translation, while eliminating the drudgery of manually
reformatting data and moving it between systems."
The new Touchplan features have been used successfully by a
panel of experienced P6 and Touchplan users who have
collaborated with the Touchplan engineering team to develop the
most effective way to unify the systems. With this process now
complete, the ability to easily synchronize Touchplan with P6 is
now available for all Touchplan users.
One of the inaugural users of the new capabilities is
Utah-based Jacobsen Construction,
a long-time P6 and Touchplan customer. According to Layne Hess, Corporate Director of Scheduling and
Planning, "Combining the systems in this way is a boon to our
planning productivity. It lets our experts spend more time managing
project complexity, and less time managing project data."
The new Touchplan features are available at no additional cost
to current and new Touchplan customers, and MSI's Touchplan
Customer Success team is ready to help them implement Touchplan- P6
synchronization to meet their individual needs.
For an in-depth case study of CPM-LPS synchronization with
Touchplan, please visit:
https://touchplan.io/case-study/constructing-utahs-tallest-building/.
About MOCA Systems, Inc.
MOCA Systems, Inc. (MSI) is a
leading service and software provider for the Architecture,
Engineering, and Construction industry. MSI delivers innovative
solutions to Owners, Engineers, Architects, and Contractors working
on some of the world's largest, most complex construction projects.
A profitable firm with offices across the U.S. and partners around
the globe, MSI's service and technology offerings ensure that
projects are delivered on time and on budget and fulfill all Owner
expectations. To learn more, visit mocasystems.com.
About Touchplan®
Touchplan is the premier software
offering of MOCA Systems, Inc. Used on the most projects, by the
most users, to optimize the largest construction volume, Touchplan
is the number one production planning and analytics platform. The
real-time, cloud-based solution enables the collaborative planning
essential for preventing schedule and budget slippage. It also
provides Owners and Contractors the instant insights they need to
track progress and anticipate problems on projects. To learn more,
visit touchplan.io.
Press Contact:
Kelsey Bixler
Director of Marketing
press@mocasystems.com
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