Conversion of Equipment Hours to Manhours
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Kier LegardMember for 20 years 2 months
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Hi to All,
Is there any standard practice to convert equipment hrs to manhours.We have a project where we are requested to load the schedule with manhours. What should be the proper way of loading activities in manhours which requires extensive equipment but only use few manhours.Do I have to convert the equipmenthours to manhours in terms of cost?
Regards,
kier
Is there any standard practice to convert equipment hrs to manhours.We have a project where we are requested to load the schedule with manhours. What should be the proper way of loading activities in manhours which requires extensive equipment but only use few manhours.Do I have to convert the equipmenthours to manhours in terms of cost?
Regards,
kier
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Oldest first- 0James Barnes ·Kier
the standard practice afaik is to assign a resource, for example "crane" and then apply it separately to the activities where it is required. Thus you may have the activity "hoist materials to roof" which requires 3H for Labourers, 1H for a rigger to fix the load and 2H for the crane to standby while the load is being fixed then perform the hoist. Each of these resources can be assigned a cost per hour, which will effectively weight them for earned value purposes.
Thus, you don’t convert equipment hours to Manhours as such, but instead you convert all types of hours to money or, as you say, in terms of cost.
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