The process to build a schedule with Cubix360 is very easy and intuitive, no need to know the 3D WBS method. You just have to follow the steps proposed by the software:
- First you create the Referential: PBS, ABS and ZBS;
- Then the structuration of the project: you deploy Activities on Products and you assign Product into Zones;
- Then you do the relashionships: of type Zone, Product and Activity;
- Then you define the durations: Generic duration weighted by Zones;
- And then you generate the schedule to be exported to PRIMAVERA P6 or MS PROJECT.
When you open a project, you come on this window. You have to define the Referencial, I mean the tree structure Product (PBS, Product Breakdown Structure), Activity (ABS, Activity Breakdown Structure) and Zone (ZBS, Zone Breakdown Structure).
Generally, the PBS is imported from MS EXCEL, to earn time. To be noted that some Products are instanciated (eg: WC1 & WC2), it means that they are of the same family of their father in the hiercharchy. In anothers words, the activities deployed to build these Products will be the same for all the instanciated Products “WC”.
You can change the name of the tree items, and description, and define the attributes of the Product. The attribute is a code parallel to the dimension ‘Product’, it can be for instance ‘Discipline’ or ‘Contract’. You can see a tabular view of the Product tree structure, as shown below.
Then, you import form EXCEL the ABS or define the Activities, in this screen.
It is the same principle than the Products, you see the tree structure on the left side of the screen, and you can define description and attributes on the right side.
To finish with the referencial part, you import form EXCEL or you type the Zone tree structure.
Then, the referencial is finished, you can start to structure the project.
The first step of the structuring part is to deploy activities on Products. You just click on the table and the affectation are colored in red.
In the screen before, we can see for instance that the windows must be assembled and painted.
In the second step of the structuring part, you will assign Product into Zone.
In this example above, we can see that the roof is assigned to the Kitchen, the dining room, parent’s room, bathroom, etc.
The next step is to define the relationships of the schedule.
You can do Activity logical links in this screen (horizontal) of Product logical links (oblique). These logical links can have attribute FS, SS ou FF with lags.
You can link only the Products that belong to the same Zone because there is another screen to link interzones Products (just after). You can see in this diagram that you assemble the window and then you paint it.
Then, you will define the interzones logical links. It means logical links between Products and the Zones. Of course the source and destination Activity will be asked by Cubix360.
In the above example, you can see that the window is first installed to the kitchen, then the dining room, then the parents’ room, etc.
The next step is to define the duration of the tasks.
First, you will define generic duration at the crossing between Product and Activity. It is a first estimate.
Then, you will define multiplier coefficient, function of the volume of the Zone, for each Product.
The last step is the generation of the schedule.
If you click on ‘Actualize’, you will see the schedule database.
If you click on ‘Schedule view’, you will see view of your schedule.
And then, if you click on ‘Export’, you will have the overall database of the schedule.
After an export to MS PROJECT or PRIMAVERA P6 we obtain the following schedule.
Schedules done with Cubix360 are very structured. It contain all task code (Zone, Product, Acitivity and attributes at different levels) that allow to find easily the information. These schedules are done very quicky with a gain factor between 5 to 10.
It is multidimensional schedule because it crosses the ABS, the PBS and the ZBS.
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