Tutorial Video: Differential Equations #5

Built upon Differential Equations #4 includes showing the use of the new ODE Wizard which automates some of the steps required.

Differential Equations #5

posted by Tracey Coffman @ 11:06 AM

Tutorial Video: Differential Equations #4

Built upon Differential Equations #3

Differential Equations #4

posted by Tracey Coffman @ 11:04 AM

Tutorial Video: Differential Equations #3

Built upon Differential Equations #2

Differntial Equations #3

posted by Tracey Coffman @ 11:03 AM

Tutorial Video: Differential Equations #2

Built upon Differential Equations #1

Differential Equations #2

posted by Tracey Coffman @ 11:00 AM

Tutorial Video: Differential Equations #1

We’re going to record some video tutorials for a variety of TK Solver topics. The tutorials will be posted in the support section of the UTS web site. Each one will be about five minutes in length and in some cases we’ll include a series of several videos to cover topic. These will be based on text from existing documentation and case studies written over the years but it’s often much more efficient to have a video to see it in action. The sessions will not necessarily go into every bit of detail but should be useful for people who want to follow along, pausing to try the same things on their own computer if necessary. We are interested in getting suggestions for video topics. A sample can be seen in the link below.

Differential Equations #1

Labels: Tutorial Video

posted by Tracey Coffman @ 2:32 PM

PTS - Core Administrative Module

The Administrative Module is the core module that provides the facilities to:

• Manage projects (Create and edit project information)
• Link projects to their respective packages or systems (Add, edit and delete packages from a project)
• Link individual packages to their respective project plans
• Associate users with various projects and project groups
• Provide each user with specific roles and privileges to access various project details through the client module
• Create, edit and maintain a list of all manufactured and supplied items for each package in each project. These items are then tracked during the following project phases: Item manufacturing and inspection, item dispatch, item receipt at plant site, item erection
• Link design review groups to their respective project plan activities
• Link pre-award activities to their respective project plan activities, including: Notice inviting tenders, opening of bid documents provided by bidders for each package, reciept of the letter of acceptance from bidders
• Create and manage specific lists of "Sensitive Activites" for each package. Sensitive Activities are tracked for delays through the life of a project

This is the final installment in a ten-part series about UTS's Project Tracking System.

Labels: Project Tracking System

posted by Tracey Coffman @ 4:50 PM

PTS - Document Management Module

Every activity in a Project Plan involves documentation, which may be shared across teams or among team members. PTS provides upload, filtering and search facilities for viewing information pertaining to Project activities. These may include documents that are internally generated and then uploaded for sharing with other Project or team members.

Documents can be readily viewed. Supported formats include Microsoft Office, PDF, TXT and RTF and DWG files. Support for specific file extensions can be added as needed.

This post is the ninth in a ten-part series about UTS's Project Tracking System. Check back next week for the final installment, which will discuss the core Administrative Module.

Labels: Project Tracking System

posted by Tracey Coffman @ 2:00 PM

PTS - Meetings Management Module

The MM module sets up Project-related meetings and includes facilities to issue meeting notices to a chosen attendee list (subject, agenda, time, date, duration and venue). Attendees also receive notices when meetings are cancelled by the originator. The following images show a typical meeting setup screen and a user-specific view of meetings that they convened or need to attend.

This post is the eighth in a ten-part series about UTS's Project Tracking System. Check back next week to learn about the Document Management Module.

posted by Tracey Coffman @ 2:00 PM

PTS - Corporate Client Module

PTS comes with an elaborate Dashboard that provides point-and-click access on the status of every Package and every ongoing Project. Information on planned and previous Projects can also be accessed and reported.

The Client Module provides a privilege-based view of all activities in the Project Plan. For each Package in each Project, the status (percentage completed) of each activity and a consolidated completion status–rolled up to the Package and Project levels–can be readily accessed. The Client Module also provides a number of default reports. These include:

Project Group Progress report
Package Pre-Award report
Running Project Cost Report
Time Tracker Report
Package Listing Report
Billing Breakup Units Report (BBU or manufactured and bought out item groups and individual items in each group)
Activity Alert Report (for viewing the status of various Project activities and identifying the ones that are running late for more timely action)
Sensitive Activity Report

Project participants interact primarily with the client module on a day-to-day basis to update status and time-related information.

Here are some typical Corporate Client Module screens:

Interface for updating action taken for critical and sensitive activities


Resource Cost Rate Table for Project Running Cost calculations based on entries in the Time Tracker Module

This post is the seventh in a ten-part series about UTS's Project Tracking System. Check back next week to read about the Meetings Management Module.

Labels: Project Tracking System

posted by Tracey Coffman @ 2:00 PM

PTS - Time Tracker and Cost Information Module

Every project utilizes an intangible resource–time–which adds to the cost of any project. Human resource costs are sometimes calculated in an ad-hoc manner or get averaged across projects. Consequently, the time spent by Engineers, Reviewers, Site Inspectors, Site Managers and other project entities is missed. The TTC module provides a time sheet with a login and password for every project participant. Individuals’ time is tracked on a daily basis to provide a complete cost estimate in terms of resource hours. TTC can readily monitor a more precise running cost for each project if the cost rate information is provided. The following image shows a typical Time Tracker interface:

Dialog showing how PTS users can make task-based time sheet entries into the system.

This post is the sixth in a ten-part series about UTS's Project Tracking System. Check back next week to learn about the Corporate Client Module.

Labels: Project Tracking System

posted by Tracey Coffman @ 2:00 PM