Plan Work Packaging Overview

InEight Plan is an application within the InEight portfolio of products. It is a tool for engineers and superintendents to plan their work and track quantities during the construction of the project.

InEight Plan is organized into two modules:

Plan Modules
Work Packaging	Creating and managing work packages.
Quantity Tracking	Creating and managing components and claiming schemes. Claiming completed quantities.

InEight Plan Work Flow

The below workflow illustrates the functions of both InEight Plan and InEight Progress, and how data flows between the two applications.

 

The image below depicts a layout for a steel structure project.  The project consists of erecting 30 separate steel structures on opposite sides of a road.  Each structure or module has been assigned a number 1-30.

Work Packaging

Work Packaging breaks down projects into small, manageable scopes of work so that operations can be assigned to responsible supervision, executed, and tracked effectively. In InEight Plan, you can break the work of your project into construction work areas (CWAs), construction work packages (CWPs) and installation work packages (IWPs).

As mentioned in the scenario above, the scope of the Steel Structure project was too big to manage without segmenting it down to work packages representing one to four weeks’ worth of work. In Plan, this breakdown of the project could look like this:

Work Package Details

Work package details include the following information:

• Work sequence

• Budget

• Resources required

• Components and quantities

• Constraint Management

• Safety, quality, and environmental concerns

For your Steel Erection work plan, you can create a work package for each module. 

In Work Package Management, you will learn about work plans and work packages in detail, including how to create them and define plan details.

Comprehensive Workflow

The diagram below displays both sections of Plan and how they integrate with InEight Progress, InEight Control and your Payroll system.

You will notice the areas where you create associations between work packages and daily plans, work packages and components, and components and claiming schemes.

The details of this workflow and the step by step functions within it will be covered in the remaining lessons of this and the Plan Quantity Tracking module and the Progress module.