Consulting Services
OnTrack Engineering's senior staff has been providing a full range of project controls and management consulting services since 1984,
helping our clients solve their toughest project challenges. With a network of alliance partners throughout North America,
we offer expanded consulting services to owners, contractors, and engineering consultants.
Our services include:
Business consulting services
We have a team of partners and associates that are at the ready to help OnTrack with its consulting arm. Most are also subject matter experts with decades of capital project experience for large owners and EPC firms. They can help you evaluate your business processes and provide recommendations and guidelines for implementing best practices as they relate to any phase of your EPC projects, these include:
Supply chain management
In addition to our international procurement expertise, our clients benefit from access to OnTrack Project Manager's extensive planning, cost control and reporting features. Our procurement module covers the entire procurement process, from request for bid to invoice processing and approval and payment of bills from a trust account.
Overall project controls
The backbone of successful project execution is the use of sound project controls tools by experienced managers. Through our network of associates and partners, we provide you with controls managers who have successfully completed projects worth billions of dollars in capital costs, spanning industries from mining, heavy civil, chemical, petrochemical and pipelines to food processing. OnTrack Engineering's integrated tools and procedures give our clients substantial savings in man-hours and money, and help keep their projects on schedule and within budget. Our involvement in a project ranges from initial implementation of OnTrack Project Manager as the core tool to full project execution by our personnel.
Estimating
At the start of project controls, estimating defines project scope and sets the baseline for both cost and schedule. Using OnTrack Engineering's proprietary tools and our own proven extensive database, we provide intelligent estimating. Our proprietary estimating program uses the same format for both conceptual and lump sum bid estimates, with conceptually derived quantities being replaced by actual takeoffs and default prices by quotations for lump sum estimates.
Risk management
OnTrack Engineering provides risk assessment reviews using our in-house tools or those requested by our clients to determine the appropriate contingency for each project.
Planning
Although existing CPM technology and tools are useful for the initial schedule for any project, they need to be supplemented when it comes to project execution. Existing products do not automatically expand activities to reflect partial activities or deliveries, nor do they integrate with other reporting vehicles such as material receiving or contract progress to perform automatic updating. Reporting on engineering progress involving hundreds of parallel and fuzzily related activities is impractical using only these tools. OnTrack Project Manager's planning module emphasizes resources and earned progress reporting rather than the number of activities when preparing the master schedule. OnTrack provides an experienced specialist in every sector of the industry to oversee the planning, while the details of calculations are handled by the software.
Progress monitoring
OnTrack Engineering uses a proprietary package called KeepTrack for progress monitoring of engineering and construction. This package provides earned values by taking into consideration actual quantities or intermediate weighted milestones for engineering activities, productivity, and resources necessary to expand until the planned project completion date. With this methodology, we can boast that we have never missed a schedule as we carefully monitor these "facts" and continuously recommend appropriate corrective actions as required.