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Chemicals

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE FOR THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

Coordinate investment projects and work around plant shutdowns, with a clear view of available specialists, schedules and budgets. 

Chemical companies manage plant modernisation, investment, safety, compliance, digitalisation and transformation projects in parallel. These initiatives compete for technical specialists, budgets and limited time windows within ongoing plant operations.

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Project management software for the chemical industry

Can Do provides a shared planning basis for projects, portfolios and resources, even when dates, effort or resource requirements are not yet precisely known. This makes dependencies, capacity conflicts and planning risks visible early. 

Coordinate projects around plant shutdownsPlan early investment initiatives realisticallySafeguard mandatory, safety and compliance projects
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Applications

Three typical use cases in the chemical industry  

Coordinate projects around plant shutdowns

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Plant modernisation and technical work often need to take place within defined shutdown or turnaround windows. Work from several projects may depend on the same window and the same specialists.

With Can Do, shared shutdown windows can be represented as projects, phases or work packages and linked to activities from different projects.

Can Do plans staffing and project dependencies. Plant operation and machine control remain the responsibility of the systems designed for those purposes.

  • Make dependencies between projects transparent
  • Link preparatory work to shared shutdown windows
  • Identify schedule and resource conflicts
  • Understand how delays affect connected planning elements

Plan early investment initiatives realistically

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In early planning, start dates, project duration, effort, resource requirements and costs are often uncertain. These initiatives still need to be included in capacity and portfolio decisions.

Early investment initiatives can be included using estimated durations and effort, for example 60 to 80 hours. Can Do analyses potential resource, schedule and budget conflicts arising from these estimates.

Uncertainty is explicitly included in the plan.

  • Plan estimated start and end dates
  • Account for estimated durations and effort
  • Represent uncertain resource requirements and costs
  • Analyse potential conflicts involving people, skills, departments, dates, costs and budgets
  • Include early initiatives in portfolio and capacity decisions

Safeguard mandatory, safety and compliance projects

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Not every project can be prioritised using the same criteria. Safety, compliance and regulatory projects may have fixed deadlines while requiring the same resources as strategic investment initiatives.

Can Do can freeze the dates of a mandatory project and show its effects on the portfolio. 

  • Protect the overall dates of mandatory projects from changes
  • Organise must-do projects in dedicated portfolios
  • Restrict access to sensitive projects
  • Understand the effects on resources and other projects
  • Use portfolio and BI reporting to support management decisions

Who it is for

Who is Can Do designed for in chemical companies?

Head of PMO / Project Management Office 

You need visibility across investment, modernisation and transformation projects and their shared resources. 

With Can Do, you can:

  • Get a structured overview of project portfolios
  • Identify resource and schedule risks across projects
  • Assess new initiatives against available capacity
  • Compare scenarios to support planning decisions

Portfolio and investment management 

You need to assess which initiatives are feasible in parallel within existing resource and budget constraints. 

With Can Do, you can: 

  • Review ongoing and planned initiatives together
  • Identify resource and budget conflicts
  • Account for uncertain initiatives early
  • Compare specific planning scenarios

Heads of engineering and investment projects 

You are responsible for plant modernisation, investment and major technical projects. 

With Can Do, you can:

  • Plan technical resources across projects
  • Link plant and shutdown windows to project activities
  • Map project dependencies transparently
  • Plan early investment initiatives despite uncertain data

Production and plant management

You need to coordinate project work with the requirements of ongoing operations. 

With Can Do, you can:

  • Account for operational commitments when assessing available project capacity
  • Identify conflicts between project demand and available resources
  • Make dependencies on plant windows transparent
  • Understand the effects of new or rescheduled projects

HSE, compliance and transformation managers  

You coordinate initiatives whose schedules may have limited flexibility. 

With Can Do, you can:

  • Distinguish must-do projects from initiatives that can be freely prioritised
  • Safeguard the overall dates of mandatory projects
  • Make the effects on resources and other projects visible
  • Protect sensitive projects through access permissions