Labour & Plant

Who can use this feature?

All project users can add Labour and Plant to their Tasks.

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Project Admins can create new Labour and Plant resources.

Labour and Plant can be added to Tasks to track and forecast your daily resource demand.

Create Labour Resource

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Creating Labour resource lets you build a reusable library of Labour to assign to Tasks.

To create Labour:

• Click your Project Title in the top left, then select Project Assets

• Select Labour from the menu

• Click

• Create your custom Labour resource by entering the Name, Labour Type and a Colour

• The Labour resource is added to the library of Labour the team can assign to their Tasks

Labour Types

Labour Types
Individual Resource
Crew

Create Plant Resource

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Creating Plant resource lets you build a reusable library of Plant to assign to Tasks.

To create Plant:

• Click your Project Title in the top left, then select Project Assets

• Select Plant from the menu

• Click

• Create your custom Plant resource by entering the Name, Plant Type and Colour

• The Plant resource is added to the library of Plant the team can assign to their Tasks

Plant Type

Plant Types
Access Equipment
Backhoe
Compacting Equipment
Concrete Placement
Concrete pumps
Cranes
Dozers
Dumper
Earthmoving Equipment
Excavators
Forklifts
Graders
Lifting Equipment
Marine Equipment
Other
Painting and Coating Equipment
Piling Equipment
Piling Rigs
Rollers
Small or Hand Tools
Tipper Lorrys (20 Tonne)
Trucks and Lorries
Wheeled Loaders

Assign Labour Resources to Tasks

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You can assign as many Labour resources to each Task as you need. Once added to the task, they’re assumed to be needed for the entire working duration - keeping things simple and helping teams plan ahead.

To add Labour to a Task:

• On the Gantt, navigate to the column picker and toggle Labour

• Click the Labour cell for your Task & select the relevant Labour option from the dropdown menu

• Use the + / - buttons to increase or decrease the Labour quantity needed for the duration of the Task

See also: Bulk Edits

Assign Plant Resources to Tasks

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You can assign as many Plant resources to each Task as you need. Once added, they’re assumed to be needed for the entire working duration - keeping things simple and helping teams plan ahead.

To add Plant to a Task:

• On the Gantt, navigate to the column picker and toggle Plant

• Click the Plant cell for your Task & select the relevant Plant option from the dropdown menu

• Use the + / - buttons to increase or decrease the Plant quantity needed for the duration of the Task

See also: Bulk Edits

Plant & Labour Property Rules

• Labour & Plant are multi-select properties

  • You can assign multiple types of labour or plant to each Task

  • Each assigned item can have its own quantity

• Quantities are applied per day

  • A quantity of 5 means 5 units are required for each day of the Task's duration

  • Quantities cannot vary across the days of a Task

• Archived Labour & Plant resources will no longer be available to add to Tasks but will still exist on tasks it was assigned to before the resource was archived

View Forecasted Resources on the Gantt

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Use the Resource Overlay in the Gantt to forecast Labour & Plant demand day by day. You'll see how much of each Labour or Plant is needed across the project, with a clear breakdown of which Tasks are driving that usage and who's using it.

To turn on the Labour Resource Overlay

• Click and select Resources

• Use the icons on the left to view Labour

• Hover over the numbers to view your Total and Project Utilisation

• Click to filter to either Crew or Individual Resource

• Click the Resources Configuration icon to switch between Tasks in View and Project Utilisation

• Hover over to see the daily breakdown

To turn on the Plant Resource Overlay

• Click and select Resources

• Use the icons on the left to view Plant

• Hover over the numbers to view your Total and Project Utilisation

• Click to filter to a specific Plant Type

• Click the Resources Configuration icon to switch between Tasks in View and Project Utilisation

• Hover over to see the daily breakdown

See also: Export Resource Demand

What's Shown on Hover

On hover, the daily breakdown includes:

• Utilisation

  • Quantity of Material used by Tasks in your current View (respects filters)

• # no of Tasks

  • Number of Tasks in your current View using that Material on the selected day (respects filters)

• Project Utilisation

  • Total quantity used across the entire project (ignores filters)

• # no of Project Tasks

  • Number of Project-wide Tasks using that material on the selected day (ignores filters)

• Task Owner Breakdown

  • Lists each Task Owner contributing to Project usage

  • Includes Task Count and percentage of total utilisation for that day and Material

• Cell shading

  • Darker = higher quantity

  • Lighter - lower quantity

  • Scale is relative to the values shown in the current overlay

• Quantity values are only shown in Day View

  • In Week, Month or Year mode, cell shading remains but numeric values are hidden

Resource Overlay Configuration Options

Option	Function
Total	The demand for tasks in your current view
Project Utilisation	The demand for your entire project
Hide Un-utilised resources	Removes resources that aren’t assigned to any Tasks from the resource list

Filter by Labour

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Filter by Labour to quickly review and manage work related to a particular Labour item across your plan.

Filter by Labour:

• Click and

• Select Labour in the first dropdown

• Select from Is, Is Not, Is Empty, Is Not Empty in the second dropdown

• Select your desired Labour item in the third dropdown

Filter by Plant

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Filter by Plant to quickly review and manage work related to a particular Plant item across your plan.

To filter by Plant:

• Click and

• Select Plant in the first dropdown

• Select from Is, Is Not, Is Empty, Is Not Empty in the second dropdown

• Select your desired Plant item in the third dropdown

See also: create & share Views

Filter Breakdown

Filter	Operator	Value
Labour	Is Is Not Is Empty Is Not Empty	Multi-Select
Plant	Is Is Not Is Empty Is Not Empty	Multi-Select

Report on Labour and Plant Demand

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Power BI

Connect your Project as a datasource for Power BI to report on Labour & Plant Demand.

Aphex Insight

Utilise Aphex Insight to track Labour & Plant Resource Demand. See trends and drill down into specific Tasks to identify where each Labour and Plant Resource is allocated.

See also: Connect to Power BI