Tilos Pipeline

What is TILOS?

 

TILOS is a linear scheduling system developed for planning and managing projects in civil engineering, like highways, rail-tracks, tunnels, pipelines and bridges.

The major enhancement is, that TILOS connects the geographic information of the construction site with the schedule, showing what is built when and where. CPM schedules and network diagrams are more analytical, but fail to provide a visual connection between the project plan and the project itself.

 

Project

How can TILOS be used on your project?

TILOS can be used in all phases of a project, from early design to controlling on site. The ability to schedule, in as much detail as required, enables you to show overview plans or detailed plans down to one minute precision.

  • Design phase for feasibility studies:
    TILOS is designed to allow quick and straight forward planning just by drawing the schedule direct on screen.
  • Tendering and procurement phase:
    TILOS demonstrates that the bid has been well prepared and the company will be able to finish the project successfully in the given time frame. Collisions can be easy detected.
  • Execution phase:
    TILOS allows you to plan the project in detail, deploy the work and record progress on the project.
  • Claim management:
     Analyze changes to the project and show the results while preparing and defending claims.

 

Advantages of TILOS

TILOS

Traditional planning systems display their results in bar charts or network diagrams. In linear projects the crews and equipment move along the construction site from one place to another to do their jobs.

Both of the traditional diagrams are not able to show a graphical link between the location where the work is performed (the distance axis) and the time when it is executed (the time axis).

 

How do I describe the project site details?

TILOS

Site related data like elevation and crossing lists help to identify constraints. Most data is available well before you start scheduling work. TILOS can import this data and increase the information communicated along with the plan while reducing the effort of re-entering the data multiple times.

  • Symbols and Pictures can be imported and placed along the distance axis to describe the work that has to be performed in the project.
  • Scales and grids describe important station points. Grid lines assigned to stations also ease the work of entering data.
  • Speed profiles model non-linear productivity rates in different sections of the project (slope areas, wetlands, heavy rock arease or simply a learning curve).
  • Distance related graphs, such elecation, slope diagrams or mass haul profiles showing cut and fill sections can be generated directly from profiles data.
  • Quantities stored inside the profiles are used to calculate the task's work rate and duration in different sections of the project. Thus linear activities are represented as curves showing exactly the progress in the field based on construction challenges.