Program control for plant capital and OT projects
BlueYoke keeps schedules, budgets, contractors and gates for every project in one place. Teams get a schedule that's easier to run than MS Project. Executives get one view of what's on track, what's slipping and what's next.
Built in MS Project and owned by one person
Every date change goes through the one person who knows the file, and the plant's shutdown calendar lives somewhere else.
Spent, committed and forecast are in three spreadsheets
Finance sees POs, the PM sees tasks, and nobody sees the estimate at completion until month-end.
Status is a slide rebuilt every Friday
Leadership asks "are we on track?" and the answer depends on who updated what, and when.
One tool from AFE to handover
Stage-gate capital projects and agile software work run side by side, on the same people, budgets and calendar.
Gantt you can actually move
Drag bars to change dates and the dependent tasks shift with them. Includes FS, SS, FF and SF links with lag, baselines and the critical path.
Executive overview
A red/amber/green verdict for each program, plus what's in flight, what's next and what needs a decision. It updates as the work does.
Project financials
CapEx and OpEx budgets, actuals, open commitments and an earned-value forecast at completion for every project.
Agile board & sprints
Board columns and WIP limits you define yourself. Sprints, story points and capacity sit on the same tasks as the Gantt.
Contractor time
Weekly timesheets with regular, overtime and double-time hours, labor categories with dated rates, and approvals. Labor cost rolls into the project actuals.
Custom fields & templates
Add your own fields, like AFE number, discipline, cost center or MOC required. Save a project as a template so the next one starts complete.
Scheduled around the line, not the calendar
General-purpose PM tools don't know when the line comes down. BlueYoke does.
- Shutdown windows per plant. Cutover tasks are flagged when they drift outside a planned outage.
- Stage gates that mean something. Concept → Approval → Design → Build → FAT/SAT → Commission → Handover, with gate requirements and sign-offs.
- RAID log on every project. Track risks, actions, issues and decisions where the schedule is.
- Bring your existing plans. Import from MS Project (XML), Excel or CSV, and export back out when you need to.
Budgets and forecasts that match the schedule
Costs, commitments and labor are tied to the same projects and tasks the team updates every day, so the forecast moves when the work moves.
- CapEx and OpEx tracked separately, with actuals and open POs per line item.
- Earned value (CPI, SPI and estimate at completion) without building it in Excel.
- Role-based access. Finance and executives see the dollars. Contractors and team members see their tasks.
| Project | Budget | Forecast | Var. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Line 3 case packer | $1.33M | $1.39M | −$60k |
| MES rollout, ph. 1 | $570k | $548k | +$22k |
| Historian & edge | $300k | $372k | −$72k |
| Program total | $2.20M | $2.31M | −$110k |
Sample data
MES and data teams work in sprints. The board is there too.
Software and analytics work is planned in sprints with points and capacity. It still rolls up to the same program dates and budget leadership sees.
To do 3
IT/OT
IT/OT
In progress 2/4
13 pts
13 pts
Review 1/3
Validation
For the people who run capital and digital programs
Program & project managers
One schedule, one budget and one RAID log per project, and no weekly status deck to rebuild.
Plant & operations leaders
See which projects touch your lines and when, before the outage plan is locked.
Finance & controllers
CapEx and OpEx, commitments and forecast at completion, without chasing PMs for numbers.
Engineers & integrators
Your tasks, your timesheet and your board. Contractors only see what they're assigned.
Up and running the same week
Import what you have
Bring in MS Project XML, Excel or CSV schedules, or start from the standard capital-project template.
Set up your plants
Add plants, shutdown windows, labor categories and the fields your team already tracks.
Invite the team
Give each person a role per project: PM, contributor, finance, executive or viewer.
See your program in BlueYoke
We're onboarding a small group of manufacturing teams. Tell us about your program, or open the demo workspace and try it yourself.