The estimating platform built for industrial projects, maintenance & turnarounds
NextGen Planning takes any scope — a capital project, routine maintenance, or a full turnaround — from first man-hour estimate to field execution, with a catalog-driven estimator, resource plans by contractor, CPM scheduling, procurement, and daily progress, all in one system.
● BUILT FOR MAINTENANCE, CAPITAL PROJECT & TURNAROUND TEAMS
Built in the plant, for the plant
NextGen wasn't designed in a software office. It comes from live turnarounds — crude units, exchanger bundles, tank farms, flare systems — planned by the refinery planner who built it. This is the kind of scope it runs every day.
Everything your projects need, connected
No more disconnected spreadsheets. Every estimate feeds the schedule, the schedule feeds procurement, and the field feeds progress back — one source of truth.
Catalog-driven estimator
Build estimates from a 2,150-row MH catalog across 201 equipment types. WBS tree by phase, equipment and task, with service, crew-by-size, and flange-class factors applied automatically.
Resource planning
Organize labor by contractor and craft, track indirect and support staff, and see manning demand on a live histogram grouped by craft or company.
CPM scheduling & Gantt
Forward and backward pass scheduling with total/free float, resource leveling, critical path, and start-shift or crew-stretch leveling modes.
Procurement & MTO
Parse vendor quotes, generate SAP requisitions and RFQs, and produce material take-offs with ANSI-correct flange hardware straight from the estimate.
Bid pipeline
Track candidate projects through a Kanban pipeline, invite contractors by email, and collect and compare sealed bids on a public response portal.
Annual portfolio plan
A draggable multi-year Gantt of candidate projects by department and priority — plan the whole turnaround portfolio, then promote a candidate into a full estimate.
From man-hour to field progress
NextGen Planning follows the real project workflow — capital projects, maintenance, and turnarounds alike — with nothing re-keyed between stages.
Estimate
Pull catalog tasks into a WBS estimate with factors, crews, and per-craft cost.
Plan & schedule
Assign contractors, level resources, and generate a CPM schedule with float.
Procure
Turn the estimate into MTOs, RFQs, and SAP requisitions with vendor quotes.
Execute
Print field work packages and capture dated % complete for the S-curve.
Know exactly where the work stands
Daily progress entry rolls straight into an earned-value S-curve, so planned versus earned man-hours are never a guess.
- ✓Day and night shift field work packages, ready to print
- ✓Dated progress history for trend, slippage, and audit
- ✓Planned vs. earned MH S-curve with variance
- ✓Excel, SAP, and Primavera P6 exports
- ✓Multi-tenant workspaces with role-based access
Field & engineering calculators for every discipline
Purpose-built for the trades and for electrical, instrumentation & machinery engineering — the estimating calculators write their result straight into the project estimator.
MH estimator
Man-hour lookup across the full catalog with condition, service, and repair factors.
Rigging & crane
Load build-up, crane utilization vs. chart, sling and shackle sizing, suggested crane class.
Exchanger
TEMA tube count, bundle weight, and pull force with a shell & tube schematic.
Weld & PWHT
Repair-zone area picker, automated weld processes, and full PWHT cycle breakdown.
Scaffold
Volume-based erect and dismantle MH, crew and duration, with LiftBot productivity factor.
Isolation / blind planner
Upload a blind list, split operations from mechanical hours, and push phased lines to the estimate.
Coating & blast
Surface-area takeoff to blast and coat production, paint and abrasive quantities, and MH by square foot with a DFT cross-section.
Electrical (NEC)
Wire sizing by ampacity, voltage drop, motor full-load amps with branch conductor & breaker, and conduit fill — straight from the NEC tables.
Instrumentation
4-20 mA scaling, DP-level calibration (dry & wet leg), RTD resistance-to-temperature, and flow & control-valve Cv.
Machinery / millwright
Shaft alignment and rotating-equipment R&R hours, bolt torque, plus pulley, gear-ratio, V-belt, thermal-growth and bearing-life math.
In the office and out in the field
A full web platform for planners, plus a native iOS companion for the field.
Built to protect your project data
Access is controlled, data is isolated per company, and every file and change is accounted for.
Invite-only access
No open sign-up. Accounts are created only for emails an administrator adds to the invite list, so you decide exactly who gets in.
Role-based permissions
Owner, admin, member, and viewer roles scoped at both the organization and project level control who can see and edit each estimate.
Encrypted credentials & sessions
Passwords are hashed with bcrypt, sessions are signed tokens, and all traffic runs over TLS — with optional Google single sign-on.
Isolated company data
Multi-tenant by design — each organization's projects, estimates, and catalogs are partitioned so one company can never see another's data.
Private file storage
Uploaded photos and documents live in a private bucket and are served only through login-protected, expiring signed URLs.
Activity audit trail
Comments and changes are recorded with the user and a timestamp, giving every project a traceable history for review and accountability.
Plan your next project with confidence
Bring estimating, scheduling, procurement, and field execution into one platform built for industrial capital project, maintenance, and turnaround teams.