Hartman Walsh Industrial Services

An industrial painting, coatings, and infrastructure services contractor with over 75 years of experience delivering complex projects across the United States and Canada. The company manages large-scale industrial projects where schedule tracking and project coordination are critical to successful execution.

The Challenge

Hartman Walsh regularly works on complex industrial projects involving multiple schedules, revisions, and project stakeholders.

 

As project schedules evolved, the team needed a reliable way to compare updated schedules against previous versions to quickly identify:

 

  • Changes in project timelines
  • Delayed or accelerated activities
  • Added or removed tasks
  • Schedule impacts across critical project milestones
  • Overall project performance trends

 

The existing review process required significant manual effort and made it difficult to efficiently analyze large project schedules and communicate changes to project teams.

How We Helped

We developed a custom Excel-based project schedule comparison tool powered by VBA automation.

 

The solution allows project teams to import multiple schedule versions and automatically compare them against each other.

 

The tool was designed to:

 

  • Detect changes in activity dates and durations
  • Highlight added, removed, and modified tasks
  • Compare schedule revisions automatically
  • Generate visual Gantt charts for side-by-side analysis
  • Produce project comparison reports for management review

 

Everything was built within Excel, ensuring the solution remained easy for project managers and operations teams to use without requiring additional software.

Results

  • Eliminated hours of manual schedule comparison work
  • Improved visibility into project schedule changes
  • Reduced the risk of missing critical project updates
  • Automated Gantt chart creation and reporting
  • Increased efficiency in project planning and review processes
  • Delivered a repeatable system that can be used across future industrial projects

 

By transforming schedule analysis into an automated process, Hartman Walsh gained faster insight into project changes, enabling more proactive project management and better decision-making across its operations.