IntroductionKey Parameters Which Drive Estimating Quantities
- Discuss which parameters considered by ACCE drive cost quantities in a given project
- Discuss the impact Project and Area level specifications have in the volumetric model
- Emphasize the importance of defining correctly the components
Area Concepts
- Identify and explain the use of Areas in ACCE
- Demonstrate how to set Area level specifications
- Review the Area types available in ACCE and discuss their differences
- Demonstrate how equipment is installed, costed and modified in ACCE (foundations, structures, lighting, etc.)
- Demonstrate how to setup ISBL/OSBL designations for IPA Reports
Line Sizing
- Demonstrate the data entry requirements to define bulk pipe size
- Understand the key parameter that affect the size of any line calculated by the software
Volumetric Modeling
- Demonstrate how ACCE uses P&IDs and Volumetric Models to price a component
- Differentiate between Internal and External Volumetric Model
- Learn how to modify the volumetric model to accommodate your project P&ID
Testing Hours and Buried Items Calculation
- Review how ACCE calculates rework and testing hours, grounding calculations and buried pipe calculations
- Understand what “Other Accounts” reported in the Key Quantity Summary report are
Pricing Components Not in the System
- Show different options to model components not available in ACCE
- Understand the difference between Quoted Equipment and Unit Cost Library Item.
- Discuss how to add Bollards, Sonotubes and Variable Frequency Drives.
- Workshop #1 Plant Review Workshop
Source of Pricing
- Define the source of each piece of equipment entered in the project build
- Workshop #2 Source of Pricing
Project Layout Definition
- Show how ACCE establishes key distances to run wire and cable for electrical and process control
- Demonstrate how costs are reported at the following levels:
- Component Level
- Area Level
- Project Level
Process Control and Power Distribution
- Show setup requirements for power distribution and process control options and methodology using ACCE
Electrical Single Line Diagrams
- Gain an understanding of electrical single-line diagrams and single-line symbols
- Review Aspen Capital Cost Estimator (ACCE) generated power distribution (PD) architecture
- Present the ACCE Power Distribution architecture in single-line diagrams
- Workshop #3 Power Distribution
- Workshop #4 Process Control
Creating a Secondary Process Control
- Learn how to define a secondary control system in ACCE
- Learn and about the seven types of secondary control systems available to the user
- Workshop #5 Secondary Control System
Communications and Alarms
- Show how to add communication and alarms to a Project, an area or as a bulk component
- Workshop #6 Communications and Alarms
Special Instrument Valves
- Identify and explain the data entry requirement for specialty valves
- Review and evaluate the results for the specialty valves
- Workshop #7 Solenoid Control Valve
Cross Country Pipe Lines
- Understand the Pipe Line Area Capabilities of ACCE
- Discuss the Uses and Limitations
Pipe Fittings Frequency Rule
- Explain the Piping Fitting Rules
- Learn how to create a Fittings External File
- Workshop #8 Fittings Customization
Escalation Indices
- Identify and explain the methodology for updating the ACCE cost basis to the estimate date
- Identify and explain how to escalate the estimate cost from the estimate date to the mid point of cash flow
- Demonstrate how to generate a report to display spread or accumulated escalation
Code of Accounts and Indexing
- Explain the Code of Accounts (COA) used by ACCE
- Demonstrate how to rename COA
- Demonstrate how to transfer cost and man hours from one COA to another COA
- Demonstrate how to use COA indexing
- Define the difference between escalation and indexing
- Define the difference between COA indexing and contingency
Location Index
- Understand what Location Indexation is how it affects the final cost of the project
- Workshop #9 Code of Accounts
Crew Mixes
- Learn how can user define new crafts to the system crew mixes
Contracts
- Show how to organize areas for a contract structure
- Learn how to create engineering workforces (EWF) and construction workforces (CWF) for contracts
- Learn how to define Contract structures
- Understand how Contract Work Scopes (Consets) work
- Assign work to the Consets
- Understand what Indirect costs are linked to contractors
Customer Indirects File
- Demonstrate how to create a Customer Indirect File
- Show how to enter direct labor and material proratables
- Workshop #10 Customer Indirects
Customer Steel File
- Learn how to replace the system internal unit prices for steel with the user’s unit price steel data base costs
- Demonstrate how to complete the customer external steel specifications form
- Workshop #11 Steel External
Decision Analyzer
- Demonstrate how to use the Decision Analyzer component within ACCE to scale a plant up or down
- Show the power factors for quoted equipment and library items
- Demonstrate sizing limitations for components
- Workshop #12 Decision Analyzer
Currency
- Demonstrate how to enter the project currency and exchange rates into ACCE
- Demonstrate how to enter multiple currencies and exchange rates into ACCE
- Review the Overall-Currency COA Summary (Currency Report) in ACCE
Merging Components and AreasSpreadsheet Import/Export
- Discuss the import/export spreadsheet, which enables sharing of data with third-party applications
- Discuss project standards, enabling consistency and reliability among estimates
- Workshop #13 Spreadsheet Import / Export
Detailed Unit Rate Estimating
- Make detailed adjustments to a project using Unit Rate Estimating
- Workshop #14 Detailed Unit Rate Estimating
Counting Equipment in ACCE
- Demonstrate how ACCE counts equipment
- Review equipment components that are priced, but not counted
- Show how the “User specified equipment count” impacts equipment count
Discussion of Reports
- Open discussion between attendees to see how their companies currently use ACCE output reports
- Review the power of the ACCE reporting system to enhance the reporting of estimate results
Exporting ACCE to an Access Database
- Discuss how the Interactive Reports are created
- Discuss how users can create their own Access Database file
Error Trapping
- Demonstrate how to scan a scenario to find errors
- Identify and explain the error message types reported by ACCE and discuss their meaning
- Demonstrate how to review error messages in the list view window
- Workshop #15 Error Trapping
Exporting to SPECS file
- Demonstrate how to export the scenario SPECS file from an existing project
- Repair a corrupted file
- Then reimport the repaired file
- Workshop #16 SPECS file
Modules
- Learn how to define Modules in ACCE
- Verify the Output Information
- Create Effective Reports
- Workshop #17 Modules
File Locations
- Identify and explain the various file locations within ACCE
Navigating the Documentation
- Demonstrate how to access the reference documents in ACCE
- Use “F1” key for quick access to equipment documentation
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