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VESSEL COSTER

Estimate vessels more quickly and consistently than ever before

Vessel Coster is a software system for estimating the cost of pressure vessels.

With Coster you can automatically estimate vessels previously designed with our program COMPRESS, or you can design and cost vessels from scratch with Vessel Modeler, a version of COMPRESS supplied free with Vessel Coster.

With Vessel Coster you can

• Generate estimates fast

  Coster is fast. You can model and cost a vessel and be out of there in a very short time.

• Model the vessels accurately

  Our libraries contain data as accurate as you make them. If you put in accurate data for your particular shop, you will get correspondingly accurate estimates.

• Make consistent estimates

  No two estimators will project the same cost when individual judgment can affect the result. Coster removes this variability. The same vessel will be estimated to cost the same no matter who does the estimate.

• Empower sales agents in the field.

  With Coster in his laptop computer, your sales person can estimate a vessel in the customer's office and clinch a sale on the spot.

• Increase sales and profits

  We believe that good estimating is the key factor for success.

Vessel Coster operation is based on a number of libraries or worksheets of cost data for materials and labor. The data are stored in an Access data base. You can review and change every number in the data base.

Some examples of the libraries in Vessel Coster are the following:

One important feature of our lookup tables is interpolation. Coster interpolates to find a value on a chart if no value is given for a particular parameter. What this means is that if the cost data are linear you only need two numbers to exactly specify the needed information over a very wide range. If you can adequately describe a curve with three straight lines then you only need four data points. Some of the tables in Coster have seemingly very sparse data, yet using interpolation they are sufficient.

The reports generated by Coster are in Excel spreadsheet format. The report is divided into three major sections: heads and shells, nozzles, and other items. In each group, detailed cost information on man hours for particular tasks, materials, and final cost for each major vessel component is presented. Total cost and labor for the entire vessel is also presented. There is also a bill of materials and a summary report.

Since the report is in spreadsheet format you can modify the format to fit your particular requirements. The summary report is on a separate page in the spreadsheet, and there you can easily make permanent changes. The summary report can be very bare bones, containing only bottom line cost, or as detailed as the original report. The point is that you define the report. You can add factored costs for sales and administration, shipping costs, and so on. It's your report.