Conceptual Cost Estimator version 1.0.0.2

InterPlan Systems announces an update for the Conceptual Cost Estimator (CCE) that includes an enhancement to the estimating worksheet. CCE now allows users to enter comments in the estimating worksheet to keep track of details pertinent to an estimate. The new, enhanced CCE is available now.

eTaskMaker Module Updates for May

InterPlan Systems has released the following new and updated eTaskMaker estimating modules:

• AG Centrifugal Pump Installation (Rev. 3) – (updated)
• Bolt Tightening Test – (new)
• Broken Bolts-Studs-Keys Removal (Metal Disintegration Method (Rev. 2) – (updated)
• Cable Tray (Standard, Metal Ladder Type) Installation (Rev. 3) – (updated)
• Centrifuge (Rev. 5) – (updated)
• Channel Head Belzona Repairs (Rev. 3) – (updated)
• Chemical Cleaning of Unit (Rev. 3) – (updated)
• Converter Bottle Catalyst Change & Inspection (Rev. 4) – (updated)
• Conveyors Feeder Screw (Rev. 5) – (updated)
• Conveyors Open Belt (Rev. 4) – (updated)
• Electrical Conduit Re-routing (Rev. 2) – (updated)
• Electric Motor Starters & Push Buttons (Rev. 3) – (updated)
• Elevator (Rev. 2) – (updated)
• Equipment Procurement – Fabricated – (new)
• Equipment Procurement – Rotating Equipment – (new)
• Equipment Procurement – Stock Item – (new)
• Flare Header – (new)
• Flange Machining – (new)
• Floodwater Damage Recovery – (new)
• Foundation – Storage Tank – (new)
• Fugitive Emissions Identification (Pre-Turnaround) (Rev. 2) – (updated)
• Heat Exchanger U-Tubes – Bolting Update – (new)
• High Voltage Insulator Cleaning & Coating (Rev. 1) – (updated)
• Injection Quill Installation (Rev. 1) – (updated)
• Instruments Pneumatic – Field Service (Rev. 3) – (updated)
• Insulator Cleaning & Coating – (new)
• Manway Opening (Rev. 3) – (updated)
• Nuclear Level Calibration (Rev. 2) – (updated)
• Orifice Flanges (Rev. 3) – (updated)
• Orifice Plates (Rev. 7) – (updated)
• Pipe Insulation – Eslin – (new)
• Piping – Flare Line Replacement (Rev. 4) – (updated)
• Plastic Pipe (Erection Underground) – (new)
• Retube Floating Head Tube Bundle (rev. 2) – (updated)
• Scaffold Dismantling (Rev. 3) – (updated)
• Scaffold Erection (Rev. 3) – (updated)
• Scrubbers (Rev. 2) – (updated)
• Site Plan Development – (new)
• Transformer – Pole Mounted (Rev. 1) – (updated)
• Transformer Radiator Gasket Replacement (Rev. 1) – (updated)
• Transformer Radiator Leak Repairs (Rev. 1) – (updated)
• Traveling Water Screen (Rev. 1) – (updated)
• TSA & TSZ Spray Coating Corrosion Control (Rev. 1) – (updated)
• UHP Water Jet Cutting (Rev. 2) – (updated)
• Unit Shutdown – (new)
• Underground Pipe (Cast iron – Concrete – PVC) – (new)
• Vessel Cladding Overlay (Automatic) (Rev. 3) – (updated)
• Welding Shelters & Wind Breaks (Rev. 1) – (updated)
• Work Force Mobilization (Rev. 1) – (updated)

Additionally, eTaskMaker modules have now been organized into folders. eTaskMaker clients may now download the update from our downloads repository.

eTaskMaker Vs. Templates

InterPlan Systems has published a new white paper that looks at the relative strengths of eTaskMaker vs. a template manager in helping an organization achieve standardization of best practices in planning and estimating for STOs (turnarounds, I&Ts (inspection & testing), shutdowns, emergency outages, debottlenecking projects, revamps, catalyst regeneration, etc.). The new white paper can be found here:

https://www.interplansystems.com/project-planning-software/eTaskMaker-versus-templates.html

Revised Licensing Terms

InterPlan Systems revised the licensing costs for eTaskMaker and ATC Professional effective immediately. The new fee schedules for licensing each application are detailed in the Schedule of Fees documents linked from our order page.

InterPlan Systems exhibiting at the 2018 AFPM Reliability and Maintenance Conference

InterPlan Systems will be exhibiting at the May 2018 AFPM Reliability and Maintenance Conference in San Antonio, TX in booth 721. Please stop by our booth and say hello. We will be exhibiting our planning and management solutions including the next generation version of ATC Professional. We’ll also have copies of our STO Planning and Management Handbooks on hand for review. We look forward to seeing you there.

ATC Pro Development Update

Following up on our previous announcement, we are still hard at work developing our next gen version of ATC Professional. We are currently creating reports with the new ad hoc reporting engine. We expect to send invitations for alpha testing as soon as the current development phase is complete. Would you like to see what the new ATC looks like right now? We will be demonstrating some of the new capabilities at upcoming conferences. Check the ATC News page for details.

InterPlan Systems at the 2018 PMIES Expo and Conference

InterPlan Systems will be exhibiting at the Plant Maintenance, Inspection and Engineering Society’s March 2018 Expo and Conference in Pasadena, TX. Mr. Dick Ertl will also be delivering a presentation on Estimating Standards for Turnarounds.

We will be exhibiting our planning and management solutions including the next generation version of ATC Professional. We’ll also have copies of our STO Planning and Management Handbooks on hand for review. We look forward to seeing you there.

InterPlan Systems Exhibiting at the PMIES Expo and Conference

InterPlan Systems will be exhibiting at the April 2017 Plant Maintenance, Inspection and Engineering Society’s Expo and Conference in Pasadena, TX in booth 308. Please stop by our booth and say hello. We will be exhibiting our planning and management solutions including the next generation version of ATC Professional. We’ll also have copies of our STO Planning and Management Handbooks on hand for review. We look forward to seeing you there.

InterPlan Systems Exhibiting at the 2017 AFPM Reliability and Maintenance Conference

InterPlan Systems will be exhibiting at the May 2017 AFPM Reliability and Maintenance Conference in New Orleans, LA in booth 245. Please stop by our booth and say hello. We will be exhibiting our planning and management solutions including the next generation version of ATC Professional. We’ll also have copies of our STO Planning and Management Handbooks on hand for review. We look forward to seeing you there.

eTaskMaker Module Updates for April

InterPlan Systems has released the following new and updated eTaskMaker estimating modules (the revisions consist mainly in the addition of tasks that allow the tracking and documentation of equipment release from Operations. Also, QA/QC tasks have been added as an important step in releasing the equipment back for start-up.):

• Agitators (Rev. 10) – (updated)
• BFW Preheater (Rev. 3) – (updated)
• Blowers (Rev. 8) – (updated)
• Compressor Motor (Rev. 5) – (updated)
• Contactor Reactor (Rev. 1) – (updated)
• Cooling Tower (Rev. 5) – (updated)
• Crude Furnace (Rev. 8) – (updated)
• Desalter Feed Water Drum (Rev. 10) – (updated)
• Drums (Rev. 22) – (updated)
• FCC Reactor (Rev. 7) – (updated)
• FCC Regenerator (Rev. 4) – (updated)
• Four Stage Piston Compressor (Rev. 2) – (updated)
• Furnace Decoking (Rev. 4) – (updated)
• Heat Exchanger Double Pipe (Rev. 11) – (updated)
• Heat Exchanger Fixed Tubesheet (Rev. 18) – (updated)
• Heat Exchanger Floating Head (Rev. 18) – (updated)
• Heat Exchanger Reboiler – Vaporizer (Rev. 9) – (updated)
• Heat Exchanger U-Tubes (Rev. 32) – (updated)
• Heat Exchanger Vertical (Rev. 16) – (updated)
• High Temperature Shift Converter (Rev. 6) – (updated)
• Horizontal Multi-Stage Compressor (Rev. 1) – (new) Open, clean and inspect
• NH3 Process Compressor (Rev. 7) – (updated)
• Reactor Catalyst Change (Rev. 11) – (updated)
• Reactors (Rev. 14) – (updated)
• Towers (Rev. 17) – (updated)
• Waste Heat Boiler (Rev. 6) – (updated)

eTaskMaker clients may now download the update from our downloads repository.