LCCWare Part Trees

What are Life Cycle Cost Part Trees?

Part trees provide the user with a convenient method of assigning the costs associated with a frequently used piece of equipment (and its constituent parts) to a cost function.

The part trees window allows the user to add as many part trees as required at the top level. Each part tree has any number of constant or time dependent variables associated with it (known as part tree variables).

Below each part tree the user may create a tree structure of parts, as complex or simple as required. Each part has a number of values associated with it, each corresponding to a parent part tree variable (time dependent variable values are dimensioned according to the number of time sequences and the number of time points per time sequence). The user enters data values for each part/variable combination.

The screen shot below shows the Part Trees structure in the lccWare main window: