AspenONE Engineering vs GEOVIA Surpac

Likelihood to Recommend

Answering where ACCE can be used - In Organizations, where each and every project is customized per customer requirements, and not just standard equipment. And where product engineering needs detailed cost buckets in the estimate. Also when there is a lot of purchase history to feed into ACCE to give accurate estimates. Not well suited for standard equipment manufacturing companies. Also when there are time crunches and resource or manpower shortages - as this tool needs time.

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Analyst in Marketing

Oil & Energy Company, 51-200 employees

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I have only used it for exploration projects but understand that with additional modules (such as pit design and production rates) it can be used for production schedules too. The software acts as a central interface for all of the drilling data from the borehole trace with customisable graphics or traces alongside (e.g.: geology, mag sus, assay results, struc info, etc) to the exporting of sections for field interp or planning; and resource block modeling.

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Environmental Services Company, 1-10 employees

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Pros

User-friendly
Works well for defining hypothetical components especially those of crude oil mixtures
Can design and rate heat exchanges and air coolers

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Manager in Engineering

Oil & Energy Company, 51-200 employees

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Sections
Tracing borehole logs with graphically presented data
Linking/mapping of data sets

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Environmental Services Company, 1-10 employees

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Cons

I haven't seen many tutorials available, especially videos
User Guide is too vast to explore and learn
Reporting is detailed but is also complex at the same time.
If any changes are to be made, then it involves a lot of time.

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Analyst in Marketing

Oil & Energy Company, 51-200 employees

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Interface is good, but could always be improved
Occasionally a little buggy when mapping DBs
Extensive additional module list; can customise experience and therefore cost but some would expect certain features as standard

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Alternatives Considered

User-friendly. Can define and estimate close properties of some crude oil mixtures and hypothetical components. Can run some detailed calculations on shell and tube heat exchangers and air-cooled heat exchangers. Not just rating and sizing, but also can perform capital cost estimates. It is a single tool for design, sizing and estimating.

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Manager in Engineering

Oil & Energy Company, 51-200 employees

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Lower cost and more user-friendly. My understanding is that the functionality is somewhat more limited but for our use in exploration it does the job and does it very well.

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Engineer in Other

Environmental Services Company, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

Investment apart from the cost of tool, is time - It is very time taking to obtain the results required
We are being trained by a professional consultant on ACCE, and yet to see the ROI
Detailed estimates as needed by Product Engineering is a plus

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Oil & Energy Company, 51-200 employees

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Saved consultancy fees in interp and modelling.
Field-based interp made easier with fast and accurate section drawing.
Central interface for all data.

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Environmental Services Company, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No