Plant & Process Design (EPC)
On a consumption plan there is no seat to hand back, only a meter you cannot see.
Open iT meters AVEVA E3D and PDMS, Hexagon SmartPlant and Siemens COMOS by consumption, not just by checkout, including AVEVA’s token model, where a session bills from first use until midnight. See the bill forming through the month, and forecast demand up to several months out, so you staff up and demobilize an EPC project without carrying a peak that is already over.
- Watch AVEVA token and SmartPlant / COMOS consumption form, per user and per day
- Forecast the next project phase up to 18 months ahead
- Reclaim idle AVEVA seats where the license manager allows
An EPC project staffs up to a peak, then demobilizes. On a consumption plan the meter keeps running long after the work is gone.
Plant and process design increasingly runs on consumption, not seats. On AVEVA’s token model, elapsed time is measured from first use until midnight, so a session opened after lunch and left running bills a full token day whether or not anyone is at the keyboard. There is no idle seat to hand back. There is a meter, and by month-end it is a number on an invoice.
Buy for the peak and you carry it into the next renewal. Buy for the average and the next mobilization is short-handed. Without a forecast, both mistakes are expensive.
The vendor’s invoice arrives once the month is already spent, so the token time lost to idle sessions is paid for before anyone sees it, and the only question left is how big next quarter’s bill will be.
Was Open iT leistet
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Meter consumption, not just checkouts.
Elapsed-time and per-user reporting shows AVEVA token consumption and SmartPlant and COMOS floating usage as it accrues, so you see what is driving the bill in terms you can still act on.
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See the bill forming, not after it is sent.
Consumption is reported daily, per application and per user, so idle token time is visible mid-month while you can still cut it, instead of on the invoice when you cannot.
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Forecast the next phase.
LicensePredictor projects usage up to 18 months ahead, per application, so an EPC team mobilizes and demobilizes against a forecast instead of a guess, and a finished project’s demand does not set the next renewal.
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Reclaim idle seats where the manager allows.
AVEVA E3D and PDMS support suspend and resume, confirmed in the Level 3 test record, so an idle seat goes back to the pool and resumes in place. Aibel used exactly this, with threshold email alerts, across Europe and Asia.
The vendor invoice vs the Open iT consumption view
| Without Open iT | Mit Open iT |
|---|---|
| The token bill after the month is spent | Consumption forming day by day, per user and application |
| One number for a project that already peaked | An 18-month forecast for the phase that is coming |
| A denial found when someone complains | An email alert the moment a denial happens |
| A session that bills whether or not anyone is working | Whether anyone is at the keyboard before the token runs to midnight |
Aibel, an EPC contractor building onshore and offshore processing plants, is a published Open iT customer. It used LicenseAnalyzer Level 3 harvesting and threshold email alerts to manage concurrent licenses across teams in Europe and Asia.
— Aibel
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How much token time is burning with nobody at the keyboard?
For AVEVA token licenses, elapsed time runs from first use until midnight. A session opened after lunch keeps counting long after the designer has gone home. Enter your teams to see how much of that elapsed time is idle.
Days on which each user opens at least one token session.
Leave blank to see hours only. This tool does not know your commercial terms.
Your design teams
One row per group with a similar working pattern. Replace the example values with your own.
idle token-hours per month across all teams
- Elapsed token time with nobody working
- 0%
- Idle token-hours over 12 months
- 0
- Monthly cost of that idle time
- 0
- Users across all teams
- 0
Wie dies berechnet wird
Elapsed hours per user per day = 24 − first-use time. Idle hours = elapsed − hands-on hours. Monthly = idle × users × working days. 12-month = monthly × 12.
For AVEVA tokens, elapsed time is measured from first use until midnight (Open iT terminology definition of Elapsed Time).
A calculator shows what your assumptions imply. Open iT shows what actually happened: AVEVA Cloud usage is collected per user and per host, polled hourly at 5-minute samples, so you can see which sessions ran to midnight. docs.openit.com — AVEVA Cloud
Aibel, an energy and offshore contractor, harvested unused licenses with LicenseAnalyzer Level 3 and set up threshold email alerts; license utilization exceeded 99% license usage efficiency. Aibel customer success story
Results are estimates from the values you enter. They are not an AVEVA invoice and do not reflect your contract terms.
Häufig gestellte Fragen
Can Open iT meter AVEVA’s token model?
Yes. Elapsed time is measured from first use, and for AVEVA tokens that runs until midnight. Per-application and per-user reporting shows the consumption behind the bill as it accrues.
How far ahead can Open iT forecast demand?
LicensePredictor projects usage up to 18 months ahead, per application, which is the window most EPC procurement and renewal planning runs on.
Can you reclaim seats on a consumption plan?
On token and consumption models the main lever is visibility: cutting the idle time that bills. Where seats run on a supported manager, such as AVEVA E3D and PDMS or FlexNet-based tools, idle seats can also be suspended and resumed.
Which plant applications are supported?
AVEVA Cloud (E3D, PDMS), SmartPlant License Manager (SPLM), Siemens Automation License Manager (COMOS) and AutoCAD Plant 3D (via the Autodesk connector) are metered in v10.2; AVEVA E3D and PDMS are in the Level 3 test record. CAESAR II is not yet confirmed.
Related Open iT Resources
Right now an AVEVA session someone opened after lunch is still billing toward midnight, and next quarter’s mobilization is being planned on a guess. Aibel made its consumption visible and recoverable and pushed utilization past 99%. Open iT gives you the same live meter before the next invoice instead of after it.