Valve life cycle costs : a guide to LCC analysis for valve systems

Valve life cycle costs : A Guide to LCC analysis for Valve systems

With the spreading of the notion of sustainable development, the manufacturers take more and more in consideration the economic and environmental impacts in ail the stages of the life of products.

Notions as total cost of ownership, total cost of use opened the way to the life cycle costing (LCC) who aims at analyzing in a global way the cost of design, manufacturing, commissioning, maintenance and decommissioning of an installation and equipments which are associated with it. This process is also allows to guides the choices of design of the products as well as the complete engineering of the Systems.

The present guide aims at bringing a help to the design of new piping systems and to the improvement of existing systems. It includes a complete model for the life cycle costing of a valve system. The calculation model provided with in the form of a CD-ROM takes place in the continuation of the work "Pump life cycle costs : A guide to LLC analysis for pumping systems" edited by the AFPR, Hydraulic Institute and Europump.