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Due to the extensive
changes in the business processes and the input data that is used
by OSCAM to build a cost estimate, it is not possible to load an
OSCAM Ship v7 data record directly into OSCAM Ship v8. A Conversion
tool has been provided that will convert Ship v6 and v7 data records
into a format that can be loaded into OSCAM Ship v8. More…
The database
architecture has been significantly improved and there are no
longer separate databases for Primary and Detailed data, instead
all of the data for a scenario is held within the same data record.
Many sectors have radio buttons and/or check boxes that allow
the user to select the level of detail that they wish to use.
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Ship introductions
are now entered in a table that includes copy and paste functionality.
The maximum number of ships in a class has been raised from 30
to 60 ships. A new Regular Introductions form provides a quick
way of defining ships that are introduced at regular intervals.
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Inputs for
the lifespan of a ship are now easily accessible, along with the
weight and disposal costs which are now all found on the Program
Profile form. More…
Alternative
options have been added for the way that fuel use is calculated.
Underway Mode is the original method of specifying the proportion
of time spent Steaming Underway, Steaming Not Underway and Cold
Iron. This option has been enhanced compared with Ship v7. More…
In Deployment Mode the ship operational profile can be divided
into Deployed and Non-Deployed time, which can have different
measures of days per month Steaming Underway, Steaming Not Underway
and Cold Iron. Deployed periods can be represented on the Operational
Profile chart. More…
Changes in
operational intensity can now be more widely reflected in operating
and support costs. Additional input options have been added to
Ordnance costs and O/I Maintenance actions and costs, and Unscheduled
Depot Actions that allows these to be specified in terms of cost
(or actions) per Hour Underway. More…
OSCAM Ship
v8 has a dedicated Personnel sector. In addition to Officer and
Enlisted crew there are now Warrant Officer, Civilian Mariner
Class 1, Civilian Mariner Class 2, and Contractor. There is also
the option to use a table of grades for each personnel category.
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OSCAM Ship
v8 has a new input that represents the number of crews per ship.
Salary, training and indirect costs are incurred for all crews,
but supply costs are only incurred for the onboard crew. More…
In addition
to crew, OSCAM Ship v8 allows other unit level personnel to represented.
This can be expressed as an annual cost or in terms of number
of personnel and pay rates for each personnel type. Training and
indirect costs can also be incurred for other unit level personnel.
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OSCAM Ship
v8 has a dedicated sector for training. This includes annual costs
per person by category for crew and other unit level personnel.
It is also possible to include annual training costs for the program
as a flat annual cost or via a table that allows different costs
to be allocated each year. More…
The available
categories for O/I Level Maintenance have been simplified. The
I-Level Ashore and I-Level Afloat options in v7 have been amalgamated
into a single I-Level option for v8. This has been done to match
the level of data that is generally available.
For the detailed
representation of O-Level and I-Level Maintenance, the tabs within
each maintenance level have been changed such that the Unscheduled
and Scheduled tabs are amalgamated into a single Maintenance Actions
tab. This matches the way in which VAMOSC captures the data. More…
The Simplified
option allows maintenance costs to be specified in one or more
of the following formats: $K/Ship/Year, $K/Month IFT (In Fleet
Time), $K/Steaming Hour Underway. This allows cost estimates for
maintenance actions to be developed earlier in the life a program
without having to determine detailed data on action rates, issue
costs, etc.
The Detailed representation is similar to Ship v7 and uses action
rates to drive labor effort and costs. More…
OSCAM Ship
v7 had a graphical aging factor on action rates in the Detailed
data record. In Ship v8 the Primary data record has aging factors
on action rates and an aging factor on parts costs. There are
also factors that allow the ship deployed status to impact action
rates. The factors apply to both Simplified and Detailed options.
More…
The Overhaul
Profiles chart that was used in Ship v7 has been improved and
made more flexible, with the addition of Deployed periods. The
resulting chart is now called the Operational Profile Chart and
is found in the Program Profile sector. More…
Unscheduled
Depot Maintenance now has Simplified and Detailed options. The
simplified option allows OpTempo impacts to be included. More…
A Simplified
representation of Scheduled Depot Maintenance is available. This
applies an average annual cost for each ship and a percentage
of a ship's life that it is in Scheduled Depot Maintenance. Moderate
representation can be used for each Availability type and allows
high level costs to be specified for repair, modernization and
refuelling. Detailed representation is similar to the format used
for OSCAM Ship v7 but has been made more intuitive. More…
For Availability
type a choice can be made of whether it is undertaken at a Government
or Contractor depot, or a mixture of the two. More…
Continuous
Depot Maintenance is new to OSCAM Ship v8. It allows the representation
of depot maintenance that is undertaken outside of a depot when
a ship is alongside. It does not reduce Materially Available Vessel
Days. More…
The Indirect
sector is new to OSCAM Ship v8. It allows a representation of
indirect support costs and indirect personnel costs. More…
The Other
Sector has been expanded to add more options for representing
Software Maintenance and ETS costs. Each can be represented as
a mixture of program costs, cost per ship or using a table that
allows different costs to be specified for each year. ETS costs
now differentiate between Government and Contractor. More…
An inflation
appropriation can now be associated with each Throughput item.
This allows Throughput data to be updated automatically when the
Cost Base Year is changed and also allows it to be included in
the calculation of Then Year $ results. More…
Annual cost profiles have been created for Training, Installation
Support, Personnel Support, ETS and Software Maintenance costs.
These are areas where Throughput profiles have often been used.
These profiles are now available in the appropriate sectors, and
the cost impacts shown in the relevant parts of the results tree.
It is now possible to undo previous data changes. An undo button
is used to undo the last change. Previous changes can be selected
from a pull-down list. Alternatively, double-clicking on an input
will show the traditional dialog to select values from Primary
or Reference data records, to which an extra tab has been added
to allow previous data values to be selected. Data tables also
have a list of undo items.
A re-do button and pull-down has also been added to reverse undo
actions. The list of undo and re-do actions is cleared when a
new data record is loaded. More…
Use of the Powersim simulation package with OSCAM is now optional
and does not need to be installed on the host PC in order to be
able to use OSCAM Ship v8. Powersim is not started automatically
with OSCAM (improving start-up times) and will only be loaded
if a non-Warp Speed simulation run is selected. More…
The required
length of a simulation run is automatically calculated based on
the year of the last ship introduction and the ship lifetime (plus
1 year). This can be manually overridden to allow for shorter
runs that do not cover the whole of the program lifetime, or if
Throughput costs are required to extend beyond the retirement
of the last ship. More…
The cost breakdown structure has been organized using the CAIG
2007 structure and numbering. Some of the output lines have changed
to reflect the business processes that are represented in OSCAM
Ship v8. More…
The results
tabs at the bottom of the results table now display a popup menu
when right-clicking the mouse on them. This allows quick access
to view/change the results description, delete a results set,
and to specify whether or not that results set is displayed on
the graph. More…
The Uncertainty
Tool has been extended to allow more than 20 inputs to be selected.
It also now allows a variety of probability distributions to be
used. To help in the selection of a probability distribution a
graphical display will show the shape of the distribution for
the selected parameter values. The input data for an Uncertainty
run is now saved as part of the input data record rather than
the workspace. More…
Results that
are saved via the option in the File menu now retain more decimal
places. This allows more accurate calculations to be applied in
Excel when exporting the results.
When Copying and Pasting the results from the OSCAM results tree
into Excel, the pasted data will use the displayed number of decimal
places and the displayed layout. More…
The default
OSCAM Databases directory structure is no longer placed in the
Program Files directory. The installation process now places the
Databases directory structure in the users My Documents directory
(in Windows 2000 or XP) or Document directory (in Windows Vista).
The top level directory is called 'OSCAM' with a sub-directory
called 'Ship v8 Databases'. Note that these locations may be changed
during the installation process. More…
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