This dialog appears by clicking on the Include / Exclude Equipment button in the Operating Cost Adjustments Dialog: Facility Tab.
If you chose to estimate the equipment dependent cost for all procedures in this section using the EGR (Equipment Gross Rate) factor, the program will calculate the total equipment time for all procedures executed in this section, tally them up, and then multiply by EGR to estimate the cost. However, oftentimes, you may wish to exclude certain equipment from contributing to this ‘equipment total time’ (i.e. the equipment time used to estimate in lumped EGR-based way the operating cost). Perhaps you have included a procedure in your process description that does not represent a real step (e.g. a mixing or splitting operation). Or, perhaps you believe that the equipment-dependent cost elements for a particular piece of equipment are negligible (i.e. not represented fairly by the EGR factor) and therefore you don’t want to over-charge the process by including this equipment’s time. This dialog presents a list of all pieces of equipment used for the execution of all procedures in this section and you may explicitly dictate which equipment’s time should be excluded. Note that by default all equipment time is included in the calculation of ‘total equipment time’.
Note that this dialog is not accessible if the equipment-dependent cost for this section, is estimated on an itemized basis.