'Feezing' (pay-per-use)

Many customers work on projects and don't have the corresponding program for a specific calculation. Buying this program is only economical if it is used quite frequently.

LV offers the solution!

How does this work?

All available LV programs being worth 150.000,- EUR can be installed on your local PC. Instead of checking licenses as when purchasing software, 'feezing' unlocks program actions after billing via internet or locally by SmartCard (similar to a phone card or cash card).

Depending on the purchased basic package on CD-ROM you have access to:

1. Pressure Vessel Design (AD 2000, Euronorm, ASME, TRD), Piping (WRC),  FEM module (Calculation of Local Stresses at the Nozzle Area by using the Finite Element Method)
   
2. Process Engineering (LV Heat Atlas, heat exchangers, properties) + Hydrodynamics (Pressure drop, ROHRNETZ)

Please use our order form incl. pricing (PDF, 31kB) for your order.

Not available via FEEZING are:

1. MESK       (multiple component condenser)
2. DDB          (phase equilibria) as PROPER extension
3. MOVAK    (vacuum nets, cryo pumps)

The programs are packed into packages according to the different fields to give you an easy overview. (PDF, 50KB)

Prices for one project in general?

After receiving your order we open a personal customers' account on our server for you with the amount of money you ordered. When using a program, fees are billed for the following program actions:

1. Starting the program
2. Saving program data as project
3. Printing results

Your LV account is charged with the according fees either via Internet or by a SmartCard, which is directly connected to your local PC. The SmartCard can be loaded via Internet or by sending the reloaded card to you by mail.

You can use your account as long as you want and you can transfer money to it as often as you like. Money can be transferred in advance by wire transfer or by VISA (Master) credit card.

2. Calculation costs

4. Accounting

Package 1 or 2 is required (for pricing see order form). The percentage costs for the calculations are based on the list price of the programs (see price list)

Please use our order form (PDF, 31kB) for your order.

Special Campaign

You'll get a refund of 50% of your costs for calculating of the last 6 months with a module package if you buy the corresponding module package. The maximum refund is 50% of the list price. The single fee for the CD is not refunded.

How am I billed?

When executing the first billable action, the program checks if a SmartCard is connected to your PC. You can choose if you want to be billed by Internet or SmartCard.

If you are using FEEZING via Internet, a connection to the LV server is established and the latest price list is loaded .

To keep the internet connection time as short as possible, a certain amount of money is reserved to your local sub account. You can request any amount of money ranging from the necessary amount for calculation and the amount you have on your account.

Information about your personal account / local sub-account

You see a warning on screen if there is only little money left on your account. The amount of money you need can be paid in advance by a simple banking transaction or directly by VISA credit card during our usual office times.

You do not need an internet connection as long as if there is enough money on your local sub-account. Every transaction is made via your local sub-account

After terminating the program, the still existing amount of money on your local sub-account is retransferred to your LV account. This requires an internet connection or the SmartCard. If you abort this transaction or do not want to connect to the internet, the money will be transferred at your next FEEZING session.

Frequently occurring misunderstanding:

To be able to use all LV software on request you have received a CD-ROM with all LV programs. You are working locally with the version you have received and not with the latest version.

Advantage

Absolutely internet independent work with SmartCard or only short-time internet connections for billing program actions while FEEZING via Internet.

Please note: If you have Internet access you can update your software for free by pressing a single button within your purchased version. Especially for strength calculations in pressure vessel design there are frequent changes in the codes (AD2000/European Standard, etc,). That's why it is important to keep your software updated.
An upgrade of the LV Heat Atlas software from 9^th edition to 10^th edition is not free!

LV-programs available at the moment (PDF, 50KB)

The programs are combined in packages according to the different fields. Some programs are not available for FEEZING, but are available as stand alone single user or network version.

The LV-team is pleased to help you with special questions: