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GENERAL
SETROUTE is a Bechtel registered trademark for an
interactive computerized electrical component
tracking system for use on a PC computer accessed
via Microsoft Windows 95. The SETROUTE
program is currently used on many projects;
including refinery, power, industrial, and mining.
SETROUTE is an effective and easy-to-use tool for
controlling and organizing electrical cables,
raceways, equipment, terminations, jumpers and
cable routes.
SETROUTE is an Engineering Tool akin to multiple
electrical design drawings all in one data base.
SETROUTE supplants some design drawings, is
used in conjunction with design drawings,
significantly reduces “clutter” on design documents.
The program is easily adaptable to the continuing
evolution of design changes, construction activities,
status updates and reports, and easily defines system
parameters.
SETROUTE OVERVIEW
SETROUTE enables multiple users to view, update,
and extract information both at the project and at the
design office via a Wide Area Network (WAN) link
or if the design is at the site via the sites LAN (Local
Area Network).
Electrical Field Engineer’s will be assigned specific
User Rights which are predetermined by the
SETROUTE System Administrator. These User
Rights are changeable as the project installation and
design effort evolves but can only be changed by the
System Administrator. Specific User Rights
generally allow:
• Inputting, revising, updating design data.
• Inputting jobsite installation data.
• Installation card generation.
• Report queries
Upon an initial Log-on, a Main Menu Bar will be
displayed showing:
• File
• View
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• Report
• Tools
• Window
• Help
If, the Tool Bar is preset this too will be displayed.
If not, activation of the Tool Bar is accomplished
through the View Menu.
Most standard Window’s conventions and shortcut
keys are typically used throughout the use of
SETROUTE with the notable exception that each
specific “pull down” menu “inactivates or activates”
certain Tool Bar applications.
SETROUTE contains preset tables, formulas, and
calculations and is updated as national codes or local
project site specifics warrant or are required.
Additional features include the capability of metric
conversions or foreign language compatability for
overseas applications.
Use of “floppy” diskettes is not recommended or
required as all pertinant data, calculations, tables,
and formula’s are existing and all entries can be
performed through the main menu screens.
Printers, page set up, specialized reports, queries,
and interaction with additional software programs
(wire labels, bar code scanners) or the use of preset
standard reports or user specific (self generated
reports) are also possible.
ON-LINE HELP
Self Help is available throughout the Help Menu
which activates the Help Contents and Help Topics
windows. F1 key in a field allows access to specific
self help. Use of the Help button in a dialog box
accesses general help about the box.
Main Menu
From the Main Menu, pull down screens that the
Field Engineer will generally be given User Rights to
support day-to-day installation work activities are:
• Browse (review data without authorization to
make changes) read only capability
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• Report(s) (generate commodity installation
cards, general or summary level reports)
• Jobsite Feedback (input daily installation data)
• Analyze (update data and recalculate from
preset calculations)
• On-screen inquiries (print data tables or on-
screen information)
If, the Field Engineer is given designer User Rights
than the ability to input, revise, or modify to suit
field installation design data will be authorized. If
not, the required modifications, input, changes, or
revisions to suit field installation must be
accomplished by the appropriate design engineer.
ON-SCREEN INQUIRIES
The user can individually call up to the screen any
cable, raceway, equipment, termination, or jumper
currently residing on the database. From this screen
the following general information will be displayed:
Note: As a precursor the user will be required to
input the desired component identifier (i.e. cable,
equipment, raceway number).
Cable - Raceway vias, equipment links, applicable
notes, reel number, cable code, length, route,
To and From points, system identifier.
Raceway - All included cables, vias, size, fill, system
Instruments or Equipment, general notes.
Equipment - All associated cable, raceway, Purchase
Order, links, general notes.
Jumper - Type, links, block points, equipment, vias.
Termination - Cable number, block points, conductor
size, color, instrument or equipment number
Use of the inquiry menu only enables the user to
view or print selected information.
Significant additional data associated with the
inquiry screen(s) provides:
STATUS ANALYSIS
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All components are automatically assigned a
primary or a secondary status based on their design
or construction progress. The program controls a
component’s status and will not advance it or allow a
regression in status level unless all predetermined
criteria have been met or approval is granted. With
status information, a tool is provided for tracking
quantities of electrical components released by
engineering, received by the jobsite, and installed or
as-built. It also makes it easy to determine when an
attempt is made to revise an installed/as-built
component.
Primary statuses are entered by Design Engineering
or their designees. Examples of primary statuses
that will be found in the database and their
associated meaning are:
• I - Inferred. Equipment or cable id’s that are
added from the equipment or cable modification
modules not directly but by computer inference.
• P - Preliminary. Design information lacking.
Examples: Termination information not finalized.
Cable not routed. Raceway to and froms or size not
identified. Equipment layout drawings not known.
“P” status requires Design Engineering to complete
the design for that commodity before it can advance
to the next higher primary status level. The field
cannot install, order, (request installation card) or
update to any electrical commodity with a primary
status of “P”.
• R - Released from Design Engineering to the
field for installation. Commodity can be revised,
deleted, changed, or modified by design with no
adverse affect on the field installation. R primary
status commodities reflect the design for that
commodity is complete and can be requested by the
field for installation.
• J - Jobsite Received. This represents that the
field has planned to install (installation commodity
card has been requested) or is in the process of
installing this commodity. This is the “lowest level”
of construction installation activity for the
commodity and “flags” the Design Engineering
Group that the field should be notified before any
revisions, changes, modifications, or deletions to this
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commodity can take place to ensure no adverse affect
on installation takes place. Status is automatic by
SETROUTE database when commodities
“installation card” is requested by the field for
installation.
Note: Status is current to the field data base and
upon jobsite transfer of data (via WAN) will
automatically update the design data base of this or
any other commodities field status changes. Also,
note the reverse is true for design additions, changes,
revisions, deletions to the design data base will upon
transfer of design data to the field data base update
the field data base of any design changes made prior
to the data transfer. In scenarios where on the spot
notification is necessary the field or design will
communicate via phone or fax.
• C - Construction Complete. Work is
construction completed on this commodity. This
status is a manual field entry to the database and
upon “posting” the sites data base entries will
automatically update the current status of the
installed commodity. Any future revisions, changes,
modifications to this commodity (at this primary
status level) represents a potential rework situation.
Commensurate with the Primary Statuses are their
associated Secondary Statuses of a commodity.
These secondary statuses further inform the user of
the commodities progress whether related to design
or installation.
Design secondary statuses include:
• H - Hold. Mostly associated with an “R”
primary status to inform the field that a given
commodity is “not constructable” at the present time.
This prevents installation activities to proceed. Any
hold must be removed before further action on this
commodity can proceed.
An example of a design Hold would be: termination
data at time of initial design entry was correct and
has since been changed requiring reentry to reflect
the new termination information. This Hold entry is
a manual entry and can be only added or removed by
users given design user rights.
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• O - Overfill Authorized. Associated mostly with
raceway (tray or conduit) whereby the defaulted
SETROUTE pre-calculated values (tables) on cable
“fill” have been waived by Design Engineering.
Overfill conditions that are authorized are usually
based on supporting engineering calculations.
Examples of an authorized overfill condition would
be: tray is overfilled and an ampacity calculation
was performed determining no adverse affects on the
installed cables and its intended function were
identified.
Field Engineering (or the craft) is not authorized to
arbitrarily violate cable “fill” defaulted values.
When this condition exists SETROUTE will
automatically “Flag” the raceway, notifying user of
this overfill condition. An example of how the field
could inadvertently create an overfill would be where
they installed a cable into the wrong tray/conduit
even if it was the same “service level” and upon
updating the data base to reflect this change the
preset defaulted values became exceeded.
• B - Block. Also commonly associated with
raceway (tray or conduit). Represents that “no”
additional cables are authorized to be design routed
into that raceway commodity. SETROUTE will not
allow the user to route into any “B” status raceways
unless B status program hold is withdrawn (trays or
conduits).
B status is also a manual design entry and is usually
assigned to a raceway that is close to overfilling or is
and supporting calculations determine any additional
cables will impact the design. Addition and deletion
of the B status is also only authorized by users given
design authorization.
• G - Associated with cable routes. Represents
“Gap”. The SETROUTE data base has detected a
disconnect in the vias associated with a cable pull or
route. “G” must be removed prior to generation of
the cable pulling card or actual cable pull. This
status could be associated with any primary status.
An example of a Gap status is when the cables
raceways links were changed and the cables route
was not updated to reflect the “new cable path”.
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• N - Associated with terminations. Permits
terminations where no terminal block is necessary.
Example: Three (3) wire motor terminations where
it is understood how the cable is terminated.
• D - Delete. Associated with components that
were deleted after being initially statused in the data
base at any primary status level. Commonly used for
recordkeeping activities that provide historical data
on components.
Example: Raceway that was installed completely by
the field than due to design change was not required
and subsequently removed or abandoned in place.
Note: Deleted electrical commodities can be left in
the data base or expunged but only by the System
Administrator. An adverse affect to blanketly
expunging Deleted commodities that were installed
or partially installed is the consequences to the fields
installation unit rates (cost code accounts) which are
directly tied to the SETROUTE data base for cost
reporting and quantity tracking purposes. Once
completely removed from the data base they were
technically never installed and any cost reports
generated via the data base will not reflect their
existence. This is not an field issue for primary
status commodities that are J status.
Secondary statuses are also associated with
construction status levels to provide the design group
with a more comprehensive idea of where a
particular commodity is with respect to its
installation stage or is statused to assist the field
supervisors in maintaining construction unit rates
with respect to cost codes and accounts for given
electrical commodities.
Associated with Construction installation activities
where a secondary status is identified include:
• O - (Zero) Associated only with cables.
Signifies that a cable has been cut (to a
predetermined length) but not pulled. This “flags”
the user that the cable has been cut off an assigned
cable reel and is ready for pulling.
An example of this secondary level is manually
entered by the field where the project utilizes a
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“cable cut shop” and prior to pulling cable(s) their
pre-cut and statused as being ready for pulling.
Associated with this secondary level is the
identification of from which cable reel the cable was
cut from. Cable reels are identified and entered on
the cable card (and entered also in the data base) for
cable reel management, service level compatability,
and cable inventory controls.
• 1 - Signifies that a commodity is “partially”
installed or completed. Secondary construction
status of 1 is always associated with the primary
status of C.
Example associated with raceways are:
50’ of a 300’ designed raceway is installed and
reported for cost code and unit rate purposes. This
enables the field to receive “credit” (earned hours)
against the cost code for the raceway. For status and
reporting purposes of partial raceways the raceway
installation card or a daily “quantity reporting” sheet
can be turned in and the installed footage manually
entered into the fields data base. In addition, the
primary status will change to C representing
complete but the secondary status will be manually
entered to reflect 1 representing “partially complete
or installed”. Until final completion of the raceway
the secondary status will remain 1 and any
additional partial footages (reported) are manually
entered. The final footage, when totally completed,
will be entered and the secondary status will than
be changed to reflect that the raceway is completely
installed.
An example of partially installed (secondary
construction status of 1) cable(s) is cables that are
pulled and coiled.
An example of partially installed equipment (though
extremely rare) is when multiple MCC’s sections are
required to be installed and the field turns in the
equipment card (or daily quantity reporting sheet) to
receive (earned hours) against the equipment cost
account.
Terminations and jumpers secondary construction
statused as 1 is not good field engineering practice
and is discouraged from actual practice.
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• 4 - Signifies that the commodity is “totally
construction complete”. All actual quantity installed
footages have been reported and entered in data base.
Additional secondary construction statuses are
available for input but traditionally these are the
most commonly used and entered. As a guideline
statuses 1 through 4 are construction statuses and 5
through 7 are start-up or testing statuses. Upon the
field assigning a construction status of 4 it is
generally understood that the commodity is available
for start-up/testing.
REPORTS
Through the Reports Pull Down Main Menu the
Field Engineer can obtain the following type reports
useful in daily or weekly applications or can
customize for a specific use, generate new reports, or
perform multiple group type reports.
• General - Bulk reports related by specific
commodity. Filter feature enables user to more
clearly define parameters to avoid long or wrong
type reports. Additional feature is “changed since”
which filters only revised or recent data base
changes. Bulk reports are common during the early
stages of a project for review of overall work for a
given area, building, or drawing. Example of a bulk
report would be all the raceway for a given drawing
or filtered by what’s installed and not installed.
• Summary Level - Cables, Raceway, Trays or
Equipment. Additionally can filter for specific
information or can customize by having report
presented in a particular way (e.g. primary selection
of a cable by cable code than secondary selection by
cable identification number). Summary level reports
are useful for data strictly related to non-descriptive
information. Sample summary reports generated are
cable or cable cost code, by system, raceway code,
installed or to go reports.
• Summary Level Specific - Raceway size, by
systems, cable associated with equipment or tray,
trays with barriers. Filter feature enables secondary
sort criteria to exact report needs without all the
detail being grouped together like by cost code than
by commodity.
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• Commodity installation cards. Orders specific
or “groups” of commodity installation cards, orders
all revised cards or “changed since a specific date”
for a specific commodity. These are the cards the
craft will utilize for installation activities.
Upon issuance these cards subsequently go to J
primary status any changes requested/required by
design could generate a revision card for the specific
(effected) commodity that has undergone a change.
The Field Engineer will be required to ensure the
new revision(s) of these effected cards are given to
the responsible electrician foreman and previous
issues or the original issue card is thrown away.
Revised cards for completed commodities
(archived/filed) may also be required to be replaced.
Note: It is usually good field engineering practice to
discuss “up front” with the design engineers when
“you” as the field engineer would like to receive a
“revision” installation card. If, left to the designers
to determine what to issue revision cards for they’ll
issue you what you don’t necessarily care for and it
becomes a “card tracking” nightmare.
As an additional good field engineering practice
ensure the designers “address” in the “installation
cards” notes available section of the card what was
revised or changed otherwise you’ll spend to much
time trying to determine what was changed from the
card that is already issued.
As an minimum guideline the following should
always generate a revision card:
Raceway Revision Cards Required when any of
the following conditions change:
1. Raceway size (tray/conduit) changes
2. Raceway equipment or tray links (node/section
number) change
3. Tray barrier width or service level changes
4. Pull box size changes
5. Raceway type changes (e.g. EMT to RSC)
6. Raceway has been abandoned or deleted when at
primary status of J or secondary construction
status of 1 or 4.
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Cable Revision Card Required when:
1. Cable route has changed (ensure a note against
the card addresses what has changed in the
route) an example note could be: revised last
three “to end” tray vias. With that simple
explanation you’ll know what the change was.
2. Service level or cable code changed
3. Cables from or to ends change
4. Cable was abandoned or deleted when the
primary status is J or construction secondary
status is 1 or 4.
5. Quantity of cables changes (example where
cable is 3-1c #2 and the quantity changes to 4-
1c #2).
6. In the rare application where the designer has
specifically identified from what cable reel to cut
from and than changes the reel number.
Termination Revision Card Required when:
1. Termination points or sides change.
2. Spare pairs/conductors or shields must be landed
after originally were spared.
3. Color codes or wire numbers change.
4. Equipment from and to ends change.
5. Jumper cable code changes.
6. Terms are deleted or spared out.
• Report by “Commodity Code”. Summary report
of commodity by code. Example: Cables 3c#12, all
2” raceway.
• Specialty Reports - Conduit Tree Diagrams
which is a report depicting all raceway(s) from a
tray or trays, or by equipment. Equipment
Connection Diagrams (may supplant the use of
termination wiring diagrams or drawings) which is a
detailed report showing wiring termination points
for a specific piece of equipment. Bulk Cable
Pulling Reports - report used in the development of
cable pulling packages identifying raceways that are
utilized by various cables utilizing similar raceway
or tray routes originating or ending at common
equipment or locations. Cables by Equipment
Report - report enabling a comprehensive listing of
all cables by equipment codes, type, area and also
enabling the cable to be filtered to meet selective
requested criteria.
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• Defaulted Reports: these reports are defaulted
standards that can be customized and saved for
specific application or use.
• Customized Reports - a report that can be made
from scratch to suit the users need and
subsequently saved for future applications.
Reports can be viewed prior to printing to ensure
they are what the user desires this is recommended.
JOBSITE FEEDBACK
This Sub Menu, from the Tools Main Menu, enables
the Field Engineer the capability of entering into the
data base the quantities resultant of daily or weekly
installation. From the installation card (or via daily
quantity reporting sheets for partial installation) the
Field Engineer manually enters the installed
“footage or eaches” quantity and assigns a secondary
Construction Status which automatically updates all
the affected commodities. Example: statusing a
conduit that was “J” (jobsite received) to a
construction status of C-4 and inputting the installed
footage as 10’ will update the raceways, equipment,
and cable reports associated with this conduit
showing that the conduit is “complete” and is 10’
long, this will update cable card pull footages to
reflect “actual footages” versus “design estimated
lengths” for this raceway only. Any additional
raceways that a given cable utilizes still reflect the
“design estimated length” until their inputted into
the database.
Note: The field engineer must be mindful of
partially installed raceway statuses since the cable
footage length upon recalculation will automatically
update the footage based on the C1 (partial) and not
the C4 (construction complete) henceforth the actual
pull length (footage) will be longer. This is an
important reminder when supervision (or foremen)
desires to perform pulls when all the cable vias are
not complete (pull and coil), wants cable pull
packages generated by the field engineer, desires to
begin bulk cable pulling activities, or when your
ordering more cable based on to go quantities or
forecasts.
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Note: It is a good field installation practice to use
SETROUTES actual cable lengths as reliable
estimated lengths (for long cable pulls > 150’, cable
uses multiple trays/raceways or vias) even if all the
commodities are installed. These cable pulls should
always be walked down by the field or the engineer
to acquire actual cable lengths prior to cutting cable.
(Reference Handbook Section 9 Cable for more
detailed reasons why).
In addition, by using a bar code scanner (or by using
a preset Windows pic-list) the Field Engineer can
scan the cards individualized barcode to preclude
manually entering the components identification
number. Also, this menu is used for cable reel
inventories and jobsite invoicing.
After all (or individual) entries are inputted the data
bases defaulted values are reviewed and
“recalculated” and all applicable data base record
commodities are updated. Resultant recalculation
values that cause “errors” based on these defaulted
values are “flagged” by an error report and require
immediate or subsequent corrective response.
Example “error report” conditions include:
• Overfill violations
• Cables entered against the wrong cable code or
reel.
• Cable footage entered exceeds reel length or
“cable cut length”.
The Tools Menu also has the capability to transfer or
receive feedback data to the master database in the
design office.
FILL ANALYSIS
SETROUTE uses a variety of fill calculation
methods that are internally defined and typically
follow the National Electrical Code table(s). The fill
calculation method used is determined by the
raceway primary service level. The primary service
level must therefore define the actual calculation to
be performed to arrive at the calculated fill and the
overfill flagging conditions. Fill and overfill
calculation methods can also be externally defined
by the SETROUTE System Administrator by
changing the defaulted values to suit site specifics.
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Since there are cable trays, conduits, transits, and
special raceways, SETROUTE allows a separate
calculation method to be defined for each type at a
given primary service level.
SETROUTE calculates and displays two sets of
raceway fills - one for all the cables in the raceway
(design) and one for the installed cables only
(construction).
RACEWAY WEIGHT ANALYSIS
Raceway weight analysis can be performed on all
raceways. The program calculates a raceway’s
weight per unit length by summing the weight per
unit length of the raceway, included cables, and any
additional load listed for the given raceway. Two
sets of raceway weight per unit length are calculated
and displayed - one for all cables in the raceway
(design) and one for the installed cables only
(construction). This weight analysis is used to
support the civil engineering discipline in
determining “raceway or tray” hanger design and
calculations.
CABLE LENGTH ANALYSIS
Engineered cable lengths are calculated by summing
the lengths of the raceways through which the cable
is routed. The user typically assigns a “tail” value
for each cable code on the database. A cable that has
been routed through raceways whose “engineered
estimated” lengths total 200 feet and whose cable
code has a defaulted tail value of 8 feet will have its
engineered cable length calculated as 216 feet (the
tail value is applied to both ends). The engineered
length will be retained against the cable until the
cable is rerouted or until the actual length value has
been inputted after the cable is pulled or partially
pulled. This feature is useful when used in
conjunction with cable summary reports for
identifying potential cable shortages, cable reel
footage on hand quantites, during development of
bulk cable pulling packages, and during installation.
CONTINUITY ANALYSIS
Cable route continuity analysis performs a
comparison between the sequence of raceways in a
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cable route and the raceway-to-equipment and
raceway-to-raceway linkages defined in the database.
The analysis can be performed when routing cables
or for selected single and bulk cable identifiers. The
following irregularities can be identified:
• First/last raceway in the cable route is not linked
to the cable’s “from/to” end.
• Raceways which are not linked to adjoining
raceways.
• Routes in reverse sequence of the cable’s “from”
• Gaps in an existing cable route which are
invalid.
The program allows the definition of specific
raceways to be defined as “FIELD ROUTED”.
These raceways are always considered to be
continuous between all linkages.
AREA/ZONE DEFINITION
Areas and their associated zones can be defined by
the user for the purposes of identifying physical or
logical regions. Zones, which may be associated
with more than one area, can then be assigned to
individual raceways and equipment. Through these
associations, the program can identify all cables,
raceways, and equipment in any given zone.
This same procedure is used for assigning cables,
equipment and raceways to startup systems. Again,
through these associations, the program can identify
all items applicable to startup systems. This is
especially useful when completing systems for
turnover.
SETROUTE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
The System Administrator initially sets up the
SETROUTE project configuration, through the Tools
Main Menu then the Admin and Config sub menu’s,
by modifying the defaulted values to suit the site or
client specifics that differ from the SETROUTE
defaulted values. This Administrator also assigns
the Security levels (applicable User Rights) for each
individual that will utilize the SETROUTE program
for that project. Typical users are:
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• Design Engineers
• Field Engineers
• Craft Supervision
• Management
• Project Controls Group
• Client representatives or “Guests”
In addition each individual will be assigned a
specific Log-on identifier.
Each site also will be uniquely identified as a part of
the initial Log-on identifier securing access to
unauthorized users.
SETROUTE ELECTRICAL DESIGN
Design Engineering “user rights” granted to the
Field Engineer typically enable all or most of the
same capabilities. The most likely “design user
rights” granted to the Field Engineer will enable the
performance and execution of:
• Data entries for Equipment, Cable, Raceway,
Terminations, Jumpers.
•
Example Entries or Changes that will be entered
include:
• Equipment: Layout Drawing, Purchase Order,
Cable and Raceway links, terminal points and
termination changes.
• Cable: Service Level, Raceway Vias, Cable
Type, Cable System, Equipment, Instruments,
Correct cable routing “Gaps”.
• Raceway: Cables, Raceway Size, Type, Facility
or System Number, Links, Equipment, Layout
Drawing, Assign and route “Field Routed” conduit.
• Jumpers: To and From Points, Block Number,
Equipment Number, Spares.
• Terminations: Equipment Number, To and
From Points, Block Number, Spares, Cable Number,
System Number, Assign colors.
• Trays - Update Links, Barrier width’s, Size.
• General Notes: Specifics to Commodity are
noted. Example: Tray Barrier Width, raceway
wrapping, box sizes.
Specific SETROUTE Uses
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As a field construction aid SETROUTE is adaptable
by enabling each site to “tailor” their user and report
needs. Useful examples of “tailoring” SETROUTE
for the myriad of projects and their useful
applications are:
Installation Card Miscellaneous Fields
Each SETROUTE commodities installation card
contains “miscellaneous entry” fields. These fields
as configured by the System Administrator are
reserved for the designer or the field. The fields
“miscellaneous fields” are helpful for assigning
“cable pull packages” to enable reports to be
generated depicting multiple cables that can be
pulled in mass, pulled in accordance with common
cable codes, common service levels, common from or
to equipment points, or common vias.
Assigning cables to a “pull package” aids
supervision and the cable pulling crews in
supporting system schedules, “installation unit rates”
and reduces significantly “indirect costs”
(scaffolding, man-lifts) by enabling the pulls to be
consolidated together versus pulling onesies and
twosies.
Another use of these fields is assigning megger or
crimper identification for projects where this is a
requirement.
Design uses of these fields identify branch circuit
numbers (breakers), vendor reference drawings and
purchase orders. Tray covers, seals or hazardous
classified area notification.
Commodity Codes
Associated with each commodity are inputted codes
which enable reports and descriptions to be
generated by specific code reference. Raceway
codes, equipment codes (electrical or
instrumentation), cable, color (terminations),
jumper.
With some specific exceptions, all codes should
contain an associated Cost Code account number.
Since SETROUTE is tied to the sites cost code
reports and data base status of a specific
Rev. 0 Electrical Handbook
 Bechtel Corporation 1997.
commodities installation unit rates, quantities, and
total quantities can be downloaded using reports by
cost code account.
Of particular use is the SYS or SUSYS fields. These
fields are System identifier (SYS) or start-up system
number (SUSYS). Once the mechanical or electrical
systems are scoped (Reference Section 15 of
Handbook) the cables required to support that system
can be entered and through the SETROUTE
program raceways required to support the cable
installation are automatically assigned the system
which will be turned over the earliest ensuring that
the raceway for the cable will be installed.
Assigning equipment to systems is also capable of
being accomplished through SETROUTE. From this
reports can easily be generated by system or start-up
system numbers to determine what is specifically
required to support a given system for turnover.
SETROUTE INTERACTION
SETROUTE programmatically interacts with other
Bechtel Project Works or Microsoft Windows
Programs enabling a myriad of activities and/or
work executions to be performed without manual
data transfer, loading, or redundant entry.
Of prime interest is the CAIES (Computer Aided
Instrument and Electrical System) program for
instrumentation and instruments. Certain projects
have specific engineering delineations between
Electrical and I & C Electrical (Petro-Chem). The
instrumentation design engineers will input the
cables and terminations (into SETROUTE) and
related (instruments/devices data) into the CAIES
program and an automatic transfer of data between
the two programs will be accomplished to support
the electrical instrumentation portion or effort with
assistance, as necessary, from the design electrical
engineering discipline (i.e. routing of raceways).
Traditionally, the field electrical engineer (and craft
supervision, electricians) assume the responsibilities
in overseeing the installation of these CAIES entered
electrical commodities (raceways/cables).
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