Mechanical Insulation's Key Estimator
The Most Productive Estimator You Can Hire!
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Introducing
MIKE Video on YouTube |
Cut estimating time in half. Avoid costly extension errors. Estimate using built-in productivity
factors, or customize your own tables. Calculate base bids and alternates easily and quickly. Develop cost and bid price
by section or by total job. Create an accurate bill of materials for each project. Ready to use. With minimal training,
you’re up and bidding.
Designed Specifically For Industrial and Commercial Mechanical Insulation Contractors…
A Faster Way To Prepare More Accurate Estimates...
The more jobs you bid the more you win. That’s the insulation contractor securement numbers game.
But, to make money at it in a competitive environment, you have to start with an accurate take-off and estimate.
That’s why Comput-Ability got together with mechanical insulation contractors and created MIKE™, Mechanical
Insulation’s Key Estimator.
MIKE™ is a versatile, computerized management tool designed especially for the mechanical
insulation contractor who wants to gain the competitive edge that comes with bidding faster,
better, smarter.
This state-of-the-art system was perfected by mechanical insulation contractors with the help
of computer experts. They spent more than two man-years developing the original system complete and flexible enough
to handle any mechanical insulation take-off, estimating, and material/labor reporting task-and do it quickly and
accurately. And, in the 15 years since, the system has been enhanced and adapted to any change in both the
mechanical insulation and computer industries to remain the premier estimating system for mechanical insulation
estimators.
How it works...
MIKE™ is a complete mechanical insulation take-off/estimating system that uses a
standard personal desktop or notebook computer, custom built specific software with optional
digitizers.
MIKE™ has many takeoff options available. From using a scale and keying it
directly into the system, to using a digitizer with a 'Stylus' or pen to transfer take-off data
from project blueprints through the digitizer into the computer, or using electronic drawing and
measuring takeoff quantities on your screen with a mouse. Takeoff is at least three times as fast
and much more accurate. As you work, you see your take-off on your monitor. So you can double-check
to make sure you haven’t omitted an item or accidentally entered one twice.
The system comes ready-to-use, loaded with a database containing productivity
factors you can use or easily modify for each product application according to the construction
environment: commercial or industrial, union or non-union, or region of the country, plus the system
comes with a complete database of manufacture and fabricators pricing for all standard mechanical
insulation products and accessories.
MIKE™ has many takeoff options available. From using a scale and keying it
directly into the system, to using a digitizer with a 'Stylus' or pen to transfer take-off data
from project blueprints through the digitizer into the computer, or using electronic drawing and
measuring takeoff quantities on your screen with a mouse. Takeoff is at least three times as fast
and much more accurate. As you work, you see your take-off on your monitor. So you can double-check
to make sure you haven’t omitted an item or accidentally entered one twice.
Click Here: Material Specific Labor Production Tables
If a manufacturer's list prices change, download the new price tables from
our web site and your system is updated.
Click Here: Manufacturers and Fabricators (partial list)
Customize your database...
The system can be customized to your specific situation. You can easily modify both
labor and material estimates by total job and/or by section. This allows you to bid smarter by playing
“what-if” on material prices or labor rates, applying factors for difficult job-site situations, even
calculating what your competition might be bidding.
Create a complete bill of materials for each job...
You can print out a total material requirement report for purchasing-insulation,
jacketing, fittings, and accessories. Or you can develop breakdowns by floor, section, or type of system,
for job-site material distribution or inventory control. There’s a complete audit trail, from detail
breakdown forward to total project requirements.
Create a complete labor analysis for each part of the job...
MIKE™ gives you the power to calculate man-hour requirements for each part of the job,
and for the total project. You can use the standard productivities built into the database, or modify
these to fit your own labor rates or job particulars.
MIKE™ makes bid alternates a breeze...
Accurate estimating of alternates to base bids is quick and easy, with just a few
keystrokes. Each alternate can be reviewed individually, and/or combined with the total bid submittal.
Then, MIKE™ lets you print out summary reports of the base bids plus the alternate “add-ons” of “deducts”
that correspond to the secured project.
Handling large jobs? Heavy estimating workload?
Two or more MIKE™ systems can be networked or estimates can be combined from different
locations. Then, when you have a really big job to estimate, you can distribute the take-off work among
different estimators in an office and even if they’re thousands of miles apart and centralized the bid
submittal.
Comput-Ability Puts It All Together
Now, think how MIKE™ can help you win...
- By reducing your take-off and estimatin time.
- By increasing the accuracy of your bids.
- By speeding calculations of bid alternates.
- By developing accurate bills of materials.
- By providing complete labor cost reports.
Recommended MIKE 2000+ Options:
Visual TakeOff+
GTCO Digitizer and Digital Plan Takeoff Software.
Visual TakeOff+
GTCO Digitizer and Digital Plan Takeoff Software.
GTCO Super L VI Digitizer
Brochure (PDF)
The Super L VI is the next generation of the well-known Super L Series—the family
of digitizers that set the standard in large-format digitizing. Professionals in construction
estimating will appreciate the Super L VI’s added flexibility and improved performance.
SLIV Recommended Size:36"x48" Active Area
SLIV Recommended Options:36x48 GTCO SLIV Plan Hold Down
Pedestal (see below) Cursor: Pen Stylus
Dakota Digitizer Pedestal (Model DKT-XJ5A)
Smooth-turning crank with precision rack & pinion.
Gas spring adjusts table height from 28.5 to 44.5 inches.
Tilt angle from 0° to near 90°.
Includes Levelers or optional Casters (4-Caster Set recommended, see below).
4-Caster Set (Model DKT-XJLC4)
Fits DKT-XJ5A Digitizer Pedestal.
Includes (2) Locking Casters and (2) Rolling CastersClick here for other Dakota Pedestal Options