Equipment Configurations
Set up the pumping units and rod groups, and configure run templates for Automated Design to simulate across. Configure this once per organization and every design run picks from it.
Automated Design only proposes equipment you marked as available. Configurations is where you define the available catalog. Do it once and every design run across your organization selects from the available list.
Build the catalog from a supplier price list, from your own inventory, or from both. Enter list prices for equipment you would purchase. Enter a lower value, or $0, for units and rods already in your yard. The cost weighting then favors designs that use what you already own.
Open it from Automated Design in the sidebar, then Configurations, or from Manage in the Equipment Configuration section of the New Run form.
The page has three tabs.
Pumping Units
Each row is one unit available to your team, with its price. A Full Design run picks up to four of them to search across. A Workover run picks one.
Click Add Pumping Unit and fill in:
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Type / Manufacturer / Model | Selects the unit from the catalog. Each choice filters the next |
| Purchase Price ($) | What the unit costs. Use a lower value for units in inventory. Feeds the cost weight that re-ranks designs |
| Additional Costs ($) | Installation, foundation, freight; anything on top of the purchase price |
Air Balanced and Hydraulic units take extra inputs: minimum cylinder volume for Air Balanced units, and turnaround, acceleration, and deceleration times for Hydraulic units.
The Class column shows the geometry family the engine uses for kinematics and torque: Conventional, Mark II, Enhanced Geometry, Air Balanced, Beam Balanced, Long Stroke, Hydraulic, or HGC.
Crank Holes
Most units support several crank holes, and each hole gives a different stroke length and a different maximum speed. Crank holes are chosen per run, not here: the New Run form lists every hole for each unit you selected, with its stroke and speed limits.
A hole left unchecked is not evaluated. If a unit has no configurable crank holes, the engine uses its built-in maximum SPM.
Every extra unit and every extra crank hole multiplies the number of scenarios in a run. Add only the units that are actually available, not the whole catalog.
Rod Groups
A rod group is the set of rods a run may build a string from: which diameters, which grades, and what they cost. A run uses exactly one rod group.
Type a name in the New rod group name field and click Add. Then click Edit to configure it. The editor has two parts.
Rod Configuration
Choose which steel, fiberglass, and sinker rods the group offers:
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Rod Type | Steel, Fiberglass, or Sinker Bar |
| Manufacturer | The supplier, or Any manufacturer to leave it open |
| Grades | One or more grades per row. Add rows with Add Grade |
| Diameters | The diameters the engine may taper across |
| Stress Calc | The allowable-stress method applied to rods from this row |
Corrosivity Grade Assignment sets whether Mild or Moderate service applies, which changes which rods are available to the design.
Tick Include fiberglass rods to let the engine put fiberglass in the upper string, and add sinker grades if you want sinker bars considered.
Pricing
Prices drive the estimated cost of every design, and therefore the ranking.
| Section | What to set |
|---|---|
| Steel / Fiberglass / Sinker Rod Pricing | Price per rod for each diameter and grade |
| Guide Pricing | Guide type, guides per rod options, guide price per rod, and Max Guide Load (lbs) |
Guide defaults come from the guide catalog. Set a maximum guide load for the guide you selected, otherwise designs that need guides cannot be priced.
One rod group can be marked Default. New runs pre-select it.
A design with no price for one of its rods shows Not priced in the results. No cost weight is applied to it, so it can rank above cheaper designs that are priced. Fill in every diameter you enabled.
Run Templates
A run template pins the design policy your team agreed on: evaluation criteria, constraints, frictions and damping, and optionally the default rod group and pumping units.
Templates are shared across the organization. On the New Run form, picking a template pre-fills the pinned fields; everything left blank in the template stays open for each run to set.
To create one, set up a run the way you want it, then click Save next to Run template on the New Run form. In the Run Templates tab you can see how many policy fields each template pins, who created it, and when it last changed.
One template can be marked Default so new runs start from it.
Fill only the fields you want to pin. A template that pins everything forces every run to be identical; a template that pins only the safety limits still lets each well set its own production target.