Usage Cost Planning

This budgetary table was made to help supervisors budget future FACTS usage. The numbers are derived from all FACTS usage in the past 2 years, it shows the average user costs per year, separated by technique and by usage category. Normal is our median usage, a heavy user requires in-situ work or long duration experiments and a super user is technique focused or is the lone user for a full groups work. This table does not take into account future inflation of prices.

 

Predictive Usage (S$) (Per person per year)

 Normal UserHeavy UserSuper User
TEM User (per year)*1,8505,25014,250
XRD User (per year)3508001,450
SEM User (per year)6001,3002,600

*If FIB is required for sample preparation, please add on 40% more