Cost engineering provides businesses with techniques to manage costs throughout a project from planning to estimating to developing affordable products. It helps businesses control costs, make products affordable for consumers, and make better decisions to be competitive. Cost engineering software makes it easy to generate estimates, track resources and costs, use past data to inform estimates, and capture cost models. This software supports industries like power, oil and gas, and chemicals to estimate costs for project phases from feasibility to construction and manage costs, value, planning, risk, and contracting to ensure on-time project completion within budgets.