AspenTech: Optimizing Process Manufacturing

Maximize scheduler productivity. Aspen Olefins Scheduler reduces the time the scheduler spends assembling and validating data required to start scheduling. Early visibility into potential disruptions such as issues with inventories, receipts, shipments, or quality enables olefins scheduler to quickly analyze and take corrective action.		Create event-based, real time schedules. Event-based scheduling allows relevant events (receipts, shipments, furnace decoking, etc.) to be represented exactly when they happen, so there is a match between teh schedule and field operations. More accurate assessments of inventory positions and product qualities are realized.

Compare scenarios with more agility. Aspen Olefins Scheduler allows schedulers to compare alternative scenarios in detail (inventories, flows, qualities, furnace run length and coking), including the economic impact, both in day-to-day and in cumulative terms.		View status of each furnace. Aspen Olefins Scheduler's Furnace Bank Gantt chart automatically indicates the status of each furnace (Normal/Decoke Header) with customizable color codes, as well as the total number of furnaces connected to each header, allowing the scheduler to quickly see and edit the furnace schedule.

Make reliable and accurate predictions. Aspen Olefins Regression Calculator is a companion utility to Aspen Olefins Scheduling that enables the development of olefins furnace non-linear regressions to estimate yields and other pyrolysis parameters based on furnace geometry, feedstock composition and operating conditions such as coil outlet temperature, steam-to-oil ratio, and flow rate.		Enable collaboration and enhanced visibility. Aspen Olefins Scheduler multi-user environment improves coordination between schedulers as well as other departments such as logistics, sales and marketing, and trading. Schedules are easily shared for more effective decision support.

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