Aspen InfoPlus.21®
Comprehensive information management system for real-time manufacturing processes
Aspen InfoPlus.21 collects and stores large volumes of process data for real-time and historical analysis and reporting. This process data repository forms the core of a plant and enterprise-level manufacturing integration platform, uniting data across process control, manufacturing operations, and business systems. With rich calculation, analysis and visualization tools and an object-oriented real-time application development environment, it delivers a flexible and effective performance management and analysis solution. Aspen InfoPlus.21 is a core element of AspenTech’s aspenONE® Production Management and Execution applications.
Features
- Powerful, flexible history repository with direct record access – Supports multiple history repositories and custom objects, facilitating storage and retrieval of important records. Direct record access is provided through search tree technology. It also allows for the utilization of common nomenclature across the enterprise while providing sufficient space to build plant hierarchy into the name.
- Analysis – Aspen Calc™—a wizard-driven, scalable calculation engine—aids users in building calculations without the need for programming languages. Advanced Analysis and Intelligent Decision Support tools provide a foundation for operational excellence initiatives.
- Visualization – A rich set of desktop, web, and portal-based visualization tools address specific plant and enterprise needs.
- Object-oriented, real-time application environment – Enables users to quickly create maintainable, business-specific, real-time applications (based on Aspen SQLplus™).
- Access to models online – Aspen InfoPlus.21 works with Aspen Online Deployment™, providing connectivity to online engineering models for real-time decision support without programming.
Extensive Excel add-in capabilities
- Enables users to create and configure IO records directly from Excel
- Provides templates for system migrations
- Provides the ability to manage user-specified fields in tag records
- Facilitates the use of standard Excel tools to write and publish charts
- Support for workflow standards – AspenTech makes extensive use of standards to facilitate reuse of information and reduce total cost of ownership. ISA-S95 and WitsML standards are employed, covering workflows in production data management, production analysis, and drilling.
- Interfaces and integration – OPC and PRODML are incorporated into Aspen CIM-IO™, a standard interface platform allowing AspenTech’s real-time databases and applications to read and write real-time and historical data from DCSs or PLCs and other types of real-time databases. An OPC UA client server is also available to communicate with platforms that support it.
- Enterprise-wide security - Aspen Framework security allows for an enterprise-wide security solution based on Microsoft’s Active Directory.
- Integration platform - AspenInfoPlus.21, in combination with Aspen Integration Infrastructure™ and Aspen Manufacturing Master Data Manager, facilitates enterprise information synchronization and information flow through integration with supply chain and ERP systems, and persisting a master data model.
Benefits
- Reduces the time to assess root causes of problems, resulting in faster and better business decisions
- Improves engineering workflow processes and control strategies (e.g., to prevent upsets, increase capacity, or simplify environmental regulation compliance), as well as enhances decision support, customer service, cost-efficiencies, and operating performance
- Provides quality information with a high degree of reliability to increase plant efficiency and global enterprise productivity
- Enables information to be brought to the experts from remote locations, leveraging skills and lowering cost
Products Included with Aspen InfoPlus.21
- Aspen Calc™ – general calculation engine
- Aspen CIM-IO™ – standard interface platform for interfaces to plant measurements
- Aspen SQLplus™ - real-time applications development
- Aspen Event.21™ - process events and alarms
- Aspen Health Monitor – health monitoring of multiple Aspen InfoPlus.21 systems
- Aspen KPI Builder – real-time, operational key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Aspen Real-Time Statistical Process Control Analyzer - statistical analysis, SPC and SQC
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