AspenTech Open Interfaces for Process Simulation and
Modeling
AspenTech is helping to deliver the power of component software
and open standard interfaces in computer-aided process
engineering.
Specific Interfaces:
Benefits of Open Standards
Promoting open interfaces to our software tools results in a
number of important benefits to industry:
- Elimination of inefficient and error- prone manual data
transfer
- Efficient re-use of customized modelling components
- Encapsulation of difficult legacy in-house software within
standard components
- Inclusion of company-proprietary thermodynamics, process models
and process knowledge while keeping corporate best practices
confidential
- Reduction of software maintenance and training costs
- More readily available niche expertise from researchers and
specialist companies
- Industry pervasive delivery vehicle for 3rd-parties - low cost
access to the market.
These benefits will lead to the availability of more robust and
comprehensive process simulation and modelling solutions
incorporating the intellectual property of licensors, equipment
vendors, research organizations, and specialized suppliers.
Necessary for future growth in the face of shrinking product
margins, better modelling will enable the process industries to not
only reach new quality and productivity levels, but also make
better business decisions:
- Reducing operating costs
- Better managing capital expense
- Compressing time to market
- Achieving higher return on capital employed
- Improving business predictability
AspenTech is helping to deliver the power of component software
and open standard interfaces in computer-aided process
engineering.
Open Interfaces Philosophy
Standardized Open Interfaces are one of AspenTech's four Core
Objectives for its Engineering Software Business:
- Provide a user friendly Aspen Engineering Suite across
Process Industries enabling Process Asset Lifecycle Management
- Accelerate the delivery of innovative and new
simulation and modelling capabilities
- Leverage and protect customer
investments
- Promote Open Standards
Why are open interface standards so fundamentally important to
us?
Process Simulation and Modelling tools are essential for getting
process designs and products quickly to market. Although we feel
that the technical breadth of our technology is unsurpassed in the
process simulation and modelling business, the process industries
remain extraordinarily complex. No one software vendor, asset
owner, licensor, engineering company or academic has all the
answers.
Our open process simulation software standards are designed to
allow seamless communication between various pieces of software
from different sources. By employing our open simulation tools as
the backbone, it is possible to assemble customized computational
tools with a minimum of effort.
Not only do our open standards enable lower-cost simulation due
to ease of re-use of simulation and modelling components, they will
also drive innovation across the process industries. Novel and new
solutions to previously unsolvable problems will be realized
through increased plug-and-play simulation interoperability, rapid
integration of new ideas, and proliferation of 3rd party technology
developers.
We believe that we can impact the process engineering software
industry in a most profound way. True to AspenTech's Core
Objectives, and critical to your business success, our goal is to
become the standard in process asset lifecycle management
throughout the process industry's engineering, production
operations, and business lifecycles.