Aspen Process Sequencer
Capture and uniformly implement best practices for efficient process transitions
Efficient grade transitions are a must for profitable operations. Many modern processes involve highly complex process configuration changes. Reducing transition time and waste requires consistency across all locations, shifts, and operators. With Aspen Process Sequencer, best practices in transition management can be captured and uniformly implemented across all operations. Aspen Process Sequencer is a core element of AspenTech’s aspenONE® Advanced Process Control applications.
Features
- Presents the task plan with task lists, progress indicators, and operator instructions
- Graphical workflow shows the timing of events in the sequence
- Coordinates operator actions with automated tasks
- Executes recipe items in a specific order
- Manages multiple grades
- Manages various steady-state conditions
- Monitors the process during a stage transition
Benefits
- Reduce the total transition time, while maintaining constraint limits throughout the grade transition
- Create pre-conditions that allow engineers to specify how and when a recipe item and its parameters will be invoked
- Provide uniform methods for grade transition and reduction of transition times
- Ensure consistency in the settings that are used for a product and the steps taken to move the process from steady state production of one product to steady state production of another product
- Maximize production rates to unit performance constraints
- Maximize and standardize the use of procedures and best practices