AspenTech: Optimizing Process Manufacturing

Maximize refinery margins by optimizing planning and scheduling work processes. aspenONE Planning & Scheduling is a collaborative optimization solution that improves refinery operational and financial performance by integrating production planning, operations scheduling, assay management, and blend scheduling. Take a look at what this suite of powerful products can do to prevent margin leakage.

Stay connected to your planning solution—anytime, anywhere. Aspen PIMS Platinum allows planners to evaluate multiple scenarios quickly and easily with new visual tools. On demand access with Microsoft Slate allows for on the go decision support. Learn More		Create an integrated workflow with unprecedented results. With the new release of aspenONE Planning and Scheduling, integrated workflows, easier searching, and quicker feedstock evaluation all add up to driving more profitability for your refinery.

Schedule all activities from one platform. Aspen Petroleum Scheduler is an event-based, single blend optimization tool that supports scheduling of refinery activities for global refineries. It integrates with Aspen PIMS to achieve greater profitability through more accurate planning and scheduling. Learn More		Leverage new rundown blending capabilities. Aspen’s Refinery Multi-Blend Optimizer allows schedulers to use all rundown components continuously, respect tank and inventory constraints, and more easily meet product requirements. Learn More

Find the perfect fit crude. Assay Management in Aspen PIMS now features search technology, making it easy to retrieve specific crudes or identify those with properties in selected ranges. Add, modify, recut, or delete assays from within Aspen PIMS, with automated updates to your PIMS tables. Learn More		Evaluate feedstocks faster than ever. Now planners and traders can better identify the profit potential of a new crude relative to an existing crude basket. Easily make economic comparisons of the reference case crude basket and new scenarios, with an efficient, tightly integrated workflow. Learn More

Better predict crude properties with molecular characterization. Introducing assay management with molecular characterization in Aspen PIMS. This patent-pending innovation helps planners better characterize their crudes for enhanced property prediction. Better property prediction yields better crude purchase decisions.		Get up to speed faster with Online Training. Learn basic features with computer-based training and instructional videos through “Getting Started” animated tutorials. Expand your skill set with brief 3-5 minute “Best Practice” tutorials. All from within the product. Learn More

What Customers are Saying

“Aspen PIMS Platinum is the way that planners can make decisions,making it faster and easier. The post solution analysis capability has been significantly enhanced with this new set of features including 2-d and 3-d graphs. Seeing the LP solution space visually is a sea-change in planning analysis and should result in better plans and greater profitability.”

Paul Gallagher, Refinery Planning Manager, Samsung Engineering

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