aspenONE Planning & Scheduling for Refining & Marketing

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Maximize refining margins through standardized work processes based on integrated planning & scheduling

aspenONE™ Planning & Scheduling, AspenTech’s integrated solution, allows you to unify your planning and scheduling processes through common process and blend models, helping you to capitalize on feedstock flexibility and market opportunities as they occur.

Using aspenONE Planning & Scheduling, you can:

  • Translate your plan into an events-based schedule
  • Monitor planning model accuracy and plan vs. actual on a daily basis
  • Keep your planning and scheduling models evergreen
  • Effectively coordinate Production and Supply & Marketing, using a forward-looking schedule
  • Perform additional work processes without additional strain on your people or your processes

The benefits in real terms:

  • Increased revenue and refinery throughput from reductions in process unit slowdowns and component stock outs
  • Enhanced safety and reliability through improved scenario-driven event analysis to identify and avoid problems in advance
  • Improved product specification visibility
  • Higher margins through better crude selection including ability to efficiently use lower-cost ”sour” crudes
  • Standardized and consistent work processes (knowledge management)
  • Reduced demurrage through improved event-based scheduling
  • Improved inventory positions through better scheduling and tank visibility
  • Reduced operational overhead and IT system total cost of ownership
  • Upgrading of low-value components while optimizing use of high-cost blend components

AspenTech boasts the petroleum industry’s largest global installed base of planning solutions and has delivered solid results for more than 400 sites and thousands of users worldwide. aspenONE Planning & Scheduling for Petroleum is the integration of three role-based applications: AspenTech’s industry-leading Aspen PIMS™ planning application, Aspen Orion XT™ plant scheduling application, and Aspen MBO™ blend scheduling application.

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