Plant Operations
AspenTech's Plant Operations solutions provide information and intelligence to help you schedule, manage, control, and optimize plant operation, enabling you to improve the performance and profitability of your plant and achieve manufacturing excellence.
These solutions drive operational excellence by helping you:
- Capture "real-time" data from many disparate sources throughout the operational
and planning environment (ERP, lab and quality systems, shop floor control systems,
etc.)
- Visualize, monitor, and analyze the "real-time" data from both an operations and
a business perspective
- Visualize and present information to users based on their specific roles helping
them make better, faster decisions
- Plan, schedule, and make day-to-day/minute-by-minute operating decisions in a manner
that optimizes the various operational and business trade-offs
- Electronically capture, manage, monitor, and enforce the execution of Standard Operating
Procedures (SOPs) and recipes
- Automatically capture product genealogy (track and trace)
- Analyze historic and "real-time" data to identify continuous process improvement
opportunities
Benefits include:
- Improve throughput and operational agility
- Improve production yields and quality
- Reduce equipment downtime and increase availability
- Improve energy management /reduce energy consumption
- Support "green" initiatives, better manage and reduce emissions, reduce carbon footprint
- Improve compliance to health and safety regulations
- Reduce product liability risks
- Improve customer service
- Increase inventory turns
AspenTech's Plant Operations solutions help you manage these key business processes:
- Energy Management - Reduce operating expenses and support "green"
initiatives, reduce your carbon footprint by reducing and better managing energy
consumption
- Production Management & Execution - Drive operational excellence
through an integrated suite of MES solutions to monitor, control, and analyze manufacturing
operations
- Planning & Scheduling - Improve operational efficiency through
improved planning and scheduling of the production and distribution process, providing
the agility to respond to changing market demands and emerging opportunities
Support "Green" Initiatives While Lowering Operating Costs and Energy Consumption
AspenTech Solutions for Consumer Products enable you to design processes that consume
less energy, reduce emissions, and decrease the amount of virgin raw material required
to produce the product. In addition, you can leverage the solutions to ensure that
operational personnel follow the process in an environmentally friendly, cost-effective
manner.