The World Refining Association (WRA) spoke with Don Busiek, SVP of Asset Performance Management at AspenTech, about how asset performance management solutions can help companies achieve their digitalization and sustainability goals.

The World Refining Association (WRA) continues its discussion with Don Busiek, SVP of Asset Performance Management at AspenTech. They delve into the current talent recruitment challenges faced by the Energy industry and explore the role of digitalization in addressing this issue.

GSK, a leading multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, consistently seeks innovative solutions to develop new vaccines and specialty medicines efficiently and with top quality. In pursuit of this goal, they sought a solution to address pH variability in bioreactors, aiming to mitigate risks to product batches and reduce process drift and equipment failures.

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Unexpected disturbances and shutdowns can severely impact any manufacturing facility. The AspenTech APM 4.0 portfolio uses agents that can be replicated quickly and easily across all plant assets to assure production and avoid unnecessary maintenance. Learn how APM 4.0 delivers an all-inclusive approach to efficiency, productivity and safety to support operational excellence in plant operations and the bottom line for manufacturers.

Today´s executives are faced with the complex challenge of maximizing profitability while meeting sustainability goals. Using APM 4.0 to identify efficiencies across the organization can drive operational excellence, which can lead to significant advancement of sustainability objectives.

Process industries like bulk chemicals, specialty chemicals and pharmaceuticals strive to optimize production processes with existing resources and data to remain competitive and profitable. By implementing product and process quality analytics solutions like Aspen ProMV® and Aspen Process Pulse™, manufacturers can achieve operational and financial benefits while also improving fouling, product yield and overall plant efficiency. Watch this video to find out how leading chemical and pharmaceutical companies have saved up to 25% in costs and increased yield by up to 2%.

Early returns from an ARC Advisory Group survey indicate that optimizing plant operations performance and eliminating process upsets are considered a critical component of asset performance management (APM) systems.

Asset-intensive industries are faced with the dual challenge of achieving operational excellence while meeting sustainability goals. With advanced Asset Performance Management (APM) 4.0 solutions, companies can minimize equipment failures, process disruptions and unplanned downtime that can cost them up to $50 billion dollars a year.

When Ferring Pharmaceuticals wanted to move from batch to continuous manufacturing, they found that laboratory assays were too time consuming to provide meaningful feedback for real-time control, and 100% product quality inspection was not possible.