This blog is the second blog in the PSC Best Practices Blog Series. Patrick explains how advanced planning technology and best practices can help 'weather the storm' of the volatile energy industry.

The success of an APC program is measured in many ways, but the overall success is integral to achieving operational excellence. For example, an APC program should safely capture benefits during testing, capture all the potential benefits with aggressive full scope controllers, and create an APC culture and organization. Download this white paper to learn more about these concepts, as well as several others, which are key to a successful APC program.

This blog is this first of the PSC Best Practices Blog Series, it introduces the importance of planning and scheduling and how difficult it can be to come up with the best decision.

Effective KPIs and KPI hierarchies are one of 6 Keys to Improving Operational Effectiveness. A properly designed hierarchy of KPIs, aligned throughout the layers of the organization, will ensure that performance of lower level KPIs will produce corresponding improvements in the highest level KPIs.

The infrastructure supporting manufacturing operations in bulk chemicals has become pretty robust. The plants tend to be well instrumented and monitored. Sure, there are improvements to be made but when you compare the infrastructure prevalent in continuous plants with that of batch plants, you might find a pretty substantial gap.

Both EPCs and owner-operators need to look at better estimating business processes and systems. That spreadsheet approaches are a major project risk and bottleneck.

Why APC should be implemented on secondary units. Includes sections on environmental emissions control, fuel gas networks control and optimization, sulphur complex control and steam networks control.

The value of dynamic modeling across the asset creation lifecycle.

This blog presents Aspen Economics as the next evolution in managing projects with cost as the fifth dimension (3D + time + cost) to improve on time, on budget projects with higher quality designs. Positions AspenTech as an innovator.

Pan Pacific Technologies was seeking a rigorous approach to validate the technical and economic feasibility of its proprietary algal conversion concepts. Through innovative use of Aspen Plus and Aspen Process Economic Analyzer, they developed successful technical and economic models with applications in both academia and industry.