As all companies have been challenged by the current economic and health crisis, the successful recovery requires a new view toward future development and growth with metrics that consider broad and more long-term goals. Featured in Hydrocarbon Processing, AspenTech’s Paige Morse shares considerations for building future resiliency that center around digitalization.

This article appeared in the 2018 American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) Conference Daily (Oct 2018) that highlighted the Operational Planning, Control and Automation Technologies session during which Chevron talked about the closed-loop, real-time coordination of a refinery middle distillate system, the benefits and key takeaways.

The 2015 Paris Agreement and other international climate change accords have helped raise global awareness of the need for countries to take urgent action to combat climate change. As companies continue to focus on sustainability, a common theme is taking shape around the role of digitalization as a key enabler. In fact, a recent ARC Advisory Group survey revealed that 75% of respondents rated digital transformation as highly important for achieving sustainability goals.

2015年《巴黎协定》和其他国际气候变化协定有助于提高全球对各国需要采取紧急行动应对气候变化的认识。随着企业继续关注可持续性，围绕数字化作为关键推动因素的作用，一个共同的主题正在形成。事实上，ARC咨询集团最近的一项调查显示，75%的受访者认为数字化转型对于实现可持续发展目标非常重要。

Learn how AspenTech refining solutions improve profit margins and operations across the downstream industry value chain. This infographic provides an overview of the benefits many companies have realized.

What is a Digital Twin and what does it do? View this infographic to learn what a digital twin is and how it provides important insight on system performance enabling companies to optimize operations and reduce costs by maximizing uptime with real-time recommendations.

目前，炼油厂和石化厂都在积极寻求减少生产计划、调度和实际操作等环节间利润漏损的方法。AspenTech®的动态优化技术Aspen GDOT™，加之其一流的统一生产优化环境Aspen Unified™，能基于不断变化的经济状况调整工厂运营，从而实时优化生产。

With the introduction of centralized performance monitoring in aspenONE APC V11, organizations can improve operating margins across the enterprise by providing greater visibility into APC benefits and performance. New non-linear capabilities in Aspen DMC3™ enable you to extend controller features and functionality to non-linear processes.

Braskem, the largest petrochemical company in Latin America, has independently implemented several APC projects on ethylene units across their organization. Join Livia Tizzo, Process Control and Automation Engineer at Braskem, to see how Adaptive Process Control in Aspen DMC3 was used to improve their processes.

Upstream organizations are increasingly leveraging data analytics, machine learning and other advanced modeling approaches to drive automation, productivity and a lower break-even price of production. However, leadership has struggled to understand where to make investments in data enablement. Join AspenTech’s Ron Beck, Industry Marketing Director and Anum Qassam, Senior Product Manager, to gain clear insight into how upstream companies can turn data into dollars.