All chemical facilities have opportunities to reduce manufacturing costs, including newer, state-of-the art plants, older plants and those in between. Leading global producers have demonstrated reduced energy consumption, increased yield and higher reliability by simply improving operational practices through the application of advanced technology.

Roch Gauthier, Sr. Director of Product Management at AspenTech, looks at why executives need to view scheduling as a vital part of the business decision-making process.

There is a challenge for many refinery and chemical companies to impove the analysis proess and raise performance. The inside story of operational intelligence lies in rich thin visualization and analytics capabilities that improve production execution, enabling process manufacturers to quickly identify and resolve operational issues.

Learn how Strategic Estimating Systems leverages past projects when using Aspen Capital Cost Estimator (ACCE) to significantly increase the accuracy of estimates. See how you can easily calibrate and index ACCE to: incorporate historical data using best practices, improve the approach to estimating projects in different regions and increase efficiency while developing a consistent workflow.

Eliminate the guesswork with reliability modeling that quantifies risk.

In depth look at the Smart Tune engine- The new Sequential Multi-Objective Optimization (SMO) technology is a step change from traditional APC optimizers. The new algorithm eliminates any LP cost tuning by enabling users to explicitly specify the APC controllers’ objectives.

Global specialty chemicals producer turns to aspenONE® Production Management and Execution (PM&E) to implement procedural control, efficiently moving raw materials and avoiding process upsets.

Virtually all multinational, diversified chemical companies are expanding their emphasis on specialty chemicals. Competition is intensifying, resulting in both margin degradation and faster product commoditization while customers are further exacerbating the situation by demanding “faster, better and cheaper” products. Learn how to leverage production scheduling to improve customer satisfaction and further take advantage of flexibility inside the plant.

The goal of APC implementation in the chemicals industry is simple: to maximize margins while meeting customer expectations. Aspen DMC3 delivers faster time-to-benefits resulting in a much higher return on investment. Learn how APC is key to achieving operational excellence.

This blog is the third in the PSC Best Practices Blog Series. Ruben explains the challenge of scheduling with spreadsheets and how an advanced scheduling solution provides better collaboration and more time for evaluating different scenarios.