Think about estimating as a new way for business success for an E&C.

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 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.

The value of dynamic modeling across the asset creation lifecycle.

Quick action shortens the duration of a production problem and yet few companies’ measure and track the response times of their organization.

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.

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.

Real equipment data can enrich the accuracy of your process model, allowing you to make decisions more confidently. By accessing API and ANSI pump manufacturer data with the new Sulzer Select Application, you can support process optimization projects, FEED studies and various “What If” scenarios without leaving Aspen HYSYS® or Aspen Plus®.

Repeatable designs are used increasingly in the process industry to minimize capital costs and reduce project risk and uncertainty. Using the highly integrated aspenONE® Engineering suite, engineering teams can easily capture best practice designs, and rapidly reuse them on new projects.