aspenONE® for Chemicals

Maximize and sustain

operational performance

and profitability with

the agility to react quickly

to market demands

and opportunities

aspenONE® for Chemicals

Overview

The chemical industry relies heavily on hydrocarbon-based feedstocks. As energy and feedstock costs continue

to rise, energy efficiency and maximum throughput of existing assets becomes an increasingly critical issue.

Other key factors impacting the industry include:

• Increasingly competitive landscape due to globalization

• Margin squeeze due to low product pricing power

• Maintaining asset effectiveness at high plant utilization rates

• Increasingly stringent governmental regulations

• Increased market volatility and eroding customer loyalty

aspenONE for Chemicals addresses these challenges by providing an integrated solution set that tackles

inefficiencies end-to-end throughout engineering, planning and scheduling, and plant operations processes.

Companies deploying aspenONE for Chemicals are able to generate benefits of approximately US$28 million

per year per plant*, with payback in months instead of years.

aspenONE for Chemicalsmaximizes plant profitability by:

• Optimizing feedstock selection and scheduling given actual plant constraints

• Improving and accelerating process innovation, thereby reducing time-to-market for new products

• Optimizing plant performance and reducing process variability given the trade-offs between

capacity, yield and energy

• Standardizing manufacturing workflow around best practices for high quality and high yield

• Improving capital efficiency through maximum asset utilization

• Reducing environmental risk

aspenONE for Chemicals is a comprehensive and integrated solution set, offering a fully scalable and modular

approach. Companies have the flexibility to implement incrementally based on areas that will bring the most

immediate benefits or that are causing the most business or operational pain, with a roadmap for incremental

value delivery. aspenONE for Chemicals also leverages existing installations of AspenTech products, extending

those solutions for increased benefits.

The solution set uses ISA-S95 standards, driving true plant-to-enterprise business process interoperability.

Through its integration infrastructure and common real-time data model, aspenONE for Chemicals helps align

people, information, and business processes across organizational and technological boundaries.

“Business winners will master information to create speed of execution as a competitive weapon.”

—Eric Silva, CIO, Lyondell Chemical Company

* Based on an integrated petrochemical plant example producing 500,000 metric tons per year of liquid-fed ethylene.

Application Benefit

aspenONE

Supply Chain

for Chemicals

aspenONE

Advanced Process

Control for Chemicals

aspenONE

Production Management

& Execution

for Chemicals

aspenONE

Engineering

for Chemicals

• Select and run the right feedstock and raw material quality

• Increase throughput through improved asset utilization

• Improve scheduling by managing to the constraints of the plant

• Make better decisions faster and closer to process capabilities

• Optimize setpoints against up-to-date constraints through the use of

real-time online models

• Decrease process variability

• Maintain operations within established limits / desired targets

• Increase production rates

• Reduce waste and energy consumption

• Standardize manufacturing workflow via cross-site benchmarking

• Accurately assess, manage and meet production demands through daily data

reconciliation for plan vs. actual

• Improve decision-making through real-time process visibility and tracking of

operational KPIs

• Enable procedural and regulatory compliance

• Supports cross-functional collaboration through the use of consistent models

and data

• Drive process improvements and innovative designs through

rigorous plant models, allowing plants to

– Increase capacity and decrease energy

– Improve yield and margins

– Reduce capital and operating costs

– Increase engineering efficiency

– Bring new products and designs to market faster at a higher

return on investment

aspenONE for Chemicals is comprised of the following applications:

Worldwide Headquarters

Aspen Technology, Inc.200 Wheeler RoadBurlington, MA 01803United States

phone: +1–781–221–6400fax: +1–781–221–6410info@aspentech.com

Regional Headquarters

Houston, TX | USAphone: +1–281–584–1000

São Paulo | Brazilphone: +55–11–3443–6261

Reading | United Kingdomphone: +44–(0)–1189–226400

Singapore | Republic of Singapore phone: +65–6395–3900

Manama | Bahrainphone: +973–17–50–3000

For a complete list of offices, please visit www.aspentech.com/locations

Empower Your Company to Succeed

aspenONE for Chemicals drives collaborative manufacturing by providing solutions for each phase of the

business in an integrated environment, providing visibility, sharing and re-use of data and process

models. By integrating the overall business processes which have the greatest impact on operational

performance, companies are able to achieve significant improvements in performance and profitability.

AspenTech’s Professional Services team helps customers to maximize these benefits by effectively

deploying solutions and best practices to deliver superior results. Unparalleled industry knowledge

combined with comprehensive solution expertise has allowed AspenTech to deliver thousands of

successful implementations, driving increased margins for our customers. Combined with our world-

class 24/7 technical support service, flexible training options, and local language product availability,

AspenTech provides the resources to enable your company to meet and exceed its business objectives.

To learn more, visit www.aspentech.com/pro_services.

About AspenTech

AspenTech is a leading supplier of software that optimizes process manufacturing—for energy, chemicals,

pharmaceuticals, engineering and construction, and other industries that manufacture and produce

products from a chemical process. With integrated aspenONE® solutions, process manufacturers can

implement best practices for optimizing their engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain operations.

As a result, AspenTech customers are better able to increase capacity, improve margins, reduce costs,

and become more energy efficient. To see how the world’s leading process manufacturers rely on

AspenTech to achieve their operational excellence goals, visit www.aspentech.com.

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