aspenONE^® V7 Manufacturing
and Supply Chain

Driving Higher Profitability in a Changing Global Economy

Troubleshooting Batch Issues

Business Problem: Undetected process problems due to labor-intensive
work processes associated with problem identification

Another challenge in batch operations is reducing the time it takes to identify where problems are occurring. Data is often scattered in different systems, leaving operations to search for information to figure out how far the process is off target.

As a result, more time is spent trying to understand the problem before anyone can actually correct it.

• Data about the process is scattered in different systems
• Operations wastes time searching for information
• Determining actual vs. target
• Understanding business impact
• Identifying top priority actions
• Less time is available to work on highest priority issues

Solution: Review by Exception

V7 solves this challenge by aggregating the status of key performance indicators, as well as statistical process control charts and progress of batches, and then delivering the data in an easy-to-understand, web-based summary.

• Aggregate status from many sources into a manufacturing web-based status summary
• Batch Monitoring
• KPIs
• SPC

The information is color coded allowing operations to quickly identify those alarm states that require immediate attention.

Drill down to see details of alarms:

• What triggered event
• Batch characteristics
• Direct access to detailed batch report

You can choose any of the metrics to drill down and see what triggered the event, access batch characteristics, or obtain detailed batch reports to perform root-cause analysis—whatever is necessary to correct the problem, quickly and efficiently.

This status summary greatly enhances your ability to detect problems and understand the business implications, leading to improved quality.

Business Benefit: Improved problem detection leads to quality improvement