On the Release of aspenONE V7.3... 
 

Aspen Online Training 

“As the capabilities of AspenTech's process engineering software continue to grow each year, it is important that users stay informed of the newest product functionality. AspenTech has made learning new product features easier than ever with online training, accessible directly from within the product and available at your fingertips when you need it. The animated viewlets are a great way to pick up new tips or get a quick refresher.”

“Training is a key component of staff recruiting, development and retention. Aspen Online Training helps our process engineers get engaged and productive as quickly as possible. The rich content and video make the information easier to absorb and retain.”

Aspen Search  

“Engineers using AspenTech simulation tools should find Aspen Search extremely useful in many ways. The most obvious benefit of Aspen Search may be its use as a tool for getting a good head-start on new work by first searching, finding, and evaluating existing models. They can also use it to easily track their own models as well as package them for access by other end-users. It stores all of our process data, information, and domain expertise, and ensures that we can re-use this institutional knowledge across the organization.  Aspen Search sets a new standard for tools that improve engineering productivity.”

Aspen Properties Mobile 

“We are now able to instantly access AspenTech’s comprehensive property data on a mobile platform. The application provides us with a tool to aid collaboration in process development and to support decision making in our scale-up facilities.”

aspenONE Supply Chain 

“When we first chose AspenTech’s supply chain technology in Central Europe, the deciding factor was its ability to solve our complex optimization problems. With this new release, AspenTech has made a powerful supply chain software easy to use with faster access to the information that allows us to make decisions. It is the right direction for the product and it will deliver real business benefits for us.”

On Earlier Releases of aspenONE V7...

Chemicals 

"Previously, the performance and stability benefits we received from APC were confined to only certain processes. The new V7 APC platform provides a cost-effective way to implement process control on smaller units and extend those operational benefits throughout our organization."

"To be able to do either a DMC+, an Apollo or a SSC controller in the same software platform is quite amazing. Compared with the previous generation of advanced process control, V7 MSC is friendly, easier, and more efficient to use."

"Over the past several years, Dow has been optimizing its engineering workflow to accelerate the transition from Conceptual Design to Basic and Detailed Engineering, and we are always glad to see new offerings that support these efforts. The integration of process simulation with model-based economic analysis and equipment design improves our engineering efficiency, and reduces the potential for error from manual transfer of data. Automation of data flow among its engineering tools allows Dow to develop better, more economical process designs with a higher return on capital investment."

Energy 

"AspenTech is a leading provider of engineering solutions, and Rentech is positioning itself as a leader in alternative synthetic fuels and chemicals by using aspenONE. One of our resources to achieve this great success is aspenONE. The aspenONE Process Engineering solution provides us with a unique package that enables us to achieve our financial goals by not only reducing our engineering costs, but also increasing our productivity."

"The improvements made to the Aspen Exchanger Design and Rating tool are very useful for specialty exchanger design, specifically the function of variable baffle spacing. This feature is necessary for proper vacuum condenser designs which are common in biofuels processing."

"For more than 10 years we have relied on engineering products sold by AspenTech. We were excited to test the beta version of the Aspen OTS Framework in aspenONE V7, connecting a rigorous model of an Amine CO2 absorption system to a MetsoDNA DCS system configured by L3 Com Valmarine. It is striking how intuitive and user friendly the actual implementation is. We are confident that Aspen OTS Framework will play an important role in extending the life cycle modeling towards increased model usage and a wider role within operational support."

"In today's highly volatile markets, we are deploying an integrated petroleum supply chain solution that provides real time visibility along with the solutions necessary to react with increased speed, in an effort to drive down costs for our company and our customers."

"One of the key challenges when integrating the supply chain is to ensure that the individual organizations - for example Refining, Supply, or Marketing - feel that the decisions being made accurately reflect the impacts or costs on their organizations. Using aspenONE V7 we will be able to combine high-fidelity organizational models, allowing us to accurately determine the incentives, costs, and impacts of supply chain decisions, such as maximizing the value of specific crudes by optimally distributing them across multiple refineries."

"With these synergies in place, Rompetrol is much better able to accomplish things that were very difficult earlier - optimize feedstock for the available capacities and market demand, respond quickly to events or disruptions, capitalize on trading opportunities, optimize inventory and transportation assets, and take advantage of increased visibility and granularity on both the products and energy markets."

"aspenONE V7 is making it easier to keep controllers online and maintain the benefits of advanced process control over time. The new KPI reporting capability with diagnostics provides a key insight into how controllers are behaving and whether or not any remediation may be required. Bayern Oil is also very excited AspenTech's Adaptive Modeling capability. Being able to identify model deterioration, diagnose what the problem is and then re-model the process all within an online framework is a major step forward in performance capability."

Engineering & Construction 

"For Fluor, the ability to collaborate with licensors, Owner-Operators and subcontractors through data exchange is an important element to executing projects globally. AspenTech is on the right track with aspenONE V7 in adding important usability and functionality to help project teams be more productive. Aspen Basic Engineering, formerly known as Aspen Zyqad, is a global reference software at Fluor."

"Our study managers and engineers are always looking for innovative solutions to build on our capabilities in Conceptual and Front End Engineering Studies for our clients. Seeing these capabilities integrated into the HYSYS product suite will help us review more options and maintain best practices at the onset of projects."

"The Aspen Properties Enterprise Database in V7 provides valuable new capabilities to Fluor. It ensures that our process engineers will obtain validated and consistent physical-property calculations in Aspen HYSYS as well as Aspen Plus, and that our proprietary information is protected."

"aspenONE V7 continues to bridge the gap between process and detailed equipment design with the integration of reboilers and the distillation column environment. We have realized significant savings by integrating process simulation with AspenTech's detailed exchanger design tools. The overall impact on the success of past engineering projects have been measured in reduced man hours, more accurate cost estimates and schedules, reduced cycle times for purchasing, and in the overall success of the projects. Continued improvements in integration with V7 are expected to enhance these benefits going forward."

"We recently installed and configured the Aspen Licensing Center Auto Upload Tool and found the process to be quick and easy. The Hands free" feature gives us peace of mind knowing that our usage log files are processed and transmitted without burdening our IT resources. This allows us to seamlessly monitor and track our use of AspenTech solutions, further optimizing our software investment."

"The cost estimation capability in aspenONE V7 streamlines the flow of project information and shortens the cycle for developing accurate cost estimates. This enables us to do projects faster and more cost effectively, resulting in increased productivity."

Industry Experts 

"Companies that can operationalize proven best practices are better able to achieve optimal performance from engineering through manufacturing. Products like V7 that can provide the foundation for best practices will help process manufacturers optimize the value of their assets over the entire plant lifecycle - design, build, operate and maintain."

"In aspenONE V7.0, AspenTech has followed through on their commitment to deliver vendor-neutral interoperability with an ISO 15926 compliant interface from aspenONE Process Engineering to widely used detailed design systems. FIATECH is pleased to see a major vendor of tools for Conceptual and Basic Design embrace ISO 15926. Because of aspenONE V7's integrated workflow, fully automated design and operation of process facilities can now be extended back into the early stages of the asset lifecycle for the first time."

Pharmaceuticals 

"aspenONE V7 offers us at GSK a step-change in ourmodeling and design methods. In particular, the introduction of Aspen ReactionModeler and the NRTL-SAC thermomethod formodeling separation processes willmake a significant difference for our way to approach process design."

"Solubility prediction is of strategic importance to AstraZeneca Process R&D. Our industry is increasingly challenged to deliver efficient and environmentally acceptable processes. Taking just a few physical property measurements and extrapolating them to predict temperature and composition effects on solubility is very desirable. The solubility modeling capability with NRTL-SAC in aspenONE V7 is one of the tools we use in our crystallisation process design workflow. aspenONE helps leverage solubility data to optimise solvent choice and processing conditions.We look forward to future developments from AspenTech that will further increase the areas of application."