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A powerful application environment and information management system for unlocking knowledge and value in real-time manufacturing processes.
Aspen InfoPlus.21 provides real-time application development capabilities, coupled with powerful visualization and analysis tools. This unique environment allows businesses to create knowledge about the process and transform it into action consistent with business objectives. Equip your staff with the information they need to drive the best achievable operation, and meet your most stringent regulatory and reporting requirements. The Challenge: Managing Supply Chain Logistics in Real-Time
In todays complex and dynamic downstream environment, secondary petroleum distribution teams are dependent on instant and accurate information to make decisions about supply, inventory, customer demands, and scheduling. Poor interaction and limited visibility across the petroleum supply chain, however, have historically led to increased overhead, excess inventory, increased supply shocks, and high distribution costs.

Aspen Retail delivers value by: Forecasting product demand for each site Enabling inventory control to minimize runouts and haulbacks, maximize delivery windows, and reduce excess inventory Optimizing transportation schedules to minimize distribution costs and lower cost per volume delivered

The AspenTech Solution: Improved Visibility, Better Data Drive Efficiency

Aspen Retail is the only secondary petroleum distribution solution with the ability to address the entire order-to-cash business process workflow to deliver maximized margins. Aspen Retail uses two advanced decision support toolsAutomated Stock Replenishment and Resource Scheduling Optimization. These tools enable petroleum marketers to financially and operationally optimize each component of the overall logistics business process. The ability to support and exploit a real-time information environment ensures that the organization is consistently able to evaluate and optimize trade-offs, achieving the best possible results. Boasting the largest petroleum client base of any secondary distribution solution, Aspen Retail is designed to support the diverse users and business cases that characterize the petroleum secondary supply chain.

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Keys to Faster and Better Business Decisions

Lowest Cost Application Development Platform
Use our tools or build your own applications to solve unique business problems Embedded drag-and-drop calculation engine and SQL environment SOA-ready web services adapter for business intelligence applications Faster application development, lower support and upgrade cost Unleashes the creativity of your technical staff to solve problems Key process trends, results of statistical analysis, and process graphics aid in interpretation of plant data. Visualization is synchronized through a common-time context.

Mass Data Display and Analysis Tool

Powerful, out-of-the-box functionalityno training required High-speed, embedded statistical functions Easy-to-use ad hoc calculation functions Predict the future as well as assess current and past performance The industrys best solution for enabling online execution of process models Quickly assess the root cause of process problems

Powerful Applications Historian

Flexible, real-time database Event-driven applications engine Multiple, configurable history repositories More than 1,000,000 real-time records Steady-state write speed up to 50,000 points/second Systems typically accommodate up to 400,000 tags Events are captured in a real-time database, facilitating operator response through notification of process changes. Events and process limits are easily visualized.

Enterprise-Ready Architecture
Foundation for many aspenONE solutions DCS independent Tight integration with Windows/Active directory security Flexible communications architecture for firewall security (OPC, native, or message-based integration) ISA-S95 hierarchical navigation

Statistical analysis of actual vs. target performance coupled to KPI monitoring provides for advanced notification, enabling avoidance of excursions and process upsets.

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Function
Applications Development Platform
Environment for building business-specific applications Drag-and-drop calculation engine and SQL environment

Benefit
Better and faster decisions Faster application development Lower support and upgrade costs

Analysis
Aspen Calc module for production calculations State-of-the-art, object-oriented environment Microsoft Windows-style GUI Support for Microsoft COM and ADO Reduces training costs Faster implementation Simple maintenance Broad user acceptance

Access to Process Models

Automatic periodic execution of process models without programming (Aspen Plus, Aspen HYSYS, and Aspen Custom Modeler) using real-time, conditioned data is available Build empirical models from process data Improves operations through online modeling Reduces energy costs; increases capacity; avoids shutdowns; reduces labor costs

Data Historian
Collect and store large volumes of process data in a hierarchical, real-time, configurable database Optimized for high-speed data acquisition Provides multiple data repositories and unlimited archival storage Reduces the time to assess root causes of problems Faster and better business decisions Data model adapts to the requirements of the application, resulting in an optimized solution for manufacturing information management

Events
Database detects state changes through event-driven asynchronous processing Events trigger automatically in real-time based on user-defined or time-driven criteria Tracks manufacturing events significant to the process (e.g., alarms, operator actions, batch transitions) Enables immediate action on real-time data

Querying and Reporting

Built-in Aspen SQLplus module Generates reports and analyses; performs queries Develops procedural applications Stores user-defined functions, manually or automatically Publishes reports via email or web Combines the benefits of flexible relational databases with the response of real-time systems Performs downtime and fault analysis, alarm analysis, production reports, and recipe management

Health Monitor
Monitors multiple systems External notification via email, Aspen SQLplus reporting, or web access Ensures reliable operation Identifies problems and notifies personnel to take action Simplifies operation in single- and multi-system environments