aspenONE for Chemicals is an integrated software solution that helps chemical companies maximize profitability by optimizing plant operations, feedstock selection, and scheduling. It addresses challenges like rising energy costs, competitive pressures, and regulations. The solution improves engineering, planning, operations, and supply chain management. Companies see average annual benefits of $28 million per plant from increased throughput, reduced variability and costs, and bringing new products to market faster. The modular solution can be implemented incrementally to address specific pain points and delivers ongoing value.

1. aspenONE® for Chemicals
Maximize and sustain
operational performance
and profitability with
the agility to react quickly
to market demands
and opportunities

2. “Business winners will master information to create speed of execution as a competitive weapon.”
—Eric Silva, CIO, Lyondell Chemical Company
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 Chemicals maximizes 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.
* Based on an integrated petrochemical plant example producing 500,000 metric tons per year of liquid-fed ethylene.

3. aspenONE for Chemicals is comprised of the following applications:
Application Benefit
aspenONE • Select and run the right feedstock and raw material quality
Supply Chain • Increase throughput through improved asset utilization
for Chemicals
• Improve scheduling by managing to the constraints of the plant
• Make better decisions faster and closer to process capabilities
aspenONE • Optimize setpoints against up-to-date constraints through the use of
Advanced Process real-time online models
Control for Chemicals • Decrease process variability
• Maintain operations within established limits / desired targets
• Increase production rates
• Reduce waste and energy consumption
aspenONE • Standardize manufacturing workflow via cross-site benchmarking
Production Management • Accurately assess, manage and meet production demands through daily data
& Execution reconciliation for plan vs. actual
for Chemicals
• Improve decision-making through real-time process visibility and tracking of
operational KPIs
• Enable procedural and regulatory compliance
aspenONE • Supports cross-functional collaboration through the use of consistent models
Engineering and data
for Chemicals • 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

4. Empower Your Company to Succeed
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