AspenTech 2008 User Conferences in Houston and Berlin Highlight Best Practices in Operational Excellence from Global Process Manufacturers Using aspenONE

Logistics Asia - Technology & Market Trends, 14/5/2008

The world’s leading process manufacturers in energy, chemicals, engineering & construction, pharmaceuticals and other industries shared their process optimization success stories using aspenONE at the recent global user conferences of Aspen Technology, Inc.

Nearly 1,000 users, AspenTech business partners and process industry experts attended the conferences in Houston and Berlin. Keynote presentations were delivered by Evonik Degussa, BP and Microsoft. Schlumberger, Eli Lilly, Fluor, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and dozens of other process industry organizations also presented papers during the conferences.

“No other software industry event that I’m aware of creates an opportunity for sharing of best practices across engineering, manufacturing and process information management,” said Kai Dadhe, keynote speaker at both the Houston and Berlin conferences from Evonik Degussa, a $14.4 billion global specialty chemicals company. “From my involvement with both events it was apparent that the industry’s most forward-thinking manufacturers are gaining tremendous value by applying the latest advances in process optimization solutions to their engineering and operational challenges.”

Dozens of customer papers presented during the conferences highlighted how their companies are achieving new levels of operational excellence and more rapid return on investment through:

· Model-based approaches to integrating engineering with manufacturing operations
· Best practices for reducing energy consumption and carbon footprint
· Better use of operating data to guide effective performance management decisions
· Economic evaluation of capital and operating expenses based on process modification
· Collaborative engineering solutions to enable global project execution
· Use of new IT technologies such as virtualization to accelerate speed of enterprise deployment

In addition, AspenTech engineering and manufacturing product experts highlighted new developments and enhancements in the company’s flagship aspenONE solution, designed to deliver enhanced ease of use for end users, simplify IT and management for enterprise deployments, and provide deeper levels of process integration across engineering and manufacturing operations.

AspenTech’s Asia-Pacific (APAC) region will host its user conferences throughout Asia and Australia later this month. For more information on attending an AspenTech APAC user conference, visit http://www.aspentech.com/events/index.cfm.

AspenTech, www.aspentech.com