As the energy transition rapidly evolves—and industrial companies need to remain up and running 24/7 despite sustainability constraints and challenges with the traditional grid—microgrids are becoming increasingly popular.

For businesses needing dependable electricity, microgrids are quickly becoming an essential tool that offers power reliability, operational optimization and increased sustainability.

With global electricity demand growing at an unprecedented pace—and renewables and storage driving increased grid complexity—microgrids are becoming an essential part of planning for infrastructure and asset reliability. Microgrids provide a safeguard against power interruptions, minimizing revenue loss by avoiding unplanned production downtime, carbon emissions penalties and operational costs.

Teck's Trail Operations was looking at new maintenance approaches to reduce downtime, boost production and minimize risks while ensuring a stable and safe process.

Heiko Claussen, AspenTech Co-Chief Technology Officer, explains how Industrial AI saves more than it consumes.

Heavy mobile equipment (HME) failures significantly impact the mining value chain, leading to costly shutdowns, health and safety risks, and losses amounting to thousands of dollars. Mining companies can mitigate these issues by implementing AspenTech's Prescriptive Maintenance solution. This solution monitors haul fleets, excavators, and other heavy mobile equipment, providing actionable, real-time insights and identifying failures before they occur—often with weeks or even months of advance notice.

Las fallas en equipos móviles pesados (EMP) impactan significativamente la cadena de valor de minería, generando paros costosos, riesgos para la salud y la seguridad, y pérdidas que ascienden a miles de dólares. Las empresas mineras pueden mitigar estos problemas implementando la solución de Mantenimiento Prescriptivo de AspenTech. Esta solución supervisa flotas de acarreo, excavadoras y otros equipos móviles pesados, proporcionando información procesable en tiempo real e identificando fallas antes de que ocurran, a menudo con semanas o incluso meses de antelación.

As the utilities industry moves toward a reduced carbon footprint and governments subsidize renewable energy to accelerate investment, applications to utilities for renewable interconnection approval continue to skyrocket.

Learn how a multinational energy company that was looking to improve integration and collaboration between engineers and disciplines across different locations, implemented Aspen Basic Engineering™(ABE).

Process simulation, cost estimation and 3D models are crucial to engineering projects, leading to better, more accurate designs. Now imagine seamlessly integrating these disciplines into one concurrent workflow for real-time collaboration that dramatically saves time and reduces costs.