Digital technologies offer significant opportunity for improved quality and cost savings across the chemicals industry by enabling more efficient design, operation, and maintenance of assets throughout their lifecycle. However, many chemical companies are still in the early stages of understanding how such opportunities can be applied effectively to their business. This article highlights how top companies are using data to drive business and operational decisions, and are progressing with their own transformation to the next level of performance and operational excellence.

Tracey Countryman sat down with our blog editor to share industry insights and what she’s looking forward to at OPTIMIZE 2021.

In this article, Transform and Grow – Manufacturing Excellence in Specialty Chemicals, Aspen experts discuss what is required to drive transformation in specialty chemicals through technology-enabled best practices.

This article describes how engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firms are now forging ahead as the industry recovers from years of cutting costs to scale resources back up as the volume and size of projects increase.

In his latest blog, our author gets down to the nitty-gritty and reviews the APM Portfolio applications that provide the means to achieve more profitable and scalable outcomes.

LOTTE Advanced Materials was looking for a tool that would convert data into value to drive operational excellence. In this ARC Advisory Group article, read how LOTTE chose AspenTech’s aspenONE Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) software to transform digitally, and build a robust data analytics platform. Now, LOTTE is able to lock in a visionary software implementation roadmap to optimize business processes and operations.

This blog tells the pandemic story of three companies collaborating on manufacturing hand sanitizer – a packaging paper exporter, an innovation institute and a cosmetics company.

The era of the intelligent mine is here and the maintenance department of the future will use insight to improve its decision-making ability based on data.

Learn why the development of digital twins for Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) provides better, faster and more efficient ways to approach plant design.

This article appeared in the 2018 American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) Conference Daily (Oct 2018) that highlighted the Operational Planning, Control and Automation Technologies session during which Chevron talked about the closed-loop, real-time coordination of a refinery middle distillate system, the benefits and key takeaways.