Shell Oil Company is a global energy and petrochemicals company that produces natural gas, gasoline, oil, and many bulk and specialty chemical products for customers worldwide. Read this case study to learn how Shell’s Manufacturing Margin Optimization team uses AspenTech solutions and AWS Cloud to optimize its energy and petrochemicals business, including planning and scheduling applications.

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Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) has proved to be helpful for continuous processes, but can the same principles be applied to improve equipment effectiveness in batch operations? The short answer is, yes. With some refocused metrics, manufacturers that run batch processes can shorten cycle times and address their own high-value problems by correlating performance, downtime and quality to products and equipment. We spoke with Stuart Forrest, MES Business Consultant for AspenTech, to get the inside scoop on batch OEE and find out what kind of results manufacturers can expect by tracking it through an advanced MES solution.

Forbes-Hexion Is Blazing New Trails In Improving Profitability

This article, featured in The Chemical Engineer, discusses why operators often struggle to know where to begin to digitally transform. AspenTech's Paige Morse outlines how many operations, particularly in specialties, have become increasingly complex as customers demand higher levels of performance and quality and a greater range of options from producers. Operators realize they need to diversify product lines to meet these increasingly sophisticated needs. Download this article to learn more.

The latest Asset Performance Management (APM) solutions are enabling pharmaceutical companies to protect their supply chain, increase asset utilization and avoid unplanned downtime by accurately predicting when equipment anomalies will occur, understanding why they do and prescribing what to do to avoid a potential failure.

Manufacturing Chemist reports clear and sound advice on immediately impactful digital initiatives from AspenTech’s chemicals expert Dr. Paige Morse.

Industrial organizations require historical and real-time data for AI and analytics on the cloud to keep the business running efficiently.

Learn why this world-class specialty chemical producer turned to manufacturing execution systems (MES) solutions from AspenTech to improve manufacturing efficiency and increase annual production.