Aspen PIMS™
Industry-leading production planning and optimization solution
Aspen PIMS facilitates enterprise-wide planning through optimization of feedstock evaluation, product slate production, plant design and operations, enabling refineries and petrochemical plants to run at maximum efficiency and profitability. The scalable single- or multi-user solutions model both linear and non-linear problems and can interface to rigorous simulator models. Aspen PIMS is a core element of AspenTech’s aspenONE® Planning and Scheduling applications, offering multi-core processing for even faster running times for both single and multiple-period use.
Features
- Enterprise-Wide Planning Solution: Facilitates enterprise-wide linear and non-linear planning, providing capabilities for multi-plant and multi-period requirements. Centralization of calculation results, data, and methods for all users supporting consistent models and better data visibility across the enterprise, including shared assay data with Aspen Petroleum Scheduler.
- Aspen PIMS Advanced Optimization (PIMS-AO): Layered application for the Aspen PIMS Family that contains powerful modeling and analytics. This unique, state-of-the-art optimization technology enables users to make quicker planning decisions though a globally optimal model that offers the best balance between available feedstocks, product requirements, and process unit capacities.
- Aspen PIMS Sub-model Calculator (PIMS-SC): Performs matrix calculations on process sub-models without running entire Aspen PIMS cases. This is a time-saving productivity tool and is also useful for validating sub-model structures.
- Aspen Blend Model Library: Unifies a combination of public domain and proprietary blend models for calculating non-linear blend properties of fuels.
Benefits
- Increased Profits: Enables modeling of key planning work processes, including crude and feedstock selection, production planning, operations planning, and blending. Typical model parameters include feedstock and intermediate streams with price tiers, crude fractionation, and property representation. Using Global Optimization and Solution Ranging capabilities, faster and higher profits result from the reduced risk and increased flexibility in feedstock selection. Parametric analysis results provide guidance for hedging programs to protect against unexpected market fluctuations.
- Standardized Work Processes: Provides a common model environment that leverages common data and models across the different business owners enabling best-practices and knowledge capture. Delivers shared high-fidelity models in planning, scheduling, and analysis.
- Reduced Operating Costs: Obtained through a streamlined planning process enabling improved asset utilization, utility right-sizing, utilities reduction, and loss reduction.
- Sustained Value: Achieved through common process models, consistent model validation and calibration methods, and custom reporting.