Aspen PIMS™

Industry-leading production planning and optimization solution

Aspen PIMS facilitates enterprise-wide planning through optimized feedstock evaluation, product slate optimization, plant design, and operational execution that enables refineries and petrochemical plants to run at maximum efficiency. The scalable single- or multi-user solution models linear and non-linear problems and interfaces to rigorous simulator models. Aspen PIMS is a core element of AspenTech’s aspenONE™ Planning and Scheduling applications.

Features

  • Enterprise-Wide Planning Solution: Facilitates enterprise-wide linear and non-linear planning, allowing for multi-plant and multi-period requirements based on optimizing feedstock selection, product slates, plant design, and operational execution plans. Centralization of calculation results, data, and methods for all users supporting consistent models and better data visibility across the enterprise.
  • Aspen PIMS Advanced Optimization (PIMS-AO): Layered application for Aspen PIMS that contains powerful modeling and analysis technologies. The unique optimization technology enables users to make more rapid and profitable planning decisions though a globally optimal model that offers the best balance between available feedstocks, product requirements, and process unit capacity that considers changing input parameters and that reflects hierarchical objectives.
  • Aspen PIMS Sub-model Calculator (PIMS-SC): Performs matrix calculations on sub-models without running Aspen PIMS cases. Time-saving productivity tool useful for validating sub-model structures.
  • Common Model Environment: Provides a foundation for sharing planning, scheduling, and simulation models developed in Aspen Orion-XT™, Aspen Customer Modeler®, and Aspen RefSYS™. Using common models, data, and assumptions reduces model maintenance costs and eliminates the risk of modeling errors by requiring equations only be built once.
  • Aspen Blend Model Library: 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. Models include feedstock and intermediate options 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.
  • Standardized Work Processes: Providing a common model environment that leverages common data and models across the different business owners enables best-practices and knowledge capture. Delivers shared high-fidelity models in planning, scheduling, and analysis.
  • Reduced Operating Costs: Through a streamlined planning process that enables improved asset utilization, utility right-sizing, utilities reduction, and loss reduction.
  • Sustained Value: Through common process models, consistent model validation and calibration methods, and custom reporting.

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