Product Position and Overview

InfoPlus.21 Foundation Course

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 Introduction

• This short introduction explains the InfoPlus.21 product

architecture, and how it fits into AspenTech’s strategy of
helping you to realize the True Potential™ of your
business

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 The AspenTech Vision

To be the leader in enabling every

process enterprise in the world to be
optimized to its True Potential™

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 Keys to Achieving Profit Leadership
• Generate most-profitable decisions quickly
– Have the right (real-time) information available
– Base decision on models that accurately reflect the real-world
behaviors of the value chain

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 AspenTech ProfitAdvantage™

Aspen Value Process Analysis

Solution Elements

Business Process Best Practices

Leading Process Industry Software
e-Business Collaboration Capability
Rapid Implementation
Global Services and Support

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 Leading Process Industry Software

Enterprise Solution Architecture

Value Chain Planning

Supply-side Production Demand-side

Optimization Optimization Optimization

E X E C U T I O N

Asset Optimization

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 Leading Process Industry Software
• Best Practice
– AspenTech offers a wide selection of “Best-In-Class” software
products that address specific issues within the process industries
• AspenTech calls each of these a “focused product.” InfoPlus.21 is an example of
such a product focused on providing real-time and historical process
management information

• Enterprise Optimization
– Organizing many focused products and services into enterprise-wide,
integrated, business solutions (Enterprise Optimization) offers still
greater benefits:
• The infrastructure for doing this is provided by a software technology called
Aspen FrameworkTM
• The concept of integration within the factory gates is called Plantelligence TM

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 AspenTech Products Exist within Three
Strategic Dimensions
Business
Aspen Systems
Manufacturing
Suite
Production

Supply Distribution

Aspen
Concept eSupply
Chain Suite

Aspen Plant
Engineering Systems
Suite
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 Aspen Engineering Suite
• Managing process and plant information from Concept and R&D
through to the operating plant
• Key Business Processes:
– Construction, Startup, and Commissioning
– Process Improvement and Optimization
– Debottlenecking and Troubleshooting
– Product R&D
– Process Technology R&D
Production
– Process Development and Design
– Plant Design and Engineering

Concept

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 Aspen Engineering Suite Products
Conceptual Process Detailed Plant
Design Engineering Engineering Operation
Aspen Aspen Plus Aspen Aspen
Properties Batchfrac Aerotran OnLine
Aspen OLI Ratefrac Aspen Hetran Aspen
Aspen PEP Aspen FCC Aspen Teams OTISS
Aspen Split Polymers Plus
Aspen Pinch Aspen Custom
Aspen Water Modeler
Aspen Dynamics
Aspen ADSIM
Aspen
Chromatography
Batch Plus
Aspen Zyqad
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 Aspen Manufacturing Suite
• Managing the daily business transactions of the organization and
the key manufacturing operations
• Key Business Processes:
Enterprise System
– Production Planning and Scheduling
– Production Management and Accounting
– Inventory Control
– Performance Analysis
– Maintenance Management
– Process Control and Optimization
– Process Monitoring
– Quality Management
– Packaging and Shipping
Control System

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 Aspen Manufacturing Suite Products

Advanced Production Information Industry Info.

Control Management Analysis Analysis
DMCplus Aspen Advisor InfoPlus.21 Profile.21
Aspen Watch Process Recipe/ Process Explorer Batch.21
Transition CIM-IO Batch Connect
Management Desktop ODBC
Aspen Process Event.21
Order LIMS Interface
Product Tracking CIMVIEW
ERP Connect Accounting.21
Inferentials
Aspen Genealogy Aspen Calc
Aspen IQ
Compliance.21 Aspen Multivariate
Q for Process
Explorer
SQLplus
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 Aspen eSupply Chain Suite
• Managing and optimizing the physical flow of materials and key supply
chain processes in an enterprise
• Key Business Processes:
– Strategic Planning and Facilities Planning
– Raw Materials Supply Management
– Production Planning and Scheduling
– Distribution and Logistics Management
– Demand Forecasting and Inventory Management
– Available to promise
– e-Business to Business
– Sourcing

Supply Distribution

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 Aspen eSupply Chain Suite Products
Execution Scheduling Tactical Strategic
ATP/CTP/VMI Plant Scheduler Business Planner Strategic Analyzer
eBusiness Polymer Scheduler Global Planner Profit Bid
Ref-Sked Demand Planner Bulk Transportation
Optimization
Pipe-Sked Inventory Manager
MBO (Blend) and Planner
Logistics Manager Logistics Manager
and Planner
eBusiness
Plant Planner
Distribution Planner
Bulk Transportation
Optimization
PIMS
SD-PIMS
eBusiness
PetrolSoft

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 Integration: The Aspen Enterprise Suite
• Aspen Framework; AspenTech’s Integration Infrastructure
• All products in Aspen’s Enterprise Optimization Suites are
Framework compatible
• They can exchange data with each other and with Enterprise
Objects to form truly integrated solutions
Aspen
Manufacturing
Suite

Aspen Aspen
Engineering Aspen Framework eSupply Chain
Suite Suite
Integrated
Solutions

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 Aspen Framework (AFW)
• Aspen Framework comprises:
– Business Process Explorer (BPE)
• Role-sensitive user interface for automating work process for end user
– Enterprise Objects
• Configurable object models use Aspen Framework’s central data repository
– Security
• Configurable user roles held on an Aspen Framework server
– Installation
• Common Installation for all Aspen Framework compliant products
– License Manager
• Common License Manager
• Aspen Framework is supplied on Aspen Manufacturing Suite CD (though
only licensed modules accessible)

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 Business Process Explorer: AFW’s User “Console”
• Menu items and structure adapt to your “Role”
• Focus is on the
business process,
not the software
• “Walk up to” any
desktop and be
able to access your
work in consistent way
• Listed tasks can
– Launch applications
– Execute VBA macros
– Launch web pages

• Web enabled
• Supplied with
Aspen Manufacturing
Suite as standard Web Page in BPE
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 Enterprise Optimization Example
• The next slide shows how AspenTech products can be
integrated to optimize the workflow in the business
processes of a fictional example Polymer Manufacturing
enterprise

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 Example: Polymer Workflow Integration (1)
Product
MRP Distribution ERP

Periodic Transport Process Resource Finished Product

Forecast Orders Orders Consumption Goods Quality

3.Execution 10.Production 11.Data

1.Planning 2.Scheduling
Release Orders Transactions Validation

4.Operation 9.Balance 12.Material

Directives Models Balance

5. Process 8.Batch 13.Planned vs.

Recipes Record Actual

16.Engineering 17.Process 6.Adv. Process 7.Process 14.Process 15. Quality

Workflow Simulation Control History Analysis Mgmt

Control Vendors DCS

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 Example: Polymer Workflow Integration (2)
Product
MRP Distribution ERP

Periodic Transport Process Resource Finished Product

Forecast Orders Orders Consumption Goods Quality

Aspen Process 10.Production

Production
MIMI Planning MIMI Scheduling Advisor
Order Transactions
Transactions

Aspen Process
Accounting.21 Advisor
Order

Aspen Process Planned vs.

Batch.21
Recipe Actual BPT

Process
Batch Plus Batch Plus DMCplus InfoPlus.21 Compliance.21
Analysis

Control Vendors DCS

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 Not Ready for Enterprise Optimization Yet?
• Can implement AspenTech’s focussed solutions, like
InfoPlus.21, individually, with immediate benefits
• Because it has all the “hooks”
built in for integration to both
Aspen Framework and other
programs, option exists to
incorporate it later into an
enterprise strategy
and obtain further
productivity benefits

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 Positioning Review
• InfoPlus.21 is a process data manager and historian with
many versatile links to other applications, allowing local
integration, or, with Aspen Framework, Enterprise-wide
integration. It is part of the Aspen Manufacturing Suite
• Versatile links to clients are based on mainstream
Windows and Web technology, allowing an appropriate
secure method of presenting data for each user’s role

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