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AspenTech
Founded 1981 from ASPEN Project at MIT
1900 Employees world wide
HQ in Cambridge, MA (Boston)
Development in Cambridge, Houston and Seattle
Offices in 35 Countries
public held since 1994, NASDAQ
Revenue FY2001 : 310 MM$
Project Execution + Support: ca. 200 Empl. in
Brussels / B; Warrington / UK; Eindhoven / NL; Paris / F, Wiesbaden / D

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Aspen Manufacturing Suite

Advanced Co Production Ma
ntrol
nagement

Information
Analysis

Industry Info.
Analysis

DMCPlus
Aspen Watch

InfoPlus.21
Process Explorer
CIM-IO
Desktop ODBC
Event.21
LIMS Interface
Web.21
Aspen Calc
Aspen Multivariate
Q (SPC/SQC)
SQLplus

Batch.21
Profile.21
Batch Connect

Inferentials
Inferentials
Aspen IQ
Aspen IQ+

Optimisation
RT-OPT
Aspen Online
Train. Simul.

Aspen Advisor
Aspen Process
Order
Process Recipe/
Transition
Management
Product Tracking
Aspen eBRS
Genealogy
Compliance.21
ERP Connect

Aspen Enterprise Platform AEP

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InfoPlus.21
Information Management System

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InfoPlus.21 Structure
SAP

Process
Explorer

Batch Queries

MS-Win Apps

OLE-Autom. Interface
Client Side Data Server

TCP/IP

Data server

Connect
ERP-

ODBC Client

ODBC
Server

SQLplus Engine
Event/21
Batch/21

Realtime
RealtimeDatabase
Database
Flexible
FlexibleTag
TagDefinitions
Definitions
Event
driven
Event driven
(stored
(storedSQLplus
SQLplusscripts)
scripts)
Alarming
Alarming
Calculations
Calculations

HISTORY/
21

SQLplus

RDBMS

TCP/IP
CIM I/O
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CIM I/O
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Data Compression in InfoPlus.21

Boxcar-Backslope Algorithm :

= stored in History
= not stored
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InfoPlus.21 Data Historian

Archive size only limited by disc space
Multiple History / multiple File set Concept
Process Data Server provides Access to:
- Actual values, Interpolated Values, Best Fit
- Avergages, Sum, Min, Max .
ODBC and OLE Interface for external applications on Server and Client

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Interfaces to InfoPlus.21
Standard Protocols:
- OPC
- DDE, @aGlance, ODBC
- Modbus, Profibus, H1
- ASCII
~ 200 Interfaces to different DCS, PLC
Multiple Platforms ( NT, DEC, IBM, HP )
Throughput 50 3000 Values / sec

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Aspen Process Explorer

Microsoft based Graphical User Interface (GUI) for process engineers
Microsoft component technology
ActiveX Controls
ActiveX Container

VBA for customized Displays and dialogs

Easy access to real time and historical data
User Security for Access Control up to Tag-Level
Excel Add-In for easy Data Export

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InfoPlus.21
Web.21
Client

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Web Client
Easy Access to InfoPlus.21 through Internet Explorer
No Client Installation required
User Access Security as with Process Explorer
Plug-In for MS FrontPage 2000 for Web Page design
Web.21 Graphic Studio for Process Graphics

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InfoPlus.21
Layered Products
Batch.21

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Batch.21 Integrates Process & Batch Data

Trend Data

Batch XYZ
Avg. Temp. 37.1
pH
.14
H2O Chg. 14.7
...
Batch XYZ
Avg. Temp. 37.1
pH
.14
H2O Chg. 14.7
...

Batch Process
Information

Batch Records
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Multi-batch Plot

Spot
abnormalities

Selected batch

Tags/
characteristics
Batches 6-45
Timeline set
to selected
batch

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Batch Overlay Trend

Tagname

Recently
selected
tags

Batches

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Aspen Calc
Layered Products
Aspen CALC

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Aspen Calc
E x c e l C a lc u la tio n s
S c h e d u le r

M anual and
E v e n t d riv e n
E x e c u tio n

C O M O b je c ts
C a lc S c r ip ts

V B S c r ip ts

A u t o m a t io n I n t e r f a c e

E x te rn a l
A p p lic a tio n P r o g r a m s

A s p e n C a lc
E x e c u ta b le s
P r o g r a m file s

R e la tio n a l D B
(M S -S Q L S e rv e r,
O r a c le )

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InfoPlus.21
Layered Products:
ERPConnect, SAP Interface

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AspenTech Provides High-Performance SAP R/3

Plant Integration Through ERP Connect
Production
Production
Management
Management
Solutions
Solutions

Information
Information
Management
Management
Solutions
Solutions

Key Benefits of ERP

Connect

PPPI

SAP certified interface

1
1

IP21
IP21

ERP
ERP
Connect
Connect

MM
QM
PM

Advisor
Advisor

R/3

SAP RFC, BAPI, and Idocs

interface approaches all
supported

High flexibility / re-usability

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ERP Connect Architecture

Applets for
pre/post
processing data

FI

SD

Quality
Mgmt.

QM

MM

PP

ABAP

ABAP

ABAP

ABAP

ABAP

RFC

SQLplus scripts for IP21

ERP Connect

Standard SAP modules

or ABAP for SAP

Scripts

Supports any R/3

modules that support RFCs

SAP R/3

Uses SAPs
middleware

SQLplus
InfoPlus.21

Standard SQLplus scripts for PP-PI

Can be initiated by both InfoPlus.21 & R/3

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Sample Reference Project Architecture

IT Network - Ethernet
Production
Units

Real Time Data Base

Application Server

Labs

Utilities

Interface To
Other
Solutions
Ethernet

Ethernet

OPC Gateway 1

OPC Gateway n

CIMIO
OPC Client
OPC Client
OPC
OPCServer
Server
1.1
1.1

CIMIO
OPC Client
OPC Client
OPCServer
Server
OPC
1.m
1.m

PLC 1.1.1
PLC 1.1.2

OPC
OPC Server
Server

OPC
OPCServer
Server
n.n
1.1

PLC 1.m.1

PLC n.n.1

PLC 1.m.2

PLC n.n.2

HMI
HMI1.2.1
1.2.1

PLC 1.1.3

Industrial
network 1

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PLC n.p.1

OPC
OPC Server
Server

Connection of
other devices
Ser. line

PLC n.p.2

HMI
HMI1.2.1
n.o.1

PLC 1.m.3

Industrial
network 2

OPCServer
Server
OPC
n.p
1.m

Industrial
network 3

PLC n.n.3

Industrial
network n

PLC n.p.3

Industrial
network o

Anal. or
dig. input

Industrial
network p

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Sample Reference Project IP.21 Trends

=muj_discr-1000*muj_demo

Start Date & Time

Time Period

End Date & Time

1
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Sample Reference Project Batch.21

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Sample Reference Project Web.21

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