Integrate Multiple Workflows, Accelerate Capital Project Delivery
Concurrent Engineering
Aspen OptiPlant 3D Layout
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Aspen Capital Cost Estimator
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Aspen Basic Engineering (ABE) streamlines the creation of process engineering deliverables by integrating process and FEED data into a single, centralized database. ABE helps improve productivity, enhance agility and accelerate time-to-value across engineering phases.
Aspen Basic Engineering
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Aspen Fidelis
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Aspen HYSYS
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Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating (EDR) provides rigorous thermal and mechanical models for all major heat exchanger types, fully compliant with the latest ASME standards. Its proven calculation engine helps optimize performance and energy use across the project, driving higher operational efficiency.
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Model exchangers rigorously and verify process conditions using live process simulation data.
Transfer mechanical designs for shell & tube exchangers to build detailed cost estimates faster.
Quickly generate TEMA datasheets for every heat exchanger and transfer them into a centralized database to create more deliverables.
Generate equipment and safety datasheets from process simulations, keeping this data consistent across all other deliverables.
Centralize detailed design and cost results importing equipment data from Aspen EDR and ACCE.
Leverage FEED data to create P&IDs integrating with Hexagon’s Intergraph Smart P&ID.
Predict performance across multiple lifecycles using Monte-Carlo simulation.
Uncover process bottlenecks and opportunities for equipment redundancy.
Maximize return of investment by ensuring critical business targets are achieved.
Quantify risks from process simulation data and use it as a starting point for RAM analysis to maximize the system’s performance.
Assess the most cost-effective design alternative, estimating capital cost of redundant equipment, spares, etc.
Aspen Fidelis enables teams to evaluate the future performance of a new or existing system, quantify the likelihood of missing production targets, and identify cost-effective design improvements to reduce operational risk and increase reliability.
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Use AI-generated starting layouts and focus on refining the model.
Design and route piping and cable trays automatically using highly accurate AI.
Incorporate 3D layout development into design workflows.
Import the list of unit operations and their connectivity from a process simulation to streamline layout creation.
Transfer calculated piping and cable tray quantities for faster, more accurate cost estimates.
Export final layouts into detailed 3D modeling tools (Hexagon’s Intergraph Smart 3D and AVEVA E3D Design).
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Aspen Capital Cost Estimator (ACCE) delivers a unique model-based approach to quickly generate Total Installed Cost (TIC) estimates – including equipment, piping, instrumentation, civil, and more, from minimal process and equipment data, allowing to uncover cost-saving opportunities earlier.
Generate robust capital cost estimates from conceptual through detailed engineering.
Leverage reusable templates and historical estimates to reduce estimation time.
Compare design alternatives quickly for better decisions that drive improved designs.
First-principles thermal and mechanical design for heat exchangers.
Access to a property database with 37,000 components and 127 models.
Identification of energy saving opportunities while optimizing CAPEX and OPEX.
A coordinated, multi-disciplinary approach enables faster project timelines, better design quality and increased capital efficiency with simultaneous cross-functional design and execution.
Enter Concurrent Engineering, integrating simulation, equipment design, economics, engineering deliverables, risk management and 3D layouts.
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Concurrent Engineering solutions.
Run economic analysis, design or rate heat exchangers and create equipment datasheets inside the simulation window.
Design and rate rigorous shell & tube exchangers, air coolers, plate exchangers, fired heaters, etc. using the latest process data.
Evaluate process economics and optimize project CAPEX & OPEX from early design stages. Accelerate estimate development using simulation results.
Create engineering deliverables faster, consistent with latest simulation results.
Leverage equipment lists, sizes and connectivity from the simulation for easier and faster 3D layout creation.
Compare risk & benefits from different design alternatives. Find the correct redundancy to secure production goals.
Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus are leading process simulators, validated across multiple industries. They enable quick and accurate process modeling, helping users gain insights to improve and optimize design and operations for enhanced safety, efficiency, profitability and equipment performance.
Faster time-to-market with high-fidelity models.
Built-in capabilities for rigorous modeling of a wide range of processes.
Lifecycle modeling from design through operations.
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Evaluate CAPEX and OPEX from a process simulation and review the cost impact of any design change in real time.
Use rigorous mechanical shell & tube exchanger designs for more robust cost estimates.
Maintain consistent equipment and MTO quantities validated against 3D models to improve estimate accuracy.
Leverage equipment sizes and cost data to create documentation consistent with estimate data.
Compare the economic impact of multiple design alternatives to reduce process risk.
Generate detailed project schedules from estimated construction and engineering man hours and tasks using Primavera P6 Enterprise.
Aspen OptiPlant 3D Layout enables engineers to develop conceptual 3D models rapidly, supporting early safety and constructability reviews, improving project visualization and enhancing the accuracy of bulk quantity calculation.
Deliver basic engineering packages faster with less effort.
Capture process technologies in reusable templates for significant time savings.
Enter data once and maintain it in a single, up‑to‑date repository shared across the team.
Synergizing Products
Aspen Capital Cost Estimator
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Aspen OptiPlant 3D Layout
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Aspen Basic Engineering
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Aspen Fidelis
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Aspen HYSYS
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Aspen Plus
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Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating
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