CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
13 September 2004
Company News
AspenWorld 2004 Conference Sees the Debut of New Software Portfolio for the Polymers Industry
Aspen Technology, Inc. announced that a software portfolio for Enterprise Operations Management (EOM) in the polymers industry will be revealed at AspenWorld 2004, October 10-15, 2004, in Orlando, Florida. This new offering addresses the key business areas in the polymers industry-including engineering and innovation, plant operations, and supply chain management.
AspenWorld 2004 features a comprehensive program focused on process industry issues and challenges. The polymers track features presentations from industry leaders including Yinquan Zhu, Director of Sinopec Yanshan; Jerry Laird, Vice President of Phillip Townsend Associates; Dieter Hollman, Managing Director and Karl-Heinz Walter, Plant Manager of SABIC; and Kawin Vanijdee, Technical Engineer of Thai Polyetheylene.
The polymers plenary session focuses on the theme "Key Issues and Future Directions in Polymers", and is chaired by Jan Versteeg, IT Project Leader of SABIC. The plenary will be followed by four sessions that explore key business and operational issues in the polymers industry including reliability, first-pass prime quality, grade change transition execution and repeatability, plant capacity maximization, inventory levels and customer service levels:
• Achieving Operational Excellence-discussing the technologies, work processes and procedures that can enable plants to achieve reliable, repeatable execution, as well as predictable, consistent first-pass prime quality
• New Developments in Polymer Modeling and Control-highlighting important innovations in polymer modeling and control looking at both empirical and first-principle techniques
• Case Studies in Polymers-reviewing the results achieved by major polymer manufacturers from the implementation of operational excellence strategies
• Polymer Process Modeling-presenting recent developments in the ability to model, predict and control the non-linear process behaviors in polymer plants.
The polymers industry track is part of an AspenWorld 2004 program which includes nearly 300 presentations from companies such as Atofina, Borealis, BP, ChevronPhillips, Dow Chemical, EQUATE, Equistar, Exxon Mobil, LG Caltex, SABIC, Sinopec and Thai Polyetheylene; a showcase of AspenTech's solutions for Enterprise Operations Management (EOM); and a conference agenda that offers opportunities for valuable discussions, learning experiences, and mixing with industry peers. To view the AspenWorld 2004 program and build your own agenda, visit www.aspenworld.2004.com/myagenda/
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