Aspen Integration Infrastructure™
Integrates applications and data across engineering, plant
operations, and supply chain
Aspen Integration Infrastructure is a common set of
software tools for all aspenONE® solutions, providing an open
and standards-based approach to integrating applications and data
from AspenTech and other vendors. When configured as part of
aspenONE’s modules, Aspen Integration Infrastructure
provides the functionality to visualize, analyze, and optimize your
operations in a collaborative environment.
Features
- Aspen Enterprise Integration Framework (EIF):
A communication platform for the integration of all aspenONE
products based on Microsoft .NET 3.x Windows Communication
Foundation (WCF). The Aspen EIF consists of a Core and six
separately installable components. Support
is provided for SharePoint 2007, Windows Vista, and Windows
Communications Foundation (WCF).
- Aspen
Role-Based Visualization: View timely, accurate
information in one place, covering the three time domains of
operations: historical, real-time, and future. By aggregating the
content from multiple sources into a web-based graphical user
interface (GUI), you have access at anytime and anywhere through
multiple devices.
- Aspen Event
Manager: Enables you to identify events and trends in
real-time in the context of your business processes, linking events
that have the greatest impact on your business to your standard
operating procedures (SOPs), letting you take rapid action.
- Aspen
Manufacturing Master Data Manager: Provides a
consistent business view of manufacturing and related data so that
data passed between applications is “understood.” The
repository provides master data (e.g., equipment, materials,
people, locations) to support visibility, application integration,
and business process integration.
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Leverages
Microsoft® middleware and key components of an SOA to
facilitate interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a
network.
- Industry Standards: Standards such as ISA-S95
forms a key element of the architecture as well as other standards
including ISA-S88, PRODML, and OPC. Adoption of industry standards
improves interoperability and lowers total cost of ownership.
- Enterprise Connectivity: Integrates the data
from plant control systems and business systems to enable
management of day-to-day operations.
Benefits
- Lower IT Cost of Ownership. Aspen Integration
Infrastructure significantly lowers your IT cost of ownership and
seamlessly integrates into your existing enterprise
environment.
- Visualize the impact of business
decisions. Aspen Integration Infrastructure lets you
visualize the future impact of your business decisions by using
models and simulations that build upon investments already made by
using a consistent set of data, models, and assumptions.
- Improve organizational agility. Aspen
Integration Infrastructure leverages loosely coupled reusable
services and a flexible architecture adaptable to change.