Aspen Petroleum Scheduler

(formerly Aspen Orion XT)

Enables fast, accurate and collaborative creation of the operations schedule and facilitates integration of the scheduling and planning process

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Product Brochure

Aspen Petroleum Scheduler is an integrated system that supports comprehensive scheduling and optimization of refinery activities, including crude receipts, process operations, product blending, and product shipping. Aspen Petroleum Scheduler achieves more accurate, proactive scheduling and better coordination between scheduling, planning, operations and marketing. Aspen Petroleum Scheduler is a core element of aspenONE® Planning and Scheduling for Refining and Marketing.

Features

Integrated Planning, Scheduling and Blending: One solution for crude and feedstock scheduling, unit operations, product blending and product shipping enabling more accurate scheduling. It can be used with Aspen PIMS™ to tightly integrate planning and scheduling. For optimized blending, integration with Aspen Refinery Multi-Blend Optimizer provides the same graphical user interface, giving the scheduling staff the same “look and feel" for all its activities.
Scheduling Approaches and Automation: Incorporates three typical approaches to scheduling: simulation, linear programming and expert systems. Offers ability to include logic calculations using built-in logic authoring capability or Microsoft® tools.
Interactive Graphical User Interface: Easy to use graphical interface for building and maintaining a graphical representation of the refinery infrastructure. GUI components such as the Model Tree, Flowsheet Simulator and Event Interface support ease of use and enable changes in the model as operations dictates.
Multi-User Collaborative Scheduling: Allows multiple users to work simultaneously on activities. Users share the same view of the refinery schedule, which improves coordination between schedulers and with other departments. Changes to the schedule are managed and updates are provided to all users.
Common Model Environment: Common model is shared with Aspen PIMS which allows for common assays, process unit representations and blend correlations. This common model speeds implementation, using common assays and process unit representations.
Reporting & Solution Analysis Tools: Includes built-in reports and Microsoft Excel-based reports. Create and compare multiple cases that represent different operations of the refinery.

Benefits

Event-based Scheduling: Enables the calculations to properly reflect the sequence of events in the schedule. Provides compatibility between longer term (30-60 days) and shorter term scheduling (1-7 days).
Coordinated Scheduling: Helps companies increase throughput, reduce quality giveaway, inventories and demurrage and shorten shut-down and start-up cycles. Schedulers are better able to evaluate special opportunities and respond quicker to unplanned events. Reduces the gap between plant planning and scheduling.
Multi-User Collaboration: Streamlines the business processes that can be easily replicated within and across refineries. Provides a fast response to issues and opportunities. Enables knowledge capture from experienced schedulers that can be easily shared with new staff.
Improved Work Processes: Increases productivity by automating (fully or semi) both routine and complicated decision tasks that schedulers are faced with on a daily basis. “What-if” analysis helps schedulers determine the best schedule given potentially changing operating parameters and prices.