Polymers
Economic headwinds, demand volatility and plastic waste pollution are challenging the industry. Our solutions address the unique needs of producers to optimize performance and production while innovating for a circular polymer lifecycle.
Chemical manufacturer Daicel faced a challenge when developing polymers with a narrow molecular weight distribution: their traditional methods relied heavily on time-consuming experiments. To overcome this hurdle, they collaborated with AspenTech to create a custom polymerization model within Aspen Polymers™.
This innovative solution accelerated the research period from 22 days to only 3 days, streamlined the product development process and provided Daicel with valuable insights for key decision-making throughout the project.
Improve Operational Excellence
- Reduce transition losses during grade changes
- Support decision making and enhance process safety across the enterprise
- Optimize maintenance costs and asset availability while cutting energy use and emissions
Decarbonization and Circularity
- Track emissions at an enterprise level and innovate for circular processes
- Expand renewable electricity to power operations and create bio-based polymer processes
- Reduce waste generation and minimize blue water consumption
Increase Value Chain Resiliency
- Ensure resiliency by improving agility of supply chains with better data visibility
- Streamline operations by digitalizing supply chain and manufacturing system workflows
- Improve tracking of circular raw materials
Achieve Optimal Design and Operations across the Engineering Lifecycle
- Reduce CAPEX and OPEX
- Make progress toward sustainability goals
- Improve performance, process safety and time-to-market
Achieve Supply Chain Resiliency while Meeting Sustainability Targets with a Comprehensive Planning and Scheduling Solution
- Maximize profitability by optimizing the supply chain network
- Reduce inventory and emissions across manufacturing assets
- Increase throughput by 20% and reduce costs with optimal scheduling
Scale Digitalization Initiatives with Data Integration and Contextualization
- Collect, aggregate, store and retrieve large volumes of data
- Contextualize data for any system, application or user
- Centralized security, data governance and access control
Achieve Operational Performance and Sustainability Goals
- Improve throughput by 2-5%
- Increase yield by up to 5%
- Reduce energy consumption by 10%
Predict and Minimize the Impact of Equipment Downtime
- Reduce maintenance costs 20-30% per year
- Empower your reliability and maintenance teams
- Increase throughput 1-5%
Case Study
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On-Demand Webinar
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Blog
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FAQ Document
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Video
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Case Study
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