Aspen Basic Engineering

Enables concurrent basic engineering, produces basic engineering deliverables, and supports lifecycle process engineering.
Aspen Basic Engineering is a scalable, global process engineering platform, tying together all elements of front-end design. With a focus on the basic engineering function, Aspen Basic Engineering provides tight integration with the latest releases of all major process simulation, cost estimation, and equipment design programswhether theyre commercially available or developed in-house.

The Challenge: Do More with Fewer Engineers

With capital project investments in an upward cycle across the process power, generation and mining industries, design work on these projects faces a global shortage of experienced engineers. More specifically, Aspen Basic Engineering addresses these key business issues in the process engineering function: Need to perform concurrent basic engineering across several disciplines and by teams located in different geographies or at different subcontractor firms, working on one accurate design database. Requirement to manage process information consistentlythroughout the engineering and asset lifecyclesimproving design quality, as-built accuracy, and ability to recycle operating information for future designs. Imperative to deliver accurate cost estimation earlier into the concept design and basic design stages. Need to impose standard practices and methods enterprise-wide to ensure design quality, reduce maintenance costs, and ensure safety compliance. Capture best practices and design knowledge to improve the ability of less experienced engineers in delivering high-quality designs.

The Solution: Integrated Process Engineering for Fast, Accurate, Consistent Results
Aspen Basic Engineering is an industry-leading process engineering solution that enables global organizations to seamlessly and accurately tie together all aspects of front-end design and basic engineering. Powerful and comprehensive, it integrates all major process simulation programs, equipment design programs, cost estimation and in-house design tools.

Flexible, out-of-the-box Datasheet and PFD and P&ID creation tools help streamline engineering workflows, enabling faster, more efficient collaboration across the organization.

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In addition to providing an accurate and constantly updated information source for process design, Aspen Basic Engineering offers a robust set of out-of-the-box design deliverables, such as multi-disciplinary datasheets, PFDs, P&IDs, and equipment lists. To support downstream engineering workflows, Aspen Basic Engineering enables the expansion of simulations to process flow diagrams and process flow diagram to P&IDs, maintaining design information and consistent connectivity. Aspen Basic Engineering also supports the transmittal of basic design data to detailed design, providing an interface to Intergraph and AVEVA systems. Aspen Basic Engineering further manages process design information throughout the lifecycle of a facility. This enables engineering teams to share process and equipment information in a secure, access-controlled environment while debottlenecking the process.

Benefits
As an industry-leading process engineering solution, Aspen Basic Engineering improves the basic engineering function, enables rapid transition from concept engineering to basic engineering, and allows for the delivery of electronic data to detailed design and procurement. Significantly reduces elapsed time by up to 50% for the front-end design (FEL or FEED) process.1 Improves engineering efficiency by up to 30% 1 and reduces probability of design inconsistencies by eliminating data transcription between engineering tools and disciplines. Takes advantage of an enterprises global engineering resources by providing a platform to seamlessly enable worldwide access to engineering tools while working from a single database across multiple locations and disciplines. Reuses best-practice design modules, saving re-design time for commonly used systems and units. Implements enterprise-wide and global design standardization of procedures and methods. Leverages global purchasing power. Achieves best-possible cost and budget estimation early in the concept and basic design stages.

Worley Parsons, a global E&C organization servicing the process industry, employs Aspen Basic Engineering to: Streamline engineering workflow Remove barriers and bottlenecks in project engineering Support global work sharing Execute projects faster Deliver better overall value to clients

Features
Lifecycle Engineering Data Repository
Object-oriented data repository. Business object layer implemented on industry-standard Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases. Security and project integrity. Access and ability to create and change information based on project and facility roles. Comprehensive process data model. Stable CCDM data model represents hundreds of man-years of process knowledge, including contributions from early-adopter user companies, covering a full range of process and mechanical design data objects for all equipment types. Sellafield Ltd (Formerly BNFL), a UK-based nuclear fuel reprocessor, employs Aspen Basic Engineering to: Reduce the time to produce process engineering deliverables by 40% Maintain quality by use of rules to enforce company standards, facilitate design reuse, and avoid re-input of data Achieve cradle-to-grave asset management for lifecycle process data Achieve ISO conformance

Based on actual customer results, Ref: Focus on Integrated FEED, Hydrocarbon Engineering, Jan. 2007

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Design and Deliverable Templates and Views
Conduct design work from block diagrams, PFD, P&ID, MSD, DPTD, Microsoft Excel, or datasheet view. Over 140 out-of-the box datasheet templatesincluding API, PIP, and NORSOK templatescovering five design disciplines. Create custom datasheets as needed. Employ MS Excel and MS Word as data input or display methods, including MS Excel datasheets. Populate and maintain documents from a central data repository. Issue released documents in PDF, DWG, DXF, or DGN formats. Semi-automatic expansion from simulation to PFD and PFD to P&ID design phases, maintaining data integrity and design connectivity, but allowing individual company work processes to govern the activity.

Support Engineering Processes

Define access and security by project roles. Manage release and review of documents (e.g., datasheets, PFDs, lists) separately or in groups. Flexible to fit an organizations existing engineering workflow.

Detailed Engineering Integration

Hand off data for detailed design to Intergraph SmartPlant Suite through a point-and-click interface. Leverage ISO 15926 vendor-neutral interface.

Design Re-Use and Process Licensor Application

Save whole or partial designs and documents into a library of modular design templates and re-use in future projects. Provide design deliverables to detailed designer, constructor, or owner-operator while protecting process intellectual property.

Design Tools Integration

Load multiple cases of data from all major process simulators. Current integration is with Aspen Plus, Aspen HYSYS, PROVISION 8, Aspen Custom Modeler. Transfer data to heat exchanger design programs (Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger and Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger, Aspen Shell & Tube Mechanical, HTRI XIST 5). Integrate with company-proprietary design tools and other third-party tools, achieving complete coverage of the basic engineering function.

Configurable to Your Standards and Systems

Configure to match company or project-specific standards. Capture engineering standards and best practices in built-in knowledge base. Seamlessly integrate third-party or in-house proprietary engineering applications through COM, .NET, XML, and MS Excel interfaces.

Cost Estimation Integration

Transfer data to Aspen Capital Cost Estimator to perform (or re-baseline) cost estimates. Aspen Basic Engineering has proven to perform in large-scale project environments such as: 700 engineering users across a global owner-operator 300 concurrent users at a global E&C organization 180 users across 3 continents at a global chemical company Lifecycle process information repository for major facilities at Sellafield Ltd A $4 billion Greenfield Petrochemical Complex Capital project

Concurrent Engineering
Perform concurrent design work and merge modified data. Enable interdisciplinary workflow. Manage design cases or options separately. Proven scalability to perform reliably with thousands of users and projects, as well as complex unit and equipment configurations and connectivity. Support for WAN and Internet for global teams and external team members.

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Industry Standards
AspenTech is a member of the FIATECH industry consortium. FIATECH seeks to facilitate automation and integration of technology used on capital projects in the process industries. Aspen Basic Engineering supports API standard datasheets, NORSOK datasheets, and the Process Industries Practice (PIP) standard.

Worldwide Headquarters
Aspen Technology, Inc. 200 Wheeler Road Burlington, MA 01803 phone: +1-781-221-6400 fax: +1-781-221-6410 info@aspentech.com

aspenONE Process Engineering

Aspen Basic Engineering is a key component of aspenONE Process Engineering for the process industries. aspenONE Process Engineering is an integrated lifecycle solutionfrom conceptual design through to plant start-up and operations supportenabling you to model, build, and operate safer, competitive, and more reliable process plants. Companies are able to reduce capital and operating costs, increase engineering efficiency and quality, and accelerate time-to-market with payback in months instead of years.

EMEA Headquarters
AspenTech Ltd. C1, Reading Intl Business Park Basingstoke Road Reading UK RG2 6DT phone: +44-(0)-1189-226400 fax: +44-(0)-1189-226401 ATE_info@aspentech.com

About AspenTech
AspenTech is a leading supplier of software that optimizes process manufacturingincluding oil and gas, petroleum, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and other industries that manufacture and produce products from a chemical process. With integrated aspenONE solutions, process manufacturers can implement best practices for optimizing their engineering, manufacturing and supply chain operations. As a result, AspenTech customers are better able to increase capacity, improve margins, reduce costs and become more energy efficient. To see how the worlds leading process manufacturers rely on AspenTech to achieve their operational excellence goals, visit www.aspentech.com.

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