aspenONE® MES

Turn data into profit with the industry’s most comprehensive MES solution
on the market

aspenONE MES delivers more efficient data management, improved production execution, and
enhanced performance management—enabling process manufacturers to quickly tap into their
business intelligence and turn data into profit. Boasting the industry’s best and most widely used data
historian on the market, Aspen InfoPlus.21® forms the core of the aspenONE MES solution, providing a
solid foundation for achieving manufacturing excellence.

The Challenge: Optimize Manufacturing to

Improve Profitability
Key Benefits
Manufacturers across the process industries must work with
• Easier and faster access to information
increasing speed and responsiveness to keep pace with growing
• Faster and smarter business decisions
global competition and changing market conditions. It has become
• Better alignment between operational and a competitive necessity to achieve excellence in execution with
financial goals consistent and predictable performance. Towards that end,
• Accelerate root cause analysis and manufacturers are looking for ways to preserve margins, improve
corrective action product quality, make the best use of global assets, and meet
• Optimize asset utilization regulatory compliance to maximize profitability.
• Automated workflow and order tracking for
improved consistency, better production
The aspenONE MES Advantage
tracking and reduced errors
aspenONE MES aggregates process, production and business
• Integrated tools and training for greater user
information into a cohesive context with fast data discovery tools,
effectiveness
automated workflow and order tracking, as well as extensive
analytical, notification and visualization capabilities. Covering all
aspects of the ISA-S95 activity model, manufacturers are able to
easily exchange real-time information between the shop floor and the rest of the enterprise to create actionable intelligence and
optimize manufacturing excellence. The end result is lower operating costs, reduced variability and improved asset utilization—
optimizing bottom line profitability.
aspenONE MES - Data Management
The Data Management capabilities within aspenONE MES puts information at your
fingertips anytime, anywhere by collecting and organizing process data across disparate
systems and distributing it across the enterprise—making it easy to optimize the value
of your data.

Unlock Value with the Industry’s

Best Data Historian
Aspen InfoPlus.21 collects and stores large volumes
of real-time and historical data from process control,
manufacturing operations, and business systems—
forming the foundation for an enterprise-level
platform. Rich calculation, analysis and visualization
tools unlock data value, allowing you to compare
performance across a fleet of assets to identify best
practices and disseminate them to processes and
sites needing improvement. It is completely scalable
and flexible—from a single process to enterprise-
wide global deployments involving hundreds of
locations—easily making it the most comprehensive
data historian on the market. Aspen InfoPlus.21 unlocks data value with rich calculation, analysis
and visualization tools

Quickly Configure IO Records

Tight integration between Microsoft® Excel and Aspen InfoPlus.21 allows users to quickly upload new data tags.
The Configuration Excel Add-In enables users to create and configure IO records directly from Excel and also
provides templates for easy system migrations.

Track, Trend, and Analyze Data

Compare and contrast different campaigns or
events with Aspen Production Record Manager.
The solution allows you to record and view any
process data that has a defined beginning and
end, such as batches, refinery product blends,
and transitions. Troubleshoot production issues
by querying specific batches and production
runs based on conditions of interest such as
material characteristics and process conditions.

Tight integration between Microsoft Excel and Aspen InfoPlus.21 allows

users to quickly upload new data tags

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aspenONE MES - Data Management
Facilitate Data Sharing Between Applications
aspenONE MES has powerful connectivity capabilities to facilitate data sharing. Data can be shared via several
industry standard mechanisms—Aspen CIM-IO, Web Services, ODBC, and Process Data — making it easy to
pull data and extract value.

Enhance Data Management with Intelligent Search

Bring speed and intelligence to data discovery with instantaneous search access to all tags across the
enterprise. Quickly find and visualize relevant information with full-text search and hit highlighting across all
your tags metadata attributes. Faceted search enables you to locate information based on numerous
characteristics, tag types, and tag attributes. Results are organized by relevance and previews are available for
all historical attributes, enabling faster information discovery.

Speed Analysis with High Performance Trends

Built on HTML5 technology, aspenONE MES
provides powerful trending capabilities:

• Analyze dozens of tags on a single plot

• Better contextualization with the use of
spark lines and trend previews
• Bulk editing of tag properties in the legend
and the ability to add custom columns
• Easily view any part of the HTML5 trends
independently, allowing you to easily create
custom tables of a list of tags

Get Up to Speed Faster with High performance trends expand accessibility and provide large amounts of
Online Training contextualized data very fast, speeding analysis time
Aspen Online Training makes it easy to
quickly gain the knowledge you need to perform your job more efficiently with on-demand access to a
wealth of training materials—right from inside the product. Learn basic features through “Getting Started”
animated tutorials or expand your skill set with brief 3-5 minute “Best Practice” tutorials to accelerate your
learning curve.

Related Products
• Aspen InfoPlus.21
• Aspen Production Record
Manager
• Aspen CIM-IO
• Aspen Manufacturing
Master Data Manager

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aspenONE MES – Production Execution
Manufacturers are under intense pressure to maintain high profit margins and be
operationally agile while demonstrating both internal and external compliance.
aspenONE MES delivers these capabilities by providing automated workflow and order
tracking to facilitate improved consistency, better production tracking, and reduced
errors. Consistent, repeatable work processes maximize the efficiency of the production
asset, assuring faster time-to-market.

Consistently Manage Production Workflow

Achieve total procedural control in manufacturing work processes with Aspen Production Execution Manager.
The solution provides workflow, order, and recipe management for pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals,
consumer packaged goods, and other manufacturing industries according to current Good Manufacturing
Practice (cGMP) guidelines. Changes required in standard operating procedures, master recipes and operating
instructions can be handled with relative ease, reducing the time needed to introduce new products and make
production changes.

Be Ready for Any Performance Audit

aspenONE MES is also an enterprise level audit compliance solution. Maintain
control of your workflow and ensure the production record is complete and
complies with in-house, 21CFR P11 or cGxP standards. The solution collects and
manages large amounts of continuous, batch, lot and process data and
associates it with the appropriate batch. It then uses this information to identify
deviations and manage the associated workflows required for deviation review
and approval. Breeze through QA audits and achieve faster time-to-market.

• Automate the audit and compliance process, including the incorporation of

all batch deviations and their associated comment and signoff history into the electronic batch record
• Enforce the signoff and approval process before allowing a batch record to be signed off for release
• Single server implementation provides a low cost, enterprise level compliance solution

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aspenONE MES – Production Execution
Track Production Genealogy
Aspen Production Record Manager provides native forensic
genealogy capabilities, allowing you to easily track material
movement, both backwards and forwards, through the whole
production process. View and explore relationships and shared
attributes between batches, sub-batches and resulting products,
and trace to the batch attribute level to assess what happened
during past production runs and to identify root causes of product
quality differences. For example, if a lot is returned by a customer,
you can quickly analyze which other lot(s) might be affected by
searching through all intermediates and involved process steps,
helping to limit liability risk and product loss. These capabilities are
not found anywhere else in the market. Easily view the relationship between parent and child
batches

Track Planned Versus Actual Production

Profiles
Aspen Golden Batch Profiler monitors the progress of continuous
and batch production against an ideal profile and provides
structured workflow for continuous quality improvement.
Excursions from optimal profiles are identified early in the
manufacturing cycle to reduce variability and improve batch quality.

Monitor in real-time process variables within a pre-configured

envelope for a given production or batch context. Records can be
organized into any sequence that has a defined beginning and end
and may be statistically analyzed to determine the envelope. The
tool provides an environment for building simple, heuristic models
representing “ideal or golden profiles”. Process variables can then
be monitored against the ideal profile from a variety of client
applications. When out of control conditions occur, alarm
notifications are generated, initiating root cause analysis, corrective
action and recording of steps to facilitate continuous improvement. Process variables can be monitored, viewed and
compared against the ideal or best profile

Related Products
• Aspen Production Execution
Manager
• Aspen Production Record Manager
• Aspen Golden Batch Profiler

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aspenONE MES – Performance Management
Good performance management requires integrated analysis with all process and
production information so that performance may be tracked in real-time. aspenONE MES
fills this need, enabling process manufacturers to quickly identify manufacturing
performance problems, assess root causes, and take corrective action.

Explore New Dimensions in Performance Analysis

Reduce the time spent investigating the root
cause of plant problems by easily extracting data
from Aspen InfoPlus.21 products into Microsoft
Excel, leveraging the power of Excel for deeper
performance analysis. Integration with Microsoft
PowerPivot and Power View makes it possible to
create analyses that can be updated
automatically and distributed throughout the
enterprise with SharePoint 2010. Distribute
parameterized reports with automatic updates
upon recall. 64-bit performance with enhanced
visualization and navigation provides better “in
context” data. The intelligence gleaned from
such analyses opens up new opportunities to
Create customized analyses by leveraging the power of Microsoft
optimize performance and maximize profitability.
PowerPivot/Power View and SharePoint 2010

Access Vital Plant Data—Anytime, Anywhere

Flexible data access is an important business need. Aspen InfoPlus.21
Mobile provides users across the enterprise with mobile access to
real-time and historical plant data anytime, anywhere—enabling real-
time insight into operational and business performance. Configure
email and text alerts to notify you of significant process excursions so
you can take immediate corrective action and minimize the
operational and financial impact of upset conditions. The solution
leverages industry standard security technologies and protocols to ensure a secure environment for accessing
critical manufacturing data.

Incrementally Improve Any Batch or Continuous Process

Use any production marker, such as a batch number, lot number, or refinery blend type, and quickly gather all the
relevant information that describes a defined production time period (the production context), regardless of the
data source. Aspen Production Record Manager allows you to seamlessly overlay all relevant data (historian, ERP,
lab, etc.) so that you can visually determine areas for improvement or compare/contrast with similar production
runs. Perform incremental ad hoc analysis or implementation to accelerate root cause detection and analyze
problems not previously possible, such as catalyst deactivation cycles or production shifts, driving improved
manufacturing performance.

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aspenONE MES – Performance Management
Align Operations with Business Objectives
Often there is no clear visibility of performance and its connection to business financial objectives. Aspen KPI
Builder bridges the gap with a template environment for creating and testing KPI definitions that align plant
operational decisions with corporate and financial objectives.

KPIs can be defined which merge real-time data from aspenONE MES Data
Management solutions with key operational and financial goals and other
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applications such as process models or scheduling. As a result, the real-time view
• Aspen InfoPlus.21 Mobile
allows everyone to see the cost impact of their decisions and drive towards
• Aspen Real-Time Statistical
operational excellence. A built-in KPI Creation Wizard simplifies setup of Process Control Analyzer
operational KPIs to accelerate time-to-value. • Aspen KPI Builder
For batch processes, Aspen Production Record Manager provides a single, • Aspen Role-Based Visualization
dynamic view that aggregates key metrics from multiple systems so that you can • Aspen Process Explorer
easily determine what is stable and what needs immediate attention. • Aspen IP.21 Process Browser

Visualize Information Relevant to Your Role

Aspen Role-Based Visualization is a rich portal environment that allows you to aggregate content from multiple
sources into a web-based graphical user interface. Easily add KPIs with built-in grid and dashboard
components, utilize high performance trending, or create/customize visualization graphics using dynamic
content. The powerful personalization features enable customization of work environments that are relevant to
the needs of the user.

For added flexibility, an Operations Navigator option and the RTView dashboard component makes it even
easier for SharePoint 2010 users to create actionable business intelligence.

Real-Time SPC Product Quality Control

Statistical Process Control is a well known technique for improving
manufacturing processes. However, SPC capabilities are often not
integrated with all of the necessary information for making the best
decisions, leading to delays in recognizing, notifying and correcting
problems.

Aspen Real-Time Statistical Process Control Analyzer is a performance

management tool for continuous and batch operations, applying statistical
process control techniques to process data in real-time. The solution
works in conjunction with Aspen InfoPlus.21 and/or Aspen Production
Record Manager to perform SPC monitoring, analysis and alarming of Monitor the quality of important product
operating data. Histograms, Pareto charts and a wide variety of SPC charts streams using Aspen Real-Time Statistical
and other graphic displays are provided. Alarms are automatically generated Process Control Analyzer
in real-time from user-defined control chart alarm rules. Users have the
capability to dynamically recalculate process control limits and SPC values based on changes in process values.
The end result is improved product quality and reduced manufacturing costs for continuous and batch SPC
operations.

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aspenONE MES covers all aspects of the ISA-S95 activity

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