This article has been distributed in multiple regions around the world. This placement in Chemical Weekly India, bylined to AspenTech’s Sunil Chaudhari, illustrates how chemical companies can use optimization software to help understand the range of possible responses to an unexpected event, operational upset or demand change. Complex supply chains have many degrees of freedom and it is virtually impossible to determine the impact of a decision without the help of leading technology such as aspenONE.

Costs continue to pressure food & beverage, biotech, pharma

Chemical Processing magazine readers sound off on their preferred technology vendors in the 2012 Readers' Choice Awards survey. AspenTech won the Process Simulation software and Plant Design software categories for the 9th and 8th consecutive years respectively.

From workflow to knowledge transfer

Dynamic processes call for virtual plant technology

Stability simulations

SCM technology to contribute to disaster reconstruction

Pharma collaboration, reauthorization, cheaper costs needed

IT infrastructure challenges

Supply & Demand Chain Executive Announces Its 2011 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100