Aspen Simulation Workbook

Deploy engineering models and automate conceptual design workflows using

Microsoft Excel
Aspen Simulation Workbook provides seamless integration between AspenTechs engineering tools and
Microsoft Excel, allowing you to deploy models to a wider range of users. The result is new levels of
value to your company through improved productivity during conceptual design and the expanded
use of process models in operations for performance monitoring, better decisions, and optimization.

Leveraging Process Models to Create Added Value

Simulation models are powerful tools for process design and revamps, yet many companies fail to leverage models beyond the
design process due to perceived complexities. Modeling experts typically move on to the next design project, plant engineers
may not have enough knowledge of the process simulator and have other responsibilities, and automating models requires
expertise in programming.
Aspen Simulation Workbook addresses these issues by enabling seamless interoperability between AspenTechs engineering
tools and Microsoft Excelwith no programming required. It brings the power of process modeling to a wider range of users,
allowing companies to expand the use of process models to solve plant operating problems such as equipment troubleshooting,
performance improvement and other plant studies, driving greater value from your simulation investment.

Reported Benefits
Up to 5% increase in throughput resulting
from improved operations
Enhanced speed and consistency of extracting
key results from process simulation, heat
exchanger design cases and dynamic models
Increased design quality with greater crossfunctional participation
Up to 10% reduced energy use by presenting
operators with operating advice based on
current operating conditions
Improved operating margins from better and
consistent planning and business decisions
Months of saved labor by eliminating the
need to write program code

Microsoft Excel-based end-user interface enables process models

to be used widely for operations decision-making.

Key Technical Features

Rapidly develop user interfaces: Users follow a simple copy/paste workflow to attach
model variables to tables in Microsoft Excel. The interfaces can be enhanced with buttons
and other form controls to make it easy to initialize, run, and view the results within
Microsoft Excel.
Link models to plant data: Plant data tags can be linked to Microsoft Excel using the
standard features of most process historians.
Faster than ever before: With Aspen Plus or HYSYS V8, you can create an ASW worksheet
in minutes by exporting the Model Summary Grid to Excel. This also makes it quick and
easy to create live, interactive stream tables in ASW.
Run scenarios: Use the Scenario Table to rapidly run hundreds of scenarios through your
model to analyze historical data, analyze process sensitivity, check design cases, etc.
Support dynamic models: Develop interfaces to batch models or dynamic models of
continuous processes, and display the model results in profile tables or Microsoft Excelbased strip charts; users can interact with the models as they run and see the results in
real-or faster-than-real-time.
Automate workflow: Easily automate repetitive tasks, such as extracting data from
simulations to rapidly generate reports and charts using Microsoft Excel.
Link models to third-party tools: Typical applications include risk management software,
equipment design tools, Monte-Carlo optimization engines, or cost estimation tools.

Added Value of Integration

Aspen Simulation Workbook is tightly integrated with other aspenONE Engineering solutions:
Aspen Plus, including Aspen Polymers, Aspen Rate-Based Distillation, and
Aspen Plus Dynamics
Aspen HYSYS, including Aspen HYSYS Dynamics and Aspen HYSYS Upstream
Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining, including reactor calibration environments
Aspen Custom Modeler and related products including Aspen Adsorption and
Aspen Chromatography (all run modes are supported)
Aspen Exchanger Design and Rating (EDR) product family
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aspenONE Engineering is an integrated lifecycle solutionfrom conceptual design through plant startup
and operations supportenabling you to model, build, and operate safer, more efficient and more
competitive process plants. AspenTechs Engineering Professional Services helps ensure that your
project achieves its maximum potential by leveraging our unparalleled industry expertise to design,
analyze, debottleneck, and improve plant performance. Combined with our world-class 24/7 technical
support service, flexible training options, including online training from within the software, proprietary
search engine to locate and re-use models and data, and local language product availability, AspenTech
provides the resources to enable your company to meet and exceed its business objectives.

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About AspenTech
AspenTech is a leading supplier of software that optimizes process manufacturingfor energy, chemicals,
engineering and construction, 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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