Pulp & Paper

Success Story
 With a nine-day warning,
the company changed operating
conditions to prevent a
catastrophe
CHALLENGE
A global manufacturer and marketer
of building products, tissue, packaging,
paper, cellulose and related chemicals
was experiencing numerous process and
mechanical events at a wood products
processing plant. These had negatively
affected overall product quality and also
resulted in throughput interruptions.
A leading pulp and paper
manufacturer detects
an overheating kiln and
avoids a major fire using
Aspen Mtell Previse.
SOLUTION BENEFITS
Following the implementation of • V
 ery shortly after going live, the Autonomous
Aspen Mtell technology, Autonomous Agent gave an alert to the recurrence of the
Agents successfully detected same overheating situation, with a nine-day
impending failures weeks in advance, warning. The company was able to respond
avoiding several costly shutdowns. immediately and change operating conditions
to completely avoid the imminent catastrophe.
By scanning archived data in the
plant historian and correlating with
posted failure incidents in its asset
management system, Aspen Mtell
successfully identified the early
signature of an overheating
situation in a kiln.
AspenTech is a leading software supplier for optimizing asset performance. Our products
thrive in complex, industrial environments where it is critical to optimize the asset design,
operation and maintenance lifecycle. AspenTech uniquely combines decades of process
modeling expertise with big data machine-learning. Our purpose-built software platform
automates knowledge work and builds sustainable competitive advantage by delivering high
returns over the entire asset lifecycle. As a result, companies in capital-intensive industries
can maximize uptime and push the limits of performance, running their assets faster, safer,
longer and greener.

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