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

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.
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.
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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 Significantly reduces elapsed time by up to 50% for the
Basic Engineering improves the basic engineering function, front-end design (FEL or FEED) process.1
enables rapid transition from concept engineering to basic Improves engineering efficiency by up to 30% 1 and reduces
engineering, and allows for the delivery of electronic data to probability of design inconsistencies by eliminating data
detailed design and procurement. 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.
Worley Parsons, a global E&C organization
Reuses best-practice design modules, saving re-design time
servicing the process industry, employs
for commonly used systems and units.
Aspen Basic Engineering to:
Implements enterprise-wide and global design
Streamline engineering workflow standardization of procedures and methods.
Remove barriers and bottlenecks in Leverages global purchasing power.
project engineering Achieves best-possible cost and budget estimation early in
Support global work sharing the concept and basic design stages.
Execute projects faster
Deliver better overall value to clients

Features

Lifecycle Engineering Data Repository Sellafield Ltd (Formerly BNFL), a UK-based

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

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Based on actual customer results, Ref: Focus on Integrated FEED, Hydrocarbon Engineering, Jan. 2007

Features (continued)
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.
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.
Cost Estimation Integration
Transfer data to Aspen Capital Cost Estimator to perform
(or re-baseline) cost estimates.
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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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.
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.
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
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