Crude scheduling and product blending.

Software enables refineries to respond more quickly to market volatility and optimise product blending.

Software that automates two of refining’s most time-intensive and margin-critical processes: crude scheduling and product blending has been introduced by Emerson. The new solutions enable refineries to increase operating margins, improve efficiency and respond faster to market changes.

Customers use Aspen Unified Scheduling™ (AUS) to eliminate the disconnected tools and manual data gathering that make scheduling harder during volatile markets. AUS now adds two new products – Crude Schedule Optimisation and Multi-Blend Optimisation – that bring planning, scheduling and blending into one platform. As a result, customers can turn optimal plans into realistic schedules fast enough to keep up with changing market conditions.

“Refinery schedulers are managing more complexity and greater crude market volatility, with the same hours in the day,” said Claudio Fayad, chief technology officer at Emerson’s Aspen Technology business. “By automating the most time-intensive workflows within a unified platform, our solutions free experienced teams to focus on higher-value decisions while enabling newer engineers to contribute faster. The result is stronger margins and better operational decisions across the organisation.”

Optimising crude scheduling.
Crude Schedule Optimisation takes refinery data from Aspen Unified PIMS™ and automatically determines the optimal crude receipts, transfers, blends and production schedules to maximise margins. By minimising manual work and enabling rapid ‘what if’ scenario testing, refineries can improve scheduling precision, thereby reducing errors and enabling rapid response to crude market fluctuations and price opportunities.

Maximising blending efficiency.
Multi-Blend Optimisation simultaneously optimises the recipe of each individual batch of blended product within the scheduling window. It continuously optimises product qualities and balances production against market conditions and operational constraints, while ensuring compliance with quality specifications. By making optimal use of available blend components, refineries reduce quality giveaway, lower blend component costs and improve profitability.

Both solutions are offered as separately licensed products available within Aspen Unified Scheduling. As part of the broader Aspen Unified™ solution, Aspen Unified Scheduling connects data, optimisation and execution – reducing manual intervention, improving operational consistency and accelerating the speed of critical business decisions.

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Accelerating enterprise-scale intelligence.

Next-generation industrial data fabric, providing foundation for highly integrated industrial data platform.

Major advancements to the AspenTech Inmation™ OT Data Fabric have been annoinced by Emerson, establishing it as the foundational enterprise-scale intelligence layer for the AspenTech Inmation Data Platform. The enhanced Inmation OT Data Fabric creates a modern industrial data backbone designed to scale with customers as their digital needs evolve, supporting advanced analytics, AI capabilities and the development of an enterprise operations platform that connects data, context and decision-making across the organisation.

With an always‑on foundation to unify operational technology data, the Inmation OT Data Fabric makes it easier to connect systems, apply consistent context and governance, and deliver trusted, real‑time information wherever it is needed. Running across edge, on‑premise and cloud environments, the data fabric enables industrial companies to standardise how data is managed and shared across the enterprise.

The next-generation data fabric serves as the essential building block of an AI-ready and deeply integrated Inmation Data Platform designed to support a growing suite of modules for virtualisation, workflow engines, applications, private clouds and more. Scalable across legacy and modern environments, the Inmation Data Platform will transform operations without disruption and unlock enterprise-wide visibility, agility and decision intelligence.

“The AspenTech Inmation OT Data Fabric is at the core of how we unify and contextualise industrial data, and its new capabilities significantly strengthen that foundation,” said Claudio Fayad, chief technology officer at Emerson’s Aspen Technology business. “By making the data fabric more scalable, flexible and enterprise-ready, we’ve created the technical underpinning required of our Inmation Data Platform to support analytics, AI‑driven workflows and increasingly autonomous operations over time.”

The latest release of AspenTech Inmation OT Data Fabric simplifies how industrial data environments are deployed, scaled and secured. A new distributed node‑based architecture replaces rigid components with a modular foundation that delivers consistent behaviour across sites while reducing operational complexity. This design enables customers to expand from individual plants to global deployments using a common operating model with centralised security, governance and lifecycle management.

The enhanced data fabric also delivers greater flexibility and scale across distributed industrial environments, enabling end-to-end edge to cloud deployment with consistent operation on Windows and Linux platforms, including lightweight edge systems.

Improvements in hierarchical data modelling, performance and distributed computing allow the fabric to scale horizontally as data volumes and organisational complexity grow. Combined with an embedded web‑based interface and APIs, these capabilities provide a reliable, real‑time foundation for analytics, AI‑enabled workflows and enterprise intelligence initiatives across the customer’s OT infrastructure and the AspenTech Inmation industrial data platform.

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Supporting Texas' energy needs.

Expanded collaboration with state’s largest electric delivery company focuses on future-proofing the grid, supporting safe and reliable energy delivery

Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC (Oncor) has selected AspenTech Digital Grid Management (DGM) solutions to optimise real-time grid operations and strengthen its digital foundation to safely and reliably deliver energy to a growing number of Texas customers and continue to support the state’s economic growth.

“Innovation is essential to how Oncor prepares for the evolving energy needs of a rapidly growing Texas,” said Malia Hodges, senior vice president and chief information officer at Oncor. “We are investing in advanced operational technologies that enable greater visibility, faster response and long‑term resilience across our system. Emerson’s commitment to innovation aligns closely with our strategy as we enhance grid resiliency and continue to support Texas’s growth and increasing energy demands.”

Oncor is expanding its multi-year relationship with Emerson through its recent selection of the AspenTech OSI Advanced Distribution Management System™ (ADMS) to improve visibility and automation of Oncor’s distribution grid and gain advanced capabilities to scale outage management and workforce coordination.

Oncor has also selected AspenTech Cimphony Network Model Management™ for its transmission environment to enhance Oncor’s grid data modelling, validation and synchronisation, including data exchanges and interoperability between Oncor and Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). 

 “Emerson and Oncor have a strong history of collaboration,” said Stuart Harris, general manager, digital grid management at Emerson’s Aspen Technology business. “Oncor is at the forefront of applying advanced technology and work processes to modernise its grid. Our digital grid management solutions will help enable Oncor’s approach, positioning Oncor to support Texas’s growth and increasing energy demand while enhancing grid resiliency.”

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Planning and operational efficiency improving refining operations.

AI solution is aimed at higher refinery yield volume and efficiencies.

Emerson has announced the successful deployment of an Ai-driven optimisation solution for Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies. The collaboration commenced with the integration of Emerson’s Aspen Hybrid Models™ into Aramco’s existing refinery planning framework, resulting in the creation of one of the world’s largest multi-site, multi-period optimisation models.

By combining first-principles models, deep domain expertise, and purpose-built industrial Ai, Aspen Hybrid Models™ capture nonlinear relationships in yield and quality responses, significantly enhancing the accuracy of refinery planning models. The deployment has already achieved yield and quality prediction accuracy of up to 98.5% in key refinery units.

These hybrid Ai models have been implemented in Continuous Catalyst Regeneration (CCR) and Platformer Units, where they are enabling more precise feedstock blending, minimising gaps between planning and execution, and improving the accuracy of margin forecasting across Aramco’s global refining network.

Current efforts are focused on expanding the hybrid modelling approach to hydrocracker units across Aramco’s assets. This expansion is expected to further enhance model accuracy and demonstrate the scalability and robustness of this Ai-driven optimisation strategy across the enterprise.

“This deployment represents a significant milestone in Aramco’s AI strategy and our long-standing relationship with Emerson,” said Ahmad Alkudmani, director of the global optimiser department at Aramco. “We are committed to leveraging innovative technologies for smarter, more efficient refining optimisation. With improved model accuracy, we are enhancing planning decisions, reducing the manual adjustments required from our engineers, and uncovering new value across our global assets.”

Key benefits Aramco aims to achieve with Aspen Hybrid Models include:

• 98.5% yield and quality prediction accuracy – Substantially increasing yield volume and enhancing stream quality across diverse feedstocks, operating conditions and throughputs
• Efficiency through optimised feedstock blending – Diversifying feedstock selection and blending recipes to enable more profitable and sustainable operations
• Reduced planning-execution gaps – Minimising discrepancies between plans and actual plant performance, reducing the need for manual adjustments
• Enhanced model accuracy – Capturing complex non-linearities in critical unit operations such as reactors
• Improved operational efficiency – Automating model updates and reducing manual tuning requirements
• Scalable global solution – Maintaining model applicability across a wide range of refinery operations worldwide

Aramco is using Aspen Hybrid Models built and deployed in Emerson’s AspenTech Performance Engineering and Manufacturing and Supply Chain product suites. As a result, Aramco was able to create highly accurate nonlinear optimisations using thousands of converged simulation cases built upon rigorous first-principles models calibrated with actual plant data. The approach provides Aramco with a scalable, robust tool for global refinery planning.

“Aramco continues to set the standard for operational excellence through digital innovation,” said Claudio Fayad, chief technology officer of Emerson's Aspen Technology business. “This deployment of AI-driven Aspen Hybrid Models to optimise complex, multi-site, multi-period planning workflows demonstrates the tangible value of combining deep domain expertise with advanced AI. We are excited to expand our strategic relationship with Aramco as they advance their digital transformation goals.”

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How emerging technologies are driving operational performance.

Emerson have announced OPTIMIZE™ 26, the premier event for users of AspenTech solutions, scheduled for held 11-14, 2026, in Houston (TX USA). The conference will bring together 1,300 attendees from more than 50 countries to discover how advanced optimisation technologies, including industrial AI and operational data management, are shaping the future of industrial innovation.

The event, themed ‘Powering Performance’, will include a new Innovation Zone with interactive technology hubs and dedicated tracks for the process and power & utilities industries, allowing customers to select an experience tailored to their specific industry. Executives, operational leaders and users will hear from more than 80 peers about real-world examples of operational excellence, digital transformation and sustainability, while experts from Emerson’s Aspen Technology business will share the latest software innovations driving industry change.

“OPTIMIZE is where our community of process and power & utilities customers come together to shape the future of industry,” said Vincent Servello, president of Emerson’s Aspen Technology business. “With most of the agenda delivered by customers, attendees connect directly with peers to share experiences and learn from each other’s success. From exclusive first looks at our latest innovations to immersive keynotes, sessions and demos, OPTIMIZE creates a forum for industrial leaders to exchange insights on how industrial AI and data management are transforming operations and maximising the value of existing asset investments.”

The Innovation Zone at OPTIMIZE 26 will allow customers to engage with fellow innovators and explore the latest AspenTech solutions through live, hands-on demos. AspenTech product and strategy experts will be available to discuss best practices, address specific challenges and share insights on key industry trends.

Attendees can continue their skills development and earn Continuing Education Units with training courses offered for both process and power & utilities industries. Customised learning experiences that include guidance on topic fundamentals and hands-on workshops for industry workflows allow participants to strengthen their competencies around AspenTech solutions and drive innovation at their organisation.

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Grid management solutions to advance energy reliability and decarbonisation.

Supporting stable and safe energy supply throughout Spain.

Emerson's AspenTech Digital Grid Management solutions are being used by Enagás, S.A., to monitor, operate and optimise Spain’s gas transmission network. As Spain’s national gas grid operator, Enagás relies on Emerson’s software to support the continuity, safety and security of the country’s natural gas supply.

Emerson helps Enagás manage more than 11,000 kilometres of gas pipeline, while driving the digital innovation needed to operate its network with more diverse gases such as biomethane and hydrogen. Enagás’ advanced energy infrastructure puts it in a position to meet ambitious business goals, safeguard pipe
line operations and maintain best-in-class energy delivery for Spain.

Enagás uses AspenTech OSI monarch SCADA™ and AspenTech OSI Continua Pipeline Management™ for the supervision of the gas transmission network. Enagás benefits from real-time energy calculations, gas tracking and proactive mitigation of hazardous conditions, such as overpressure and rupture detection, to ensure safe, secure and compliant gas services across its expansive network.

“Industry leaders like Enagás recognise the importance of digital technology in achieving more resilient and efficient utility operations,” said Stuart Harris, general manager, digital grid management at Emerson’s Aspen Technology business. “Our digital grid management solutions provide Enagás with full visibility across its mission-critical systems, in addition to the comprehensive insights needed to support the region’s natural gas supply well into the future."

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AI-Powered Environment enhances upstream lifecycle decision making.

Intuitive, cloud-native solution drives faster, more effective collaboration, interoperability and project insights.

AspenTech Subsurface Intelligence™ (ASI) is an open, cloud-native agentic environment now available from Emerson, that incorporates AI to transform the user experience and accelerate subsurface-related decision making while leveraging existing investments in legacy applications.

ASI’s AI-powered guidance capabilities and library of domain-specific agents operate with the industry-standard OSDU® Data Platform* to automate workflows and develop insights that improve the speed from data to results and decisions. ASI fulfills a critical industry need to work in an agile, multi-disciplinary manner, optimise production and improve access to information trapped throughout various parts of the organisation.

“Silos between disciplines, software and geographies are impacting the upstream industry’s ability to make fast, effective decisions about how to maximise returns for subsurface projects,” said Dr. Vikas Dhole, senior vice president of modeling and optimisation at Emerson’s Aspen Technology business. “ASI is transforming subsurface workflows by improving multi-disciplinary collaboration across the hydrocarbon extraction project lifecycle and accelerating investment decisions.

“Combined with decision support from an embedded AI advisor, ASI is enabling companies to more effectively navigate energy market volatility, overcome complex E&P challenges and empower a new generation of workers.”

ASI agents are strategically deployed as cloud-based applications with an intuitive user interface or with AI-powered guidance from Aspen Virtual Advisor. In this way, ASI enhances decision making across all skill levels, equipping the emerging subsurface workforce to confidently handle drilling, exploration and production challenges. Its open and scalable cloud-native environment fits into existing subsurface software ecosystems. ASI complements other products in Emerson’s AspenTech Subsurface Science & Engineering (SSE) portfolio and third-party technical applications, thereby allowing companies to reduce operating expenditures while bringing together individual disciplines and data to improve production time and leverage previous technology investments.

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Towards "Boundless Automation."

Software-centric architecture to democratise data and enable innovation.

Building on a deep legacy of industry-leading digital automation expertise through its Plantweb^™ digital ecosystem, global technology and software company Emerson has shared its vision of a new software-defined automation architecture designed to catalyse the future of modern manufacturing. 

 

This next-generation architecture will empower companies through `boundless automation’ to manage, connect and deliver operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) data seamlessly and easily across the enterprise. Moving data freely and securely across OT and IT domains – from the intelligent field to the edge and cloud – will enable operational and business performance optimisation across the enterprise. 

Emerson, drawing upon decades of automation leadership through its preeminent Plantweb digital ecosystem, shared this vision to accelerate manufacturing today at  Emerson Exchange Americas* convening nearly 3,000 industrial experts to discuss emerging ways to optimise business and sustainability performance through advanced automation. This vision follows Emerson’s latest expansion of Plantweb with the Aspen Tech industrial software portfolio. 

 

“The industrial sector is facing a pivotal moment, with the intersecting priorities of safety, productivity and sustainability forcing a crossroads between ‘the way things have always been done’ and the tech-powered vision of tomorrow,” said Mark Bulanda, executive president of Emerson’s Automation Solutions business. “As an automation leader with expanding software capabilities through our AspenTech addition, Emerson is well-positioned to help the industries we serve navigate a path to a digital future.” 

 

The automation architecture currently used across the world’s most essential industries was purpose-built with operational data isolated from hardware and software systems. This siloed approach presents a barrier to meaningful data use because separate layers of automation – including sensors and software, cloud-based applications and artificial intelligence – block data access from one layer to the next. 

 

Leveraging automation to its fullest potential requires secure OT data access to put data to work across layers to optimise process, reliability, safety and sustainability simultaneously. New technologies and applications combined with market needs – including `born digital’ companies, decentralised operating models and the move toward self-optimised plants – have created demand for a new automation paradigm where a unified software environment streams data across the enterprise effortlessly, when and where it’s needed. 

 

This software-defined, data-centric and app-enabled architecture Emerson outlined at its conference will more easily “democratise” critical data. The automation architecture will easily gather data from devices and modern edge-based technology control systems and securely move it to today’s cloud-based enterprise for analysis, trending and forecasting – enabling tight collaboration between information technology and OT. 

“Emerson has been at the forefront of industrial automation innovation breakthroughs for the past four decades, and our commitment continues,” said Peter Zornio, chief technology officer for Emerson’s Automation Solutions business. “The shift to a software-defined architecture across the cloud, edge and intelligent field will eliminate functional and architectural silos, creating a ‘boundless automation’ platform. Such a platform is required to truly enable all the benefits promised by digital transformation applications and programs.”  

* See "Forward Focus..."  - the theme of the Emerson User Group Conference commencing 24th October 2022 in Grapevine (TX USA).

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"See, decide, act and optimise!"

Industry-leading digital automation portfolio connects intelligent field to software-centric evolution of automation architecture

Leveraging decades of digital innovation and leadership across all automation categories, global technology and software company Emerson has announced the evolution of the Plantweb™ digital ecosystem to incorporate the AspenTech portfolio of asset optimisation software powered by industrial artificial intelligence, creating the most comprehensive digital transformation portfolio in the industry.

 

Emerson’s Plantweb digital ecosystem, optimised by AspenTech, enables industrial manufacturers across all industries to “See, Decide, Act and Optimise” their operations. Leveraging a robust suite of sensors, software and control technologies, Plantweb now enables companies to optimise the business and sustainability performance of their plants and enterprise through advanced asset and business optimisation software.

 

“With the vast amounts of data created by manufacturing, the world’s most essential industries have increasingly demanded robust automation that transcends boundaries to help empower safe, reliable operations across a facility or enterprise,” said Mark Bulanda, executive president of Emerson’s Automation Solutions business. “Our Plantweb digital ecosystem, combined with the asset optimisation leadership of AspenTech, gives organisations the ability to ‘see, decide, act and optimise’ every aspect of their operations to drive exceptional returns on automation investment in productivity, safety and sustainability.”

 

The new Plantweb digital ecosystem, now optimised with AspenTech industrial AI software, empowers companies with an unprecedented flexibility to generate, manage and use the rapidly growing body of data each plant operation generates. As every operator increasingly uses data and software to perform their jobs, Plantweb helps make data actionable by more personnel in the context of their role, regardless of location.

 

Plantweb powers world-class performance by enabling: sensing and visualization, predictive diagnostics and monitoring, precision control, modelling and AI-powered analytics. These technologies include:

• Sense & Measure: Providing the ability to SEE, sensing and measurement technologies create high-integrity data to drive all decisions. This portfolio helps customers eliminate blind spots in locations and applications previously out of reach, including modern edge computing that enables faster local response. Key capabilities include leak and corrosion detection, tank, safety and equipment monitoring, personnel awareness, process measurements, and liquid and gas analysis.
   
• Automation Systems & Software: Providing the ability to DECIDE, digital automation systems enable agility through intuitive analytics and improved visibility. Advanced software drives better decisions through on-demand access to expertise, while automated workflows empower personnel to focus on high-value activities rather than low-value tasks. Software includes distributed, batch and advanced control, SCADA and PLCs, safety systems, asset and alarm management, remote monitoring, AI, machine learning and digital twins.
   
• Act & Control: Providing the confidence to ACT, responsive, precision control helps maximise performance and optimise production to drive operational integrity and protect people, equipment and the environment. Technology capabilities include digital valve control, process isolation, pressure regulation, discrete, motion, fluid and drive control and air handling.
   
• Industrial Software: Providing the ability to OPTIMISE across the entire asset lifecycle, modular, AI-based software features performance engineering applications to optimise and create world-class facilities. Manufacturing and supply chain applications maximise operational performance, while asset performance management applications extract the greatest return on investment from equipment and facilities. Industrial software capabilities include capital estimation, facility modelling, economic analysis, reservoir modelling, planning and scheduling, process and dynamic simulation, process knowledge management, supply chain management, process and energy analytics, management execution, electricity grid management, operations and asset performance management and digital twins.

The industry has increasingly realised advanced automation is the greatest strategic lever available to boost operating performance, improve safety and achieve sustainability targets through emissions reduction and greater energy efficiency.

“Plantweb has remained a platform for continuous innovation in the industry since its introduction in 1997, including the world’s first integrated digital safety loop, machinery health monitoring and the pervasive deployment of wireless technologies,” said Peter Zornio, chief technology officer for Emerson. “Now Plantweb sets the software foundation for the future of ‘boundless automation,’ where the intelligent field, edge and cloud become a seamless architecture for world-class responsiveness and performance.”

•  See "Forward Focus..."  - the theme of the Emerson User Group Conference commencing 24th October 2022 in Grapevine (TX USA).

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Metals and mining software.

AspenTech, an Emerson majority-owned subsidiary, has entered into an agreement to acquire Micromine, an end-to-end mining software provider. This acquisition will build on AspenTech’s leading software portfolio, furthering its diversification strategy into the metals and mining market and facilitating the digital transformation and sustainability goals of the industry.

The transaction with AspenTech, which closed in May 2022, accelerates Emerson’s software strategy and demonstrates commitment to build a higher growth, more diversified and cohesive portfolio. This proposed acquisition of Micromine is an example of how Emerson and AspenTech will drive growth through continued investment and M&A.

Micromine, headquartered in Perth, Australia, offers solutions relevant to every step of the mining process from exploration, evaluation, design and planning through production and optimisation. Micromine’s solutions are used at over 2,000 sites across all major mining regions.

Following AspenTech’s completion of the proposed acquisition, Emerson will continue to be a 55% shareholder in AspenTech.

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Alliance to deliver digital technologies.

Emerson and AspenTech have teamed up to deliver asset optimisation software solutions along with global automation technologies and operational consulting services. Together, the two industry leaders will help customers optimise production and drive operational excellence.

AspenTech’s broad suite of asset optimisation software creates value across all phases of the asset lifecycle – design, operate and maintain – in capital-intensive and complex projects and operations, supporting Emerson’s Project Certainty and Operational Certainty initiatives. Emerson’s global footprint, automation engineering services and software, extensive large-scale project execution and consulting capabilities complement AspenTech’s technology footprint. Collectively, these capabilities can be deployed as solutions in both conventional and cloud-based architectures.

“Emerson and AspenTech are both highly focused on digital technologies and services that deliver measurable improvements and value to our customers’ bottom line,” says David N. Farr, chairman and CEO of Emerson. “Together, we are well positioned to help our customers navigate the best path in this era of digital transformation and achieve Top Quartile performance.” Top Quartile is defined as achieving operations and capital performance in the top 25 percent of peer companies.

The alliance will initially focus on three key areas: engineering software, including high-fidelity simulation to help validate project design and train operators before start-up; manufacturing and supply chain software, including advanced process control software designed for highly complex operations; and asset performance management software to improve plant reliability.

“Working with Emerson, we will help more organisations drive higher total shareholder returns with a relentless focus on operational excellence,” says Antonio Pietri, president and CEO of AspenTech. “We look forward to helping make the best companies even better by optimising the design, operation and maintenance lifecycle with software and insight to run assets faster, safer, longer and greener.”

Together, the two companies will provide holistic optimisation strategies that rely on real-time data, advanced analytics enabled by machine learning, and rich process knowledge to bring measurable business improvements in production, as well as in the areas of reliability, safety and energy management.

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