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Aspen Technology Joins FIATECH Industry Consortium.


AspenTech Endorses FIATECH Efforts to Promote Vendor-Neutral Information Exchange in Process Engineering Design and Operations

BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Aspen Technology Aspen Technology (NASDAQ: AZPN) provides software and professional services to the manufacturing and process industries which allows companies to model, manage, and control their operations.

AspenTech was founded in 1981 by MIT professor Dr.
, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
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: AZPN), a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, today announced that it has joined the FIATECH industry consortium to promote industry standards for process engineering design and operations.

FIATECH is the only non-profit consortium focused on fast-track development and deployment of technologies designed to substantially improve how capital projects and facilities are designed, engineered, built and maintained. By joining the consortium, AspenTech will play an active role in supporting FIATECH and its efforts to create a single, vendor-neutral data exchange standard using the existing ISO (1) See ISO speed.

(2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI.
 15926 framework.

If process industry vendors use neutral data exchange standards, process industry owner-operators, engineering and construction firms and other companies benefit from increased interchange of data at a lower cost. This significantly reduces plant capital costs and associated design/construct timescales, while increasing the value of information within the operational phases of the plant lifecycle.

A neutral standard such as ISO 15926 provides open access to the data stored in process engineering solutions such as AspenTech's aspenONE Process Engineering application suite. aspenONE is a highly integrated toolset for Conceptual and Basic Engineering and Engineering support to Plant Operations. It includes Aspen aspen, in botany
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 Zyqad, in whose repository all process equipment and cost data, plus associated deliverables created during the Basic Engineering phase of a project are stored. These data may be exchanged with the detailed design and construction information stored in systems such as Intergraph's SmartPlant Suite.

"AspenTech applauds FIATECH's leadership role in converging con·verge  
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v.intr.
1.
a. To tend toward or approach an intersecting point: lines that converge.

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 the many parallel activities that are being developed to create standards for data exchange for the process industry," said Charles Rieb, AspenTech vice president of product management. "AspenTech fully supports standards and industry initiatives that can be practically implemented to deliver customer value. FIATECH's efforts with ISO 15926 are achieving practical results and are supported by global, industry-leading companies."

"We are pleased to welcome AspenTech into the FIATECH consortium," said Dr. Richard Jackson Richard Jackson may refer to the following people:
  • Richard Jackson (colonial agent) (d. 1787), British lawyer and politician
  • Richard Jackson (footballer) (born 1980), English footballer
  • Richard Jackson, Jr. (1764-1838), a US Congressman from Rhode Island
, director of FIATECH. "AspenTech's membership extends the footprint of FIATECH further into the conceptual and basic design arenas as well into the areas of process operations, planning and optimization optimization

Field of applied mathematics whose principles and methods are used to solve quantitative problems in disciplines including physics, biology, engineering, and economics.
. This is of great value to the process plant design and operations community and supports FIATECH's mission to improve the entire information and technology lifecycle Most new technologies follow a similar technology lifecycle describing the technological maturity of a product. This is not similar to a product life cycle, but applies to an entire technology, or a generation of a technology. ."

About AspenTech

AspenTech is a leading provider of award-winning process optimization Process optimization is the practice of making changes or adjustments to a process, to get results.

Optimization is the use of specific techniques to determine the most cost effective and efficient solution to a problem or design for a process.
 software and services. AspenTech's integrated aspenONE solutions enable manufacturers to reduce costs, increase capacity, and optimize operational performance end-to-end throughout the engineering, plant operations, and supply chain management processes, resulting in millions of dollars in cost savings. For more information, visit www.aspentech.com.

About FIATECH

FIATECH (www.fiatech.org) is an industry consortium that provides global leadership in identifying and accelerating the development, demonstration and deployment of fully integrated and automated au·to·mate  
v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates

v.tr.
1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory.

2.
 technologies to deliver the highest business value throughout the life cycle of all types of capital projects.

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