AspenTech is creating hybrid technology models with AI and analytics says Ron Beck

Ron Beck, Senior Industry Marketing Director, AspenTech speaks to Arun Shankar, Editor GEC Media Group about digitalisation solutions for oil and gas, chemicals, and mining. They are meant for asset intensive industries and cover the design, operate, maintain, life cycles and value chain of refineries, oilfields, plants. The software from AspenTech is based on the fundamentals of first principles from physics and chemistry. Beck says that AI and analytics have been integrated over the last five years to create new hybrid technology models. These allow optimisation and future sustainability. Middle East organisations are investing in this technology to reduce carbon intensity and improve productivity.

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