Introduction to Aspen Unified Reconciliation and Accounting (AURA)
This course provides systematic training in Aspen Unified Reconciliation and Accounting (AURA) for performing typical daily tasks of Yield Accountants and analyzing plant performance. Detailed emphasis is placed on introducing and reviewing advanced features and functions in AURA, including model navigation, retrieve data from data historians, importing objects data/events from Excel, reconcile, basic & advanced Visualize to analyze results (tooltips, data inspector, Data Panel, Trends, Envelopes, Sankey, Reports, Work Area) and basic model maintenance. |
Audience:
This course is designed for Yield Accountants who will be performing daily material balance tasks and acts as an introduction for those who would be implementing & supporting Aspen Unified Reconciliation and Accounting. Participants will typically know a basic background of the yield accounting process at their respective plant and would like to have a detailed understanding of how AURA would be leveraged to simplify and improve their business process. • Yield Accountants/Analysts/Supervisors • Material Balance Engineers • AURA Implementors |
Training Details
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Course Id:
AURA101
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Duration:
3 day(s)
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CEUs Awarded:
2.1
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Level:
Introductory
Benefits
• Gain familiarity with key AURA features and develop understanding of important concepts. • Maximize the value received from using AURA through awareness and appropriate utilization of features taught in the training. • Learn the latest troubleshooting tips to increase productivity using the visualization Tools designed to help detect, analyze, and resolve potential operational problems that lead to reconciliation discrepancies. • Learn how to perform basic model maintenance to sustain product usage and keep model up to date. |
Approach
• Instruction on important introductory topics • Brief touchpoints on concepts that act as precursor to topics covered in advanced course • The hands-on problem-solving approach allows the student to gain an understanding of the most important Aspen Unified Reconciliation and Accounting interface and functions. • The class problems are designed to illustrate real world scheduling problems and how to interpret and troubleshoot solutions with advanced AURA tools. |
Pre-requisites
• This course is recommended for Yield Accountants with some knowledge of the Yield Accounting business process at their plant (Refineries, Olefins, Gas to Liquid etc.,). • Some prior experience in Material Balancing or a basic understanding of the plant operations is preferred. |
Subsequent Courses
AUS101 -- Introduction to Aspen Unified Scheduling AUP101 -- Introduction to Aspen Unified PIMS MES101 -- Aspen InfoPlus.21: Real Time Information Management Foundation |
Agenda
• AURA: Overview & Quick Demo o Aspen Unified, Product Optimization, Yield Accounting with AURA o AURA – Key terms, One-time Project Implementation vs Daily Material Balance o Quick Demo, Typical Architecture, Documentation • Unified Homepage, Model Navigation o Aspen Unified Home Page: Open Model, Copy Model, Import Model Snapshot, Folders, Pinning o Getting familiar with Navigation Panel, A-Bar, Floating Toolbar, Data Panel, Zoom Functions • Base Model, Analysis and Cases o What is Base Model? What are: Materials, Properties & UOMs, Objects, Object Templates, Strapping Tables, o What is Analysis? What are Cases? How to browse cases? How to Create new case? o How to Update Base Model for a Case? Relationship between Base Model & Case • Basic Visualization & Model Settings o Flowsheet: Annotations, Labels, Stubs, Tooltips, Data Inspector o Details Panel: Balance Tab (Flows, Units) & Case Data Tab (Sparklines) o Data Panel: Flows, Non-storage, Storage, Boundary and Trends. Common Table Options o Model Settings: General Settings, Display Settings • Data Input and Expressions o Import Objects Data from Excel. What is an Event? How to Create an Event? Import Events from Excel o Data Acquisition: How to configure and Retrieve Data from Data Historian o Data Publish: Publish Data to Data Historian, Configuration o Expression: Template level (Editable/non-editable), Object Level, Examples, Expression Errors, Overrides • Reconcile with Smart Solver o Material Balance Concepts: Measured & Unmeasured Flows/Tanks, Tank Groups o Data Reconciliation: Solver Inputs/Outputs & Calculations, Results, Status o Smart Solver Concepts: Reconciliation Strategies, Gross Error & Random Error Penalties, Objective Function Calculations o How to configure the Solver, Simultaneous Mass & Volume Balance o Redundancy, KPIs & Troubleshooting Daily balance, Single and Multi-case actions. • Advanced Visualization o Sankey, Envelopes, Reports, Work Areas o Model Maintenance |
Aspen Technology, Inc. awards Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for training classes conducted by our organization. One CEU is granted for every 10 hours of class participation.