Case Study: Cabot Streamlines Scheduling and Improves Visibility with Aspen Technology's Aspen Plant Scheduler

Cabot Streamlines and Standardizes Scheduling, Greatly Improving Visibility

Cabot Corporation, a specialty chemicals manufacturer, faced a challenge in streamlining scheduling and improving information visibility at its Carbon Black plants worldwide. Using outdated, plant-specific tools like Excel and Access, their schedulers spent excessive time gathering data instead of making strategic decisions. To close this gap between planning and execution, they partnered with vendor Aspen Technology to implement Aspen Plant Scheduler.

The solution from AspenTech replaced the disparate tools with a standardized scheduling model for a global rollout. This implementation drastically reduced the time schedulers spent on data gathering by over 80% and increased schedule completeness from 50% to over 90%. The use of Aspen Plant Scheduler also extended the scheduling horizon by two weeks and, through integration, helped reduce working capital and eliminate inventory buffers.

Cabot Microelectronics

Michael Straley

Cabot