Case Study: Leading Pulp & Paper Manufacturer avoids major kiln fire with nine-day warning using Aspen Technology (Aspen Mtell)

Leading Pulp and Paper Manufacturer Detects and Avoids Major Fire with Aspen Mtell

Leading Pulp & Paper Manufacturer faced recurring product-quality and throughput interruptions at a wood-products processing plant that caused product losses. They engaged Aspen Technology and deployed Aspen Mtell to scan archived historian data and correlate it with asset-management failure records to find hidden failure signatures.

Aspen Technology used Aspen Mtell’s industrial machine learning and autonomous agents to monitor dozens of sensor streams and identify an overheating-kiln signature; a live agent issued a nine-day warning that allowed the plant to change operating conditions and avoid a catastrophic shutdown. Aspen Technology’s solution also detected other impending equipment failures weeks in advance, finding minuscule early signatures that manual thresholds had missed and preventing costly downtime.