Aspen Technology, Inc., a provider of software and services to the process industries, has made generally available Version 9 of two applications, aspenONE Engineering and aspenONE Manufacturing and Supply Chain.
The advent of continuous data collection and analysis has the potential to change the face of the chemical industry, and will create the need for platforms allowing companies to analyse a material throughout its value chain, consultants at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said.
Import cargo volume at the nation's major retail container ports is expected to be mostly down through the summer but should see a significant uptick just before the winter holiday season, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.
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