Computer-aided industrial process design. The ASPEN project. Fourteenth and fifteenth quarterly progress report, 1 September 1979-29 February 1980
Not Available · 1980
ASPEN is operational and a production version has been made available for industrial test participants. Changes for improvements or for fixes to problems are being made regularly in response to user inputs. Some catalogued procedures called executives in CMS language at MIT have been implemented for users to allow convenient execution of ASPEN and to print out results. A preliminary User's Manual of about 1000 pages has been prepared. Training materials have been developed for an introductory user course. Three courses have been held and 92 users have attended these. The four principal areas of work during this period were in documentation, instruction, coding and testing. The remaining model abstracts were completed. A description of the input language for the economic evaluation system was completed. This description will ultimately be incorporated in the User's Manual along with supporting documentation. Several demonstration problems, were prepared on cost estimation. A Data Regression System has been completed.