AspenTech FEED Handover
to Detailed Engineering, in 48 Hours

AspenTech (Bedford MA, ~$1.14B/yr revenue, owned by Emerson Electric) is the global leader in process simulation and FEED engineering software: HYSYS for process simulation, Aspen Basic Engineering for FEED data management, Aspen Capital Cost Estimator (CCE) for FEED-grade cost estimating. FEED is the front-end engineering design phase that establishes plant scope, equipment list, process datasheets, control philosophy, and capital cost. FEED handover to detailed engineering is one of the most error-prone transitions in any process plant project: data lives in Aspen-format PDFs, equipment lists are typed manually into detailed engineering tools, process datasheets get re-keyed into instrument index templates. Pathnovo automates this transition.

Via document extraction. AspenTech outputs FEED deliverables in PDF + Excel + native formats. Pathnovo reads these documents (process datasheets, equipment lists, hydraulic calculations, CCE summaries), extracts structured data, and delivers it in detailed-engineering-ready formats: instrument datasheet templates, equipment master records, line list rows, BOM entries. AspenTech licensing and workflow are unchanged; Pathnovo is the downstream extraction layer.

No. AspenTech provides FEED simulation, design, and cost estimation. Pathnovo is downstream of AspenTech: it extracts FEED-output data into detailed engineering deliverables. They are complementary, with no functional overlap. AspenTech customers running FEED-to-detailed-engineering transitions add Pathnovo to compress the handover phase from 6-8 weeks of manual transcription to 48 hours of structured extraction.

Aspen HYSYS process simulation outputs (process datasheets, stream tables, control valve sizing). Aspen Basic Engineering outputs (equipment list, line list summaries, hydraulic calculations, control philosophy). Aspen Capital Cost Estimator (CCE) outputs (material take-off summaries, equipment cost ledgers). Aspen Plus and Aspen Properties outputs for chemistry-heavy FEED. Plus PDF / Excel exports from any Aspen tool.

Three buyer archetypes. (1) Indian or Gulf detailed-engineering EPC contractors receiving FEED handover from FEED contractors (Engineers India Limited, Toyo Engineering, Worley, Fluor, Bechtel, Aker Solutions); buyer is the EPC's Project Director or Lead Process Engineer. (2) Owner-operators with Aspen-using FEED contractors and SmartPlant / AVEVA / SAP detailed engineering platforms; buyer is the Engineering Manager. (3) Multi-EPC portfolio operators standardising FEED handover across multiple FEED contractors; buyer is the Corporate Engineering Standards lead.

Manual FEED handover typically runs 4-8 weeks of Process Engineer + I&C Engineer time transcribing Aspen outputs into detailed engineering deliverable templates. Per-record manual entry takes 15-30 minutes; multiplied across thousands of equipment / line / instrument records, the cost is staggering and error rates are 5-15%. Pathnovo extracts in 48 hours at 99.5% contractual accuracy. ROI is measured in days.

Credit-based, with the full platform included on every paid tier (Starter, Professional, Scale, Enterprise). Narrow-scope FEED handovers (50-equipment) fit comfortably inside Starter or Professional; full FEED handover on a $1B+ capex project sits on Scale or Enterprise. Indian PSU rate-card compatibility available. AspenTech licensing is unchanged. Free 14-day trial with 100 credits to validate one FEED deliverable before commercial commitment. See our pricing page for full plan details.

Yes. Owner-operators with decades of Aspen-output FEED archives from acquired plants, brownfield baselines, or expired capacity-expansion designs benefit from retroactive digitisation. Aspen FEED PDFs from any era extract into structured detailed engineering format, populating modern asset registers, AVEVA AIM, Hexagon SmartPlant Foundation, or SAP PM with FEED-grade design intent data that operations teams routinely need but cannot retrieve from PDF archives.