AspenTech previews AVA AI platform and new Aspen Mtell release ahead of OPTIMIZE 26
Emerson's AspenTech business outlined AI advisors, data fabric upgrades and new optimisation for crude scheduling and blending.
Emerson outlined on 6 May 2026 the technologies its AspenTech business would present at the OPTIMIZE 26 user conference, held in Houston from 11 to 14 May 2026.
The list includes AspenTech AVA, a newly introduced AI platform intended to help industrial companies extend AI use across the enterprise, along with new and enhanced AVA advisors in Aspen GDOT, Aspen DMC3 and Aspen Unified PIMS. A new release of Aspen Mtell, the company's asset performance management product, focuses on moving from asset health monitoring to AI-based failure prediction.
AspenTech also highlighted advances in AspenTech Inmation Data Fabric to unify operational technology data into a contextualised, AI-ready foundation, new advanced optimisation for crude scheduling and blending in Aspen Unified, and AspenTech Subsurface Intelligence, an open, cloud-native environment that uses AI and agentic capabilities to speed subsurface decisions.
For power utilities, the company described integration of AspenTech Cimphony Network Model Management with applications built on the AspenTech OSI monarch SCADA platform.
Sources
- News Brief: AspenTech OPTIMIZE 26 to Showcase Innovative Technologies Powering Performance and ResilienceEmerson · 6 May 2026 · accessed 23 October 2026