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[MaGSmErTi]

Hi everyone,

I'm wondering how much manual data capture is still happening out in the process industry. In my region, spending countless hours essentially translating information from P&IDs into structured data is common. For example; we manually go through the drawing, identify instrument tags, types, details, etc., and add to instrument index. Similar for equipment and pipelines.

We do all this by hand from the 2D CAD drawings or printed PDFs, not from an intelligent database or linked model.

Do people elsewhere still do this manually? Or is it mostly automated now with intelligent P&ID softwares to automatically extract information and maintain connections to databases? How are you handling the challenge of maintaining data integrity across drawing revisions?

I'm curious what others are experiencing and would love to hear what's working for you.