Case 04/Engineering Compliance/EPC / Manufacturing / Pharma

DrawEX — P&ID Compliance Scoring

Validates P&ID drawings against 35+ compliance checkpoints in under three minutes instead of four hours.

ClientEPC services leader with 20+ years in pharmaceutical plant design

The challenge

What was breaking

Each P&ID drawing required a manual review against 35+ compliance checkpoints — equipment labelling, line numbering, flow direction, control loops and instrument placement — costing engineers 4–5 hours per drawing and creating review backlogs across multi-disciplinary teams.

4–5 hours of expert effort per drawing
20–30% interpretation variance between reviewers
Review cycles slowing project delivery schedules

The solution

DrawEX

Built on GEN8, DrawEX combines computer vision, document understanding and semantic rules to parse drawings, score compliance and generate a review-ready report in roughly three minutes.

CV-based parsing of equipment, lines and annotations
Semantic rule engine for 35+ compliance parameters
Component-level pass / partial / fail scoring
Critical-issue identification and prioritisation
Branded, audit-ready report templates

Solution design

How it works

5 stages

01
Upload
P&ID drawings ingested as PDF or CAD via the DrawEX interface.
02
Parse
AI identifies equipment, instrumentation, process lines and annotations.
03
Evaluate
Extracted data is scored against 35+ predefined compliance parameters.
04
Score
Pass / Partial / Fail status with parameter-level notes and component references.
05
Report
Standardised, review-ready report delivered in ~3 minutes, 4 clicks.

01
Upload
P&ID drawings ingested as PDF or CAD via the DrawEX interface.
02
Parse
AI identifies equipment, instrumentation, process lines and annotations.
03
Evaluate
Extracted data is scored against 35+ predefined compliance parameters.
04
Score
Pass / Partial / Fail status with parameter-level notes and component references.
05
Report
Standardised, review-ready report delivered in ~3 minutes, 4 clicks.

Business impact

Before vs. after

Metric	Before	After	Improvement
Validation time per drawing	4–5 hours	<3 minutes	99% faster
Manual QA labour	100% manual	<5% oversight	95% automation
Interpretation variance	20–30% rework	<2% rework	90% reduction
Large project review	2–3 weeks	2–3 days	90% faster
Scalability	Headcount-limited	1,000+ drawings/day	Unlimited

Key outcomes

What changed

✓99% time reduction in drawing validation
✓Uniform compliance interpretation across evaluations
✓Team growth without proportional resource increase
✓Regulatory and GMP alignment with consistent, traceable reports
✓Easily extendable to new compliance frameworks

Capabilities

Inside the build

CV-based parsing of equipment, lines and annotations

Semantic rule engine for 35+ compliance parameters

Component-level pass / partial / fail scoring

Critical-issue identification and prioritisation

Branded, audit-ready report templates

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