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Turning P&ID drawings into priced tender line-items in under a minute
Before
Every time the firm quoted a piping or process job, a senior engineer sat down with a piping drawing and worked through it by eye — counting every valve, every instrument, every sample point, every length of pipe — and typed each one into a spreadsheet with a price next to it. One mid-sized tender could eat a full day of the most expensive person in the office. Miss an item, lose margin. Double-count one, lose the job.
What we built
A single web page the engineer uses at tender time. They drop in the drawing as a PDF and, in under a minute, get back a clean table: every tagged item on the drawing, a plain-English description, which pipe run it sits on, and a price pulled from the firm's rate sheet. The engineer's job changes from typing out the list to reviewing one, ticking it off, and exporting it to a spreadsheet for the quote pack.
The result
Quoting stops being a day-long data-entry job and becomes a review job. The senior engineer gets most of a day back per tender, the firm can respond to more opportunities without adding headcount, and there's a clean audit trail of exactly what was counted on the drawing and what it was priced at.
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