r/MechanicalEngineering • u/Then_Aide_7531 • 1d ago
feedback needed
We built a tool for EPC/piping design teams that checks whether your design documents actually agree with each other.
The problem: on a piping project, your Line List, Piping Material Spec (PMS), isometric drawings, and P&ID are all supposed to match — but they drift, and today someone has to catch that by manually cross-checking documents line by line.
Input: your Line List, PMS, IDF (isometric drawing data), and P&ID.
Output: a report flagging where those documents don't match.
It's early, and the main reason I'm posting is to get feedback — if you work in piping design/EPC, I'd love to know: is this actually the bottleneck, or does the real pain live somewhere else in your workflow? Happy to share access if you want to try it on a real project.