Tagsight for controls estimators
Every bid is a race against a drawing set that landed in your inbox 48 hours ago. Produce an I/O count too low and you absorb the margin loss for years. Produce one too high and you lose the bid altogether. The whole ritual depends on counting circles by hand under time pressure with no second pair of eyes.
Read one of your own drawings.
Drop a P&ID, instrument index, or schedule. Tagsight reads it to the tag and opens a workspace you keep when you sign in.
PDF · DWG · DXF · TIFF · PNG · XLSX
What you do today.
- Print the P&IDs, highlighter in hand, count tags page by page
- Categorize each tag as AI, AO, DI, DO from the second-letter code
- Apply card-sizing rules, marshalling-cabinet rules, and your house spare-capacity uplift
- Build the bid I/O number, hope you got it within 10 percent
What changes with Tagsight.
- Upload the bid drawing set, see an I/O count broken down by class within minutes
- Filter SIS-classified tags into a separate cabinet bucket per IEC 61511 hygiene
- Apply your house spare-capacity rule programmatically, not in your head
- Export the bid package as Excel with source-page traceability your reviewer can audit
Where it fits in your week.
RFP I/O count under time pressure
RFP closes Friday at 5pm. You receive 60 P&ID pages on Monday. Run the set through Tagsight Tuesday morning, spend the rest of the week on cabinet sizing, scope assumptions, and risk pricing instead of counting circles.
Apples-to-apples vendor comparison
Owner asks for vendor bids that all carry the same I/O baseline. Run the bid drawing set once, produce a normalized count, hand it to every vendor in the bid invitation. Removes the ambiguity that lets bidders game the count.
Bid review defensibility
Senior reviewer challenges your number during the review meeting. Pull up the extraction, show source-page references for any tag they question, defend the number from the data.
FAQ.
Is the I/O count from Tagsight accurate enough to bid against.
It is structured data from the drawing, not a guess. Quality depends on the drawing. Clean CAD-exported PDFs give cleaner extraction than scanned legacy drawings. Either way you review and adjust before locking the bid number. You do not commit to a black-box count.