Digitize a legacy cable schedule into a structured register.

Cable schedules outlive every other handover document on the project. Construction reads them for installation, commissioning reads them at terminations, and operations reads them when a fault happens at three in the morning.

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Workflow.

01
Bring the source schedule into the workspace
PDF, scanned PDF, or Excel. The Excel ingestion path goes through the workspace artifact endpoint with auto column mapping for cable tag, from, to, core size, length, and routing. PDFs run through standard extraction with page-by-page progress.
02
Reconcile against the instrument index
Each from-to reference checks against the instrument and equipment registers in the same workspace. Cables pointing at instruments that do not exist on any P&ID surface as flagged rows. Instruments without a cable surface on the inverse side.
03
Export the structured register
Excel workbook with the canonical column set, CSV for downstream tools, JSON for asset-management integrations. Incomplete cables are flagged on the workbook so engineering closes them out before procurement releases the cable take-off.

What you get.

Structured cable register with from-to, core, size, length, routing, and fire-rating fields
Reconciliation report against the workspace instrument and equipment indices
Procurement-ready cable take-off rolled up by cable type and size
Marshalling-cabinet load summary by signal class for cabinet sizing

FAQ.

01Our cable schedule is a 30-column Excel with vendor-specific headings. Will the column mapping handle that.
Yes. The workspace ingestion endpoint reads the header row, fuzzy-matches against the canonical column set, and ingests unmapped columns as preserved free-form fields. The original spreadsheet stays available. The structured register is what downstream tools consume.
02What about cables with no instrument tag because the schedule is power or comms.
Power and comms cables are first-class rows in the cable register. They keep their cable tag and from-to references. The instrument-tag column stays empty and the cable-type column flags the path. Only instrument cables run through the instrument-index reconciliation step.

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Workflow.

Bring the source schedule into the workspace

PDF, scanned PDF, or Excel. The Excel ingestion path goes through the workspace artifact endpoint with auto column mapping for cable tag, from, to, core size, length, and routing. PDFs run through standard extraction with page-by-page progress.

Reconcile against the instrument index

Each from-to reference checks against the instrument and equipment registers in the same workspace. Cables pointing at instruments that do not exist on any P&ID surface as flagged rows. Instruments without a cable surface on the inverse side.

Export the structured register

Excel workbook with the canonical column set, CSV for downstream tools, JSON for asset-management integrations. Incomplete cables are flagged on the workbook so engineering closes them out before procurement releases the cable take-off.

FAQ.

01Our cable schedule is a 30-column Excel with vendor-specific headings. Will the column mapping handle that.

Yes. The workspace ingestion endpoint reads the header row, fuzzy-matches against the canonical column set, and ingests unmapped columns as preserved free-form fields. The original spreadsheet stays available. The structured register is what downstream tools consume.

02What about cables with no instrument tag because the schedule is power or comms.

Power and comms cables are first-class rows in the cable register. They keep their cable tag and from-to references. The instrument-tag column stays empty and the cable-type column flags the path. Only instrument cables run through the instrument-index reconciliation step.