Moving off a SmartPlant workflow into structured tag data.
Read PDFs and scans directly. Produce the I/O list, equipment list, and line list without a project database to maintain.
Two workflows, six decisions.
Where the SmartPlant workflow concentrates engineering effort, and where the Tagsight workflow concentrates it instead.
The typical transition runs in three phases. First, the team picks one or two active projects and processes them through Tagsight in parallel with the existing SmartPlant workflow. The extracted I/O list, equipment list, and line list are compared against the SmartPlant output for that project.
Second, once the parallel pass confirms the extraction matches the engineering team’s expectations, new projects start in Tagsight directly. The SmartPlant workflow continues for in-flight projects until they close out. There is no migration cliff; no project database to export, no schema to convert.
Third, legacy drawings that were never modeled run as inputs. The scanned drawings sitting in the EDMS produce the same documents as the CAD-exported PDFs.