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A chemical plant's autonomous maintenance pilot made 340 work orders in month one, and the team could act on 40

Nobody had told the system which assets were critical, on standby or already down for a planned shutdown, so it flagged everything with equal confidence. Pratik Dungarwal's point: the path runs through a clean asset hierarchy, criticality ranking and failure mode libraries first.

LinkedIn · Pratik Dungarwal · Oct 6, 2026

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"Describe a process in plain English. Press Build.": a Claude agent that builds and solves a process flowsheet

In AI Process Simulator the agent plans the components, fluid package and equipment, you review the specs and assumptions, and the simulator's own solver computes every result. It cannot delete equipment or rewire connections yet, and five to ten unit flowsheets cost about $0.05 to $0.12 in API usage in his testing.

LinkedIn · Rueben MacIntyre · Oct 6, 2026