Curtiss-Wright will invest $30 million to expand its Round Rock, Texas plant and raise capacity for pressure and temperature sensors used in commercial reactors and industrial applications. The nuclear revival runs into instrumentation supply long before it runs into new reactors.
HistorianSim is a Claude Code workflow: describe a chemical process in plain English and you get about 90 days of simulated plant historian time-series with injected faults, control loops that can mask them, and a private answer key. Nothing in the data comes from a real plant, so teams can practice RCA, test fault detection, and train agents without sharing live historian files. Different tool from Scott Duncan's troubleshooting-agent YouTube and PFD Claude skill already on the Feed.
For process, reliability and controls engineers: practicing RCA or training agents.
Found via Scott Duncan on LinkedIn
autocad-plant3d-mcp lets Claude Code, Claude Desktop or another MCP client build, check and renumber P&IDs in AutoCAD Plant 3D through its .NET API, so lines carry real connections and pass validation. It also runs read-only checks on the project database for duplicate tags, orphan objects and open line ends. A chemical engineering student built it from a two-semester plant design project.
For process design engineers and EPC tool builders: on AutoCAD Plant 3D.
smt-floor-mcp simulates a three-line SMT electronics floor with injected anomalies and keeps the answer key separate, so you can score whether an agent finds the real cause of a slowdown. The simulator and a read-only OPC UA server are done; the MCP server itself is still in progress.
For electronics manufacturing engineers: testing agents on line data.