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Egyptian Refining Company tests an AI agent that predicts failures

One outage costs the refinery $35 million, so the agent watches sensor data for early warning signs and hands engineers a ready maintenance case with past work orders and spare parts lead times.

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AutoCAD MCP for piping: an AI assistant draws P&IDs, tank details and plot plans in AutoCAD or Plant 3D

Built by a piping and pipe-supports engineer, it gives an agent 50 tools for layers, block tags, ISA instrument balloons and support registers that can be compared by tag across revisions. It is locked to one work folder by default, can keep the original drawing untouched, and logs every edit.

For piping designers and pipe-support engineers: have the agent draft, dimension and export the routine sheets, then check them like any other drafter's work.