The post argues that the same "what if" models once limited to companies like Boeing are opening up so a small shop can stress a design, and a student can explore a turbopump, before metal is cut.
Firdauzi describes a stack that traces why gas is flared, forecasts monthly volumes and reads flame imagery, aimed at upstream operations that still treat flaring as a monthly surprise.
Scott Duncan builds an assistant on real data from a coal-fired boiler. Through one MCP server, it connects Claude to a historian, the DCS alarm logs, an asset knowledge graph and the plant documentation.
For operations and reliability engineers: a step-by-step pattern for an agent that reads your own historian and alarms before it answers.
An open source plugin that turns text or images into STEP, STL, GLB and 3MF files from inside a coding agent.