A P&ID is a document of record. Regulations require it to reflect as-is plant conditions – every vessel, every design condition, every nozzle placement. What it can't tell you is whether that equipment still holds.
That question arrives on a schedule. A unit built decades ago comes up for inspection. A feedstock change shifts operating pressure on three reactors, and every affected vessel needs a fresh look before the change is approved. The conditions are documented in the P&ID. The proof lives in mechanical analysis, in a different tool. It gets rebuilt by hand, against a deadline, from data that already exists. Transpose one pressure value incorrectly and it can cost days of rework, often surfacing late, when both documents are nearly stamped.
So how do you prove it holds without entering it all twice? Reuse what's already there. That works because Octave solutions are data-centric. The P&ID isn't just a drawing of a process, it's a data model of one. A drawing gives you geometry. A data model gives you conditions you can carry into analysis. The conditions captured in Octave Facets P&ID (formerly Smart P&ID) can be reused inside Octave Aspect Pressure Vessel (formerly PV Elite) rather than re-entered and become a code-compliant calculation against ASME VIII, EN 13445 and more. Octave Technical Product Managers David Kaiser and Hunter Lavish will walk the full path, from process definition to a result you can defend.
For process and mechanical engineers running aging assets under tighter scrutiny, this is the workflow behind recertification and management of change you can defend at inspection.
Here's what you'll learn:
- Where the handoff between process and mechanical work breaks down, and what it costs in rework and review-cycle delay
- How data captured in Facets P&ID is reused in Aspect Pressure Vessel rather than re-entered by hand
- What a defensible technical basis looks like when an inspector asks how a vessel was recertified, using recertification and management of change as worked examples
Speakers
Jay Schwartz
Senior Principle Product Manager, Design & Engineering
Octave
Jay is a seasoned business and technology executive with more than three decades of leadership experience across engineering, product management, sales and strategic accounts and has built a distinguished career driving growth, innovation, customer success and organizational transformation within the industrial technology sector.
David Kaiser
Senior Manager, Technical Product Management
Octave
David has nearly 25 years of experience in engineering software, spanning support, pre-sales, services and product management. He started his career as a junior engineer in the EPC world. That perspective has led him to Octave Facets solutions, where he has spent the last two years leading innovation in schematics for the engineers who design and document plant data.
Hunter Lavish
Technical Product Manager
Octave
Hunter brings over 8 years of systems engineering experience supporting NASA's mission-critical programs, including the International Space Station and Artemis I and II, to the product owner role for Aspect Structure and Aspect Pressure Vessel. His industrial and systems engineering background spans both sides of the equation: building robust products and optimizing the user experience.