An Agentic Approach to Automatic Creation of P&ID Diagrams from Natural Language Descriptions
This addresses labor-intensive and error-prone manual diagram creation in engineering industries, though it appears incremental as an application of existing AI methods to an underexplored domain.
The paper tackles the problem of automating Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) creation from natural language descriptions, introducing a multi-step agentic workflow that shows improved results over vanilla zero-shot and few-shot approaches.
The Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) are foundational to the design, construction, and operation of workflows in the engineering and process industries. However, their manual creation is often labor-intensive, error-prone, and lacks robust mechanisms for error detection and correction. While recent advancements in Generative AI, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs), have demonstrated significant potential across various domains, their application in automating generation of engineering workflows remains underexplored. In this work, we introduce a novel copilot for automating the generation of P&IDs from natural language descriptions. Leveraging a multi-step agentic workflow, our copilot provides a structured and iterative approach to diagram creation directly from Natural Language prompts. We demonstrate the feasibility of the generation process by evaluating the soundness and completeness of the workflow, and show improved results compared to vanilla zero-shot and few-shot generation approaches.