Athion provides an engineering system of record for process manufacturing, converting P&IDs into a living, queryable digital asset. The platform enables design acceptance testing and bidirectional change propagation, allowing teams to stress-test designs before freeze and keep downstream systems aligned. It is built for industries like pharmaceuticals, chemicals, oil & gas, and food & beverage.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Process manufacturing plants rely on design data scattered across drawings, spreadsheets, and documents that only connect through people. This fragmentation makes it difficult to test design changes before implementation, leading to rework, unpredictable schedules, and problematic startups. The design itself often receives its first real test only at startup, when gaps are costly to fix.
Solution
Athion provides an engineering system of record that ingests P&IDs and transforms them into a single, living, queryable design. The platform extracts equipment, connections, and context from existing drawings, making the design testable before freeze through design acceptance testing. Users can stress-test changes, observe change propagation across equipment lists and specifications, and push updates bidirectionally to downstream systems. This approach aligns data, people, and systems, reducing rework and enabling smoother project startups.
Target Audience
Primary customers are process manufacturing companies in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, oil & gas, pulp & paper, food & beverage, and metals & mining, along with the automation engineers and systems integrators who design and maintain their plants.
Features
- P&ID ingestion that converts existing drawings into a queryable digital engineering asset
- Design acceptance testing to stress-test the design before freeze and catch gaps early
- Bidirectional change propagation that updates equipment lists, specs, and downstream systems automatically
- Vendor-agnostic architecture built to fit existing OT stacks without replacement
- OT-first design tailored for industrial reality, not retrofitted from IT
- AI-assisted analysis with a commitment to operational rigor