Accelerating Manufacturing Scale-Up from Material Discovery Using Agentic Web Navigation and Retrieval-Augmented AI for Process Engineering Schematics Design

Sagar Srinivas Sakhinana, Akash Das, Shivam Gupta, Venkataramana Runkana

Keywords: Process Engineering Schematics Design, Agentic Web Navigation, Retrieval-Augmented AI

Abstract: Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs) and Process and Instrumentation Diagrams (PIDs) are critical tools for industrial process design, control, and safety. However, the generation of precise and regulation-compliant diagrams remains a significant challenge, particularly in scaling breakthroughs from material discovery to industrial production in an era of automation and digitalization. This paper introduces an autonomous agentic framework to address these challenges through a two-stage approach involving knowledge acquisition and generation. The framework integrates specialized sub-agents form retrieving and synthesizing multimodal data from publicly available online sources and constructs ontological knowledge graphs using a Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Graph RAG) paradigm. These capabilities enable the automation of diagram generation and open-domain question answering (ODQA) tasks with high contextual accuracy. Extensive empirical experiments demonstrate the framework’s ability to deliver regulation-compliant diagrams with minimal expert intervention, highlighting its practical utility for industrial applications.

Submission Number: 10