Intelligent P&IDs for Food & Beverage – Without the CAD Department

The problem

In food & beverage, the process never sits still — a new product run, a reformulation, a different CIP circuit, and the P&ID has to change with it. If that drawing is dumb shapes in Visio, every change means redrawing by hand and re-counting equipment and valves into a spreadsheet, until the documentation drifts out of sync with what's actually installed. A full CAD suite is overkill for front-end work and usually sits with a separate team. So the engineer who owns the line owns a drawing that can't keep up.

Meet Visio P&ID Process Designer

VPID turns Microsoft Visio into a smart P&ID tool. Instead of drawing lines and symbols, your engineers place intelligent, data-bearing shapes — ISA 5.1-compliant as you go — that carry their own tags, specifications, and connections. The result is a drawing that behaves like a database: it generates its own valve list, instrument list, and equipment list and it's reusable on the next project instead of redrawn from scratch.

And because it's built on Visio, there's no new CAD platform to learn. If your team can use Visio, they can build an intelligent P&ID with no drafting background required.

Thursday, 3 September 2026

02:00 PM EST

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Who this is for

This session is for you if you’re:

• A process or application engineer authoring food or beverage P&IDs at concept and front-end stage
• An in-house engineer who owns the process but hands drawings to a separate CAD team
• A skid or package builder producing P&IDs for CIP, process, and modular units

This probably isn't for you if you're:

• Doing detailed or construction-grade design on a full plant-design suite
• A large EPC standardized on traditional CAD P&ID tools
• Looking for 3D modeling, isometrics, or multi-discipline database integration

The demo walks through a generic process — the workflow and the reports are identical whatever you're drawing.

Speaker

Ryan Roach
AVP Sales

Anagh Vaidya
Application Consultant