Webinar

Intelligent P&IDs for Oil & Gas — Without the Full CAD Suite

A session for engineers authoring oil & gas P&IDs — ISA 5.1 and PIP compliant, inside Visio, at concept and front-end stage, with the equipment, valve, and line lists generated straight from the drawing.

The problem

At the front end of an oil & gas project, a facility concept, a separation or metering package, a pad or skid, the P&ID work is real, but the tooling doesn't fit. A full plant-design suite is built for detailed engineering, usually sits with a separate CAD group, and is hard to justify before the scope is even firm. Draw it dumb in Visio instead and you get a picture with no data behind it, plus equipment and valve lists you re-key by hand and reconcile every time the drawing changes. So, the most iterative stage of the project runs on the least-suited tools.

Meet VPID

Visio P&ID Process Designer is an intelligent P&ID authoring tool built on Microsoft Visio.

It gives the front end of your workflow what it's been missing: real, standards-compliant P&IDs the process engineer can build directly, no separate CAD group, no drafting queue and the lists that come straight off the drawing.

Where VPID fits — and where it doesn't. VPID is a front-end P&ID authoring tool. It's not a 3D plant modeler, it doesn't do isometrics or stress analysis, and it isn't a replacement for detailed-design CAD. That's deliberate — it owns the stage where the heavy tools don't fit: concept, FEED, facility studies, and packaged/skid scopes.

Thuesday, 9 September 2026

02:00 PM EST

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Who this is for

This session is for you if you’re:

  • A process, facilities, or instrumentation engineer authoring oil & gas P&IDs at concept and front-end stage
  • An in-house engineer who owns the process but hands drawings to a separate CAD group
  • A package or skid builder producing P&IDs for separation, metering, treatment, and modular units

Typically small teams — one to three engineers — who own the process and the drawing.

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, stress analysis, or multi-discipline database integration
Speaker

Ryan Roach
AVP Sales

Anagh Vaidya
Application Engineer

What you'll see

The problem, a product demo, and live Q&A.

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

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