Process engineering, unified.
PlexForge is an AI-native industrial engineering platform for chemical, petrochemical, refining, manufacturing and other process industries — rigorous process simulation, engineering calculations, AI and document understanding in one place.
Preheat the reactor feed to improve conversion.
Proposed: add heat exchanger E-101 upstream of R-101.
Industrial engineering is fragmented, slow and expensive.
Process simulation, thermodynamic calculations, equipment sizing, troubleshooting, documentation and optimisation usually live in separate proprietary software, spreadsheets and manual processes. That costs time and money, and it puts the work out of reach for smaller industrial organisations and engineering teams.
- Process simulation
- Thermodynamic calculations
- Equipment sizing
- Troubleshooting
- Engineering documents
- Optimisation
- Spreadsheets
- Manual processes
- Process flowsheets and calculations
- An AI copilot with engineering validation
- P&ID intelligence
- One environment for the whole team
One digital environment for the whole workflow
Construct flowsheets, run engineering calculations, evaluate operating scenarios and troubleshoot — without leaving the platform.
Process flowsheets
Construct process flowsheets in a digital environment built for engineers.
Thermodynamics and calculations
Perform rigorous thermodynamic and engineering calculations, including equipment sizing.
Operating scenarios
Evaluate operating scenarios and compare them side by side.
Convergence troubleshooting
Troubleshoot convergence problems with AI assistance.
Engineering documentation
Analyse engineering documents, including scanned plant drawings.
Optimisation experiments
Explore optimisation experiments proposed by the copilot and validated by the engines.
AI proposes. Real engines produce the results.
The copilot turns natural-language engineering requirements into proposed workflows, assists with troubleshooting, compares scenarios and proposes optimisation experiments. Every AI-generated change goes through structured engineering validation and needs your approval.
- Describe what you need in plain language
- Review each proposed change before it is applied
- Final engineering results are generated and validated by real process-simulation and calculation engines
P&ID intelligence
Computer vision, OCR and graph processing read scanned plant drawings and turn them into structured information — equipment, tags, connections and process assets.
- Equipment and tags recognised with computer vision and OCR
- Connections rebuilt as a graph of the plant
- Far less manual processing of engineering documents
Advanced HAZOP, built into the platform.
A hazard and operability (HAZOP) study is how process teams find what could go wrong before it does. PlexForge brings the study into the same platform as your flowsheets and P&IDs, so it works from the same design data.
- Systematic, node-by-node studies using the familiar guide-word method
- The copilot proposes deviations, causes, consequences and safeguards — your team approves every entry
- Consequences can be backed by the same simulation engines used for design
How a study runs in PlexForge
Pick a node
Select a section of the process from your flowsheet or P&ID.
Apply guide words
Work through deviations such as no flow or more pressure.
Review the proposals
The copilot drafts causes, consequences and safeguards for your team to review.
Approve and record
Nothing enters the worksheet until your team approves it.
Where PlexForge is heading
PlexForge is in prototype development. These are the outcomes we are building towards.
A functional AI-assisted process engineering platform
Validated simulation and engineering workflows
Intelligent P&ID extraction
Pilot-ready industrial software
Commercial model
The prototype lays the foundation for commercial deployment through B2B SaaS and enterprise licensing.
Get early access to PlexForge
PlexForge is in development. Tell us about your team and we'll be in touch as early access and pilots open — no spam, just launch news.
- Built for chemical, petrochemical, refining and manufacturing teams
- Designed to be accessible to smaller engineering teams
- Interested in a pilot? Let us know in the form