The physical components and the relationships the drawing needs to represent.
System note · industrial systems
Brewery Control Systems
How the work connects
From physical equipment to a readable system.
Piping and instrumentation diagrams in AutoCAD; support for CCTV–PLC monitoring.
A representation engineers and operators can inspect alongside the installation.
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My part in the work
I designed P&ID drawings in AutoCAD and supported CCTV–PLC monitoring for an automated brewery environment. A P&ID is a piping and instrumentation diagram; a PLC is a programmable logic controller.
The drawings brought pipes, valves, sensors, and control relationships into a representation operators and engineers could work from.
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What carried into my AI work
Looking back at that work, I see a connection to the questions I now ask about AI: where does a signal come from, what transforms it, and which action depends on it? In the brewery work, the diagram made relationships between physical equipment and control components explicit. It gave people something to inspect together.
With agents, I want a similarly inspectable account of observations, decisions, and actions. The systems are different, but the need to trace a problem across components is familiar. A clear diagram helps with that; the equipment and software still have to be checked in operation.
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Artifact availability
The operating drawings and client-sensitive materials are private. This is a case note about my role and what I learned, not a public design package or an independent certification of the installation.
Source material · availability checked 11 September 2026
A case note, with private operating artifacts
Client operating drawings are not published here. The schematic explains my role without reproducing the installation or implying certification.