Every Draweon agent owns a section of the line, a declared tool set, the signals it watches and the setpoints it is allowed to move. Five of them ship as named products. The orchestrator plans, arbitrates and routes approvals; none of them acts outside the policy engine.
Illustrative scenario: EX-3 · 2.5 mm² class 2 PVC building wire, changeover, no spark faults
Each agent owns a section of the line, a bounded tool set and a metric the plant already measures. They negotiate for shared actuators through the orchestrator, never directly. Five of them ship as named products.
Rod breakdown, wire drawing, annealing
Perceives rod, wire, tension, die force, temperature and annealer conductivity in real time, predicts break risk and die wear before they happen, and closes the loop on die and capstan sequencing, tension, line speed and annealing setpoints to hold diameter and conductivity.
Stranding, cabling, lay and geometry
Senses payoff tension, take-up, rotational speed and geometry, predicts lay and roundness drift and birdcaging before they form, and closes the loop on strander and take-up speeds and tensions to hold target lay length and geometry.
Insulation and jacket extrusion
Fuses gauge, laser and wall-scan signals with melt and cooling telemetry, predicts eccentricity and wall drift before it lands on the reel, and closes the loop on screw speed, temperature zones, line speed and cooling to hold concentric wall and dielectric quality.
Fused inspection and defect prediction
Fuses vision, laser, eddy-current and spark-test signals into one real-time model of cable health. Detects and predicts diameter drift, lumps and neckdowns, insulation faults, sparks and pinholes, localises them to reel and length, and routes bounded corrections upstream.
Conductor, insulation and dimensional quality
Holds conductor, insulation and dimensional quality against the construction spec across the whole line, reconciling what the control agents want with what the spec allows.
Yield, scrap, length give-away, energy, line balancing
Prices every candidate move in scrap, give-away, kilowatt-hours and minutes, sequences changeovers and reel changes, and balances line speed against downstream capacity.
Spool, reel, payoff and take-up handling
Drives spool, reel and payoff and take-up handling so the line never waits on a reel change, with motion planned and checked in simulation before it runs near moving conductor.
Right-first-time, non-conformance, genealogy, traceability
Builds the reel and length genealogy record, gates release against the construction spec and the standards the cable is qualified to, and assembles evidence packets for customer and regulatory review.
Specs, standards, procedures, operator Q&A
Answers process and standards questions from draw schedules, construction and insulation specs, cable standards and quality procedures, with every answer cited to its source and scoped to the tenant.
As-run whole-line simulation and recipe optimisation
Simulates rod breakdown, drawing, annealing, stranding, extrusion, cooling and reel handling with GPU physics, compares as-run against as-designed, and auto-optimises draw schedule, lay and extrusion recipes so the line hits target quality, dimension and takt before the first metre runs.
Planning, arbitration, human approval
Plans the run, arbitrates between agents competing for the same actuator, enforces the autonomy level and routes anything above the risk threshold to a named approver.
No agent moves a setpoint it has not declared. The metric column is what a pilot on that agent would measure against the plant's baseline.
Perceives rod, wire, tension, die force, temperature and annealer conductivity in real time, predicts break risk and die wear before they happen, and closes the loop on die and capstan sequencing, tension, line speed and annealing setpoints to hold diameter and conductivity.
Shipped as Drawix.
| Watches | Draw tension, die force, lubricant and die temperature, annealer current and conductivity |
|---|---|
| Moves | Capstan tension, die and capstan sequencing, line speed, annealing current |
| Metric | First metric on a pilot line: break or energy reduction |
Senses payoff tension, take-up, rotational speed and geometry, predicts lay and roundness drift and birdcaging before they form, and closes the loop on strander and take-up speeds and tensions to hold target lay length and geometry.
Shipped as Cablyn.
| Watches | Payoff tension per spool, take-up speed, rotational speed, lay length, roundness |
|---|---|
| Moves | Strander and take-up speeds, payoff and take-up tension, lay length |
| Metric | First metric: out-of-round or lay-consistency scrap reduction |
Fuses gauge, laser and wall-scan signals with melt and cooling telemetry, predicts eccentricity and wall drift before it lands on the reel, and closes the loop on screw speed, temperature zones, line speed and cooling to hold concentric wall and dielectric quality.
Shipped as Extrio.
| Watches | Wall thickness, concentricity, melt pressure and temperature, cooling trough, material lot and moisture |
|---|---|
| Moves | Screw speed, zone temperatures, line speed, vacuum and cooling |
| Metric | First metric: polymer give-away or eccentricity reduction |
Fuses vision, laser, eddy-current and spark-test signals into one real-time model of cable health. Detects and predicts diameter drift, lumps and neckdowns, insulation faults, sparks and pinholes, localises them to reel and length, and routes bounded corrections upstream.
Shipped as Eddix.
| Watches | Camera frames, laser diameter and eccentricity, eddy-current events, spark-test events |
|---|---|
| Moves | Nothing directly: it recommends bounded corrections to the control agents and can quarantine a reel or raise sampling |
| Metric | First metric: downgrade or field-escape reduction |
Holds conductor, insulation and dimensional quality against the construction spec across the whole line, reconciling what the control agents want with what the spec allows.
Part of the platform, included in the Plant tier.
| Watches | Diameter, wall, concentricity, conductivity, lay against spec limits |
|---|---|
| Moves | Spec envelopes handed to the control agents, hold and release decisions |
| Metric | Measured as first-pass quality against the gauge and engineer baseline |
Prices every candidate move in scrap, give-away, kilowatt-hours and minutes, sequences changeovers and reel changes, and balances line speed against downstream capacity.
Part of the platform, included in the Plant tier.
| Watches | Scrap and downgrade, length give-away, energy per reel, order queue, takt |
|---|---|
| Moves | Changeover sequence, reel-change timing, line-speed targets handed to control agents |
| Metric | Measured as scrap, give-away and energy per reel against baseline |
Drives spool, reel and payoff and take-up handling so the line never waits on a reel change, with motion planned and checked in simulation before it runs near moving conductor.
Part of the platform, included in the Plant tier.
| Watches | Reel fill, take-up state, spool inventory, safety zones |
|---|---|
| Moves | Reel changes, spool loading, payoff alignment |
| Metric | Measured as reel-change time and manual handling hours removed |
Builds the reel and length genealogy record, gates release against the construction spec and the standards the cable is qualified to, and assembles evidence packets for customer and regulatory review.
Part of the platform, included in the Plant tier.
| Watches | Every step, prediction, approval and inspection event on the reel |
|---|---|
| Moves | Release, hold and non-conformance decisions |
| Metric | Measured as release records complete and NCR cycle time |
Answers process and standards questions from draw schedules, construction and insulation specs, cable standards and quality procedures, with every answer cited to its source and scoped to the tenant.
Part of the platform, included in the Plant tier.
| Watches | Construction specs, draw schedules, UL, IEC, IPC and USCAR documents, corrective-action history |
|---|---|
| Moves | Nothing. It informs operators and the other agents and cites what it used |
| Metric | Measured as citation coverage on every answer |
Simulates rod breakdown, drawing, annealing, stranding, extrusion, cooling and reel handling with GPU physics, compares as-run against as-designed, and auto-optimises draw schedule, lay and extrusion recipes so the line hits target quality, dimension and takt before the first metre runs.
Shipped as Simweon.
As-run whole-line simulation and recipe optimisation.
Plans the run, arbitrates between agents competing for the same actuator, enforces the autonomy level and routes anything above the risk threshold to a named approver.
Part of the platform, included in the Plant tier.
Planning, arbitration, human approval.
Every Draweon run is an ordered, inspectable sequence. This is run_3d7a1e on EX-3 · 2.5 mm² class 2 PVC building wire. Scenario completes in 10 steps with one approval gate. Wall settles at 0.80 mm nominal, minimum 0.66 mm, concentricity 0.93, no spark faults, reel R-30417 released with full genealogy.
Plant Orchestrator · Pulled the construction spec for 2.5 mm² class 2 PVC building wire from MES: 7 × 0.67 mm conductor, 0.80 mm nominal wall, 0.62 mm minimum spot wall, 6 kV spark test, 48 km order. Locked the target envelope.
Line Twin · Simulated 36 candidate recipes on the as-run line twin for draw schedule, lay length and extrusion setpoints, ranked on wall variance, concentricity, predicted spark risk and polymer give-away.
Draw-and-Anneal · Capstan tension on RB1 stepped down 6% as the die-wear estimate crossed its threshold. Diameter held at 0.670 mm ± 0.004 mm and the break-risk score fell from 0.31 to 0.09.
Draw-and-Anneal · Annealer current trimmed against the live conductivity reading to hold the softness target without over-anneal through the speed change.
Strand-and-Cable · Lay length set to 28 mm on bunching line ST2 with payoff tension balanced across 7 spools. Roundness index held above 0.97 into the extrusion payoff.
Insulate-and-Jacket · Screw speed and zone 3 temperature re-cut against melt pressure and material-lot moisture. Wall settled at 0.80 mm nominal, minimum 0.66 mm, concentricity 0.93.
Defect-and-Inspect · 6 cameras, the laser gauge, the eddy-current head and the spark tester fused at the edge. One neckdown precursor at 12,480 m flagged and cleared by a screw-speed trim before it reached the reel.
Plant Orchestrator · Line-speed ramp 1,100 to 1,250 m/min exceeded the site autonomy threshold. Held for the shift process engineer and approved at 06:41:52.
Robot-and-Handling · Reel change on take-up TU3 planned and executed by the handling robot. Payoff aligned and tension re-established inside the changeover window.
Quality-and-Conformance · Reel R-30417 released: genealogy written (conductor lot, draw and anneal record, lay, wall and concentricity trace, defect map, approvals) and checked against the construction spec.
Two agents will want the same actuator. The orchestrator arbitrates on the run goal, not on who asked first, and the handoff is logged like any other step.
Yield-and-Takt wants to trim screw speed to reduce polymer give-away on the thick side of the wall.
Defect-and-Inspect wants to raise screw speed to clear a neckdown precursor at 12,480 m.
Neckdown risk 0.58 outranks 0.3% give-away under the run goal "zero spark faults". Defect-and-Inspect wins the actuator for 120 s.
Actuator returned. Yield-and-Takt recovers give-away through the cooling trough instead. Wall holds at 0.80 mm nominal.
Illustrative scenario.
A plant does not go from manual to unattended in one step. Draweon makes the level explicit, auditable and reversible at any time. The first release runs shadow mode, then assist mode, then graduated autonomy.
| Level | What the agent does | What the human does | Where it sits in a pilot |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1 · Advisory | Recommends setpoints and explains why, with citations | Enters every change manually | Shadow mode, weeks 1 to 3 |
| L2 · Supervised | Proposes a write; it executes on approval | Approves each write in the review console | Assist mode, weeks 4 to 8 |
| L3 · Bounded | Writes inside tag, rate and magnitude limits | Approves ramps, die changes and reel release | Graduated autonomy, from week 9 if the plant is satisfied |
| L4 · Unattended | Runs the envelope without prompting | Sets the envelope; reviews the shift record | Planned; after qualification on the construction |
Draweon writes to production equipment. Every capability is scoped, every write is policy-checked, and every action is written to an append-only audit log the plant owns.
| Item | Scope | Status |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 Type I | Cloud control plane | QUEUED Planned, first 6 months |
| SOC 2 Type II | Cloud control plane | QUEUED Planned, 6 to 12 months |
| SSO and RBAC | Console and approvals | QUEUED Planned, 6 to 12 months |
| Standards-cited reasoning | UL, IEC, IPC, USCAR documents | RUNNING In the design, every answer cites its source |
| Per-tenant isolation | Recipes, models, memory | RUNNING In the design from day one |
| On-prem and plant-edge deployment | Sensitive producers | RUNNING Design option |
The questions plant directors and process engineers ask in the first meeting.
Yes, but only within an explicit tag allow-list with per-tag rate and magnitude limits, and only at the autonomy level your plant has set. Level 1 is advisory: Draweon recommends and a human enters everything. Design partners start there, in shadow mode, before supervised writes.
Control returns to the line controller's last known-good state. Draweon is a supervisory layer on top of the PLCs and gauges you already run, never a replacement for them, so an outage degrades the line to its current way of running, not to a stop.
Advisory recommendations start from the physics-based twin and the construction spec in the first weeks. Defect prediction and break prediction improve as line history and labelled events accumulate per construction. The first training sets are sized at 5 to 20 million labelled frames and events, a design target.
Only if you choose cloud training. Recipes, process models and defect libraries are isolated per tenant and never used to train another customer's models. A fully on-prem deployment at the plant edge is available for sensitive producers.
You are, the same as with any control strategy, which is why every write is policy-checked, bounded, logged and reversible, and why anything above your risk threshold waits for a named approver. The audit log records the request, the reasoning, the limits applied and the human decision.
A paid pilot on one line, scoped to a single workflow with a baseline agreed in writing. Weeks 1 to 3 are connection and shadow-mode observation, weeks 4 to 8 are assist mode with engineer approval, and bounded autonomy follows if the plant is satisfied with the recommendations.
Start with one drawing, stranding or extrusion line and one measurable baseline. A paid pilot on wall and concentricity, break prediction or spark prediction shows the number before you commit further.
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