Typed, ordered, inspectable
A run is a goal, a plan and a graph of typed steps. Every step has an agent, a tool, a duration and a status, and the whole record is kept per reel.
Features
Capability by capability, with the limit on each.
Draweon's features are the mechanics of a system that is allowed to touch production equipment: typed runs, a policy engine, named approvals, fused inspection, a twin, genealogy and an audit log. The list below is design scope, not a shipped feature list.
Illustrative scenario: EX-3 · 2.5 mm² class 2 PVC building wire, changeover, no spark faults
Features
What the platform does
Each capability names what it does and where its limit sits.
Limits enforced at call time
Tag allow-lists, per-tag rate and magnitude limits, autonomy level, shift, construction and interlock state are evaluated before any setpoint moves.
Named humans at the gate
Line-speed ramps, die changes and reel release wait for the approver the plant names. The request, the reasoning and the decision are logged.
Four modalities, one model
Vision, laser, eddy-current and spark-test signals fused into one estimate of cable health, localised to reel and length.
Rehearse before you run
Candidate recipes ranked on wall variance, concentricity, spark risk and give-away before a setpoint moves. Proven setpoints handed to the control agents.
The record of every reel
Conductor lot, draw and anneal record, lay, wall and concentricity trace, defect map, approvals and release decision, exportable for customer and regulatory review.
Approve, correct, feed back
Process and extrusion engineers see recommendations with their evidence, approve or correct them, and those corrections train the models.
Append-only, exportable
Every agent action with source signals, retrieved procedures, predicted impact, allowed range, rollback condition, approver and reel scope.
Every answer cites its source
Retrieval over construction specs, draw schedules, UL, IEC, IPC and USCAR documents and quality procedures, tenant-isolated.
The craft, written down
Per-plant yield and quality history and per-operator and engineer performance memory, versioned and scoped per tenant.
Rare cases, validated
Rare spark, pinhole, eccentricity and break variants generated to augment training and always validated against real distributions before promotion.
Many lines, one policy
Model versions promoted by line with canary rollout and automatic fallback; group policy with per-site override on the Enterprise tier.
Run timeline · scenario
One scenario run, step by step
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.
run_3d7a1e
EX-3 · 2.5 mm² class 2 PVC building wire
illustrative scenario
SUCCEEDED
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01
ingest.order
SUCCEEDED
0.6 s
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.
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02
twin.simulate
SUCCEEDED
41 s
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.
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03
draw.tension
SUCCEEDED
1 m 48 s
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.
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04
anneal.current
SUCCEEDED
54 s
Draw-and-Anneal · Annealer current trimmed against the live conductivity reading to hold the softness target without over-anneal through the speed change.
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05
strand.lay
SUCCEEDED
1 m 12 s
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.
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06
extrude.wall
SUCCEEDED
2 m 36 s
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.
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07
inspect.fuse
SUCCEEDED
continuous
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.
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08
approve.human
APPROVAL
38 s
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.
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09
reel.change
SUCCEEDED
2 m 05 s
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.
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10
reel.release
SUCCEEDED
1 m 10 s
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.
Tool calls · scenario
The agent shows its work
Every tool invocation, argument and result is written to an append-only, human-readable log, and every reasoning step is expandable. Nothing about a run is hidden from the plant.
- 06:30:12mes.read_order({ line: "EX-3", construction: "BW-2.5-C2-PVC" })
- 06:30:12ok spec locked · wall 0.80 mm nominal · min 0.62 mm · spark 6 kV
- 06:30:13twin.simulate({ candidates: 36, horizon: "14 min" })
- 06:30:54ok best recipe #22 · wall var 0.018 · spark risk 0.04 · give-away 2.1%
- 06:30:55policy.evaluate({ recipe: 22, autonomy: "L3" })
- 06:30:55ok 8 writes permitted · 1 write requires human approval
- 06:30:56plc.write_setpoint({ tag: "RB1.CAPSTAN_T", delta: "-6%" })
- 06:32:44ok diameter 0.670 mm ±0.004 · break risk 0.31 → 0.09
- 06:32:45plc.write_setpoint({ tag: "ANN1.CURRENT", mode: "hold_conductivity" })
- 06:33:39ok conductivity on target · softness in window
- 06:33:40plc.write_setpoint({ tag: "ST2.LAY", to: "28 mm", spools: 7 })
- 06:34:52ok roundness 0.97 · payoff tension balanced
- 06:34:53plc.write_setpoint({ tag: "EX3.SCREW_RPM", zone3: "+4 °C" })
- 06:37:29ok wall 0.80 nominal · min 0.66 · concentricity 0.93
- 06:37:30sensors.fuse({ cams: 6, laser: true, eddy: true, spark: true })
- 06:39:04precursor: neckdown risk 0.58 · 12,480 m · zone 3
- 06:39:05plc.write_setpoint({ tag: "EX3.SCREW_RPM", delta: "+1.5%" })
- 06:39:21ok neckdown risk 0.58 → 0.06 · wall recovered
- 06:39:22approval.request({ action: "line_speed", to: "1250 m/min" })
- 06:41:52ok approved by shift process engineer · logged
- 06:41:53isaac.plan_path({ task: "reel_change", takeup: "TU3" })
- 06:43:58ok reel changed · payoff aligned · tension re-established
- 06:43:59mes.log_reel({ reel: "R-30417", genealogy: "full" })
- 06:45:09ok scenario complete · 10 steps · spark faults 0 · released
Reasoning trace
Plan, thought, action, observation, exactly as the orchestrator would record it.
GoalChange line EX-3 over to 2.5 mm² class 2 PVC building wire, ho…
Change line EX-3 over to 2.5 mm² class 2 PVC building wire, hold 0.80 mm nominal wall and concentricity, and finish the run with zero spark faults.
PlanSimulate the changeover on the twin first. Lead with drawing a…
Simulate the changeover on the twin first. Lead with drawing and annealing so the conductor is right before stranding, then set lay, then re-cut extrusion against the live wall reading. Fuse inspection continuously. Hold the line-speed ramp for a human.
ThoughtThe standing recipe raises line speed and screw speed together…
The standing recipe raises line speed and screw speed together. On the twin that produces a wall dip at zone 3 because the melt pressure lags the speed step. Sequencing the zone 3 temperature move ahead of the speed ramp removes it.
Actiontwin.simulate(candidates=36) returns recipe #22: zone 3 up 4 °…
twin.simulate(candidates=36) returns recipe #22: zone 3 up 4 °C before the ramp, screw speed trimmed to the live wall reading, lay 28 mm.
ObservationRecipe #22 predicts wall variance 0.018 mm, spark risk 0.04 an…
Recipe #22 predicts wall variance 0.018 mm, spark risk 0.04 and give-away 2.1%. Three candidates scored lower on give-away but pushed predicted minimum wall under the spec floor and were discarded.
ActionExecute recipe #22 under autonomy level L3: eight setpoint wri…
Execute recipe #22 under autonomy level L3: eight setpoint writes permitted, the line-speed ramp routed to the shift process engineer.
ObservationNeckdown precursor at 12,480 m at 06:39:04. A 1.5% screw-speed…
Neckdown precursor at 12,480 m at 06:39:04. A 1.5% screw-speed trim cleared it in 16 s with no reel quarantined.
OutcomeScenario complete. Wall 0.80 mm nominal, minimum 0.66 mm, conc…
Scenario complete. Wall 0.80 mm nominal, minimum 0.66 mm, concentricity 0.93, zero spark faults. Reel R-30417 released with full genealogy.
Where it pays
Four loops, four metrics
Draweon is not a dashboard. Each agent closes a loop a cable plant already measures in scrap, metres, kilowatt-hours and minutes. The tables show what each loop watches and what it is allowed to move.
Breaks and die wear
Catch the break before the wire goes
Draw tension, die force and temperature are fused at the edge into a rolling break-risk estimate. When risk crosses the threshold the agent has time to trim tension or step the die sequence instead of restringing a line.
- Tension, force and thermal streams fused at 100 to 1,000 Hz
- Die-wear estimate with a bounded tension response
- Every break and precursor labelled into the training set
agent.draw_anneal SUCCEEDED
| Signal | Watches | Moves |
|---|---|---|
| Draw tension | Watched per capstan | Trimmed inside per-tag limits |
| Die wear | Estimated from force and temperature | Die-change recommendation |
| Break risk | Scored continuously | Line-speed hold or tension trim |
Wall and concentricity
Stop paying for a thick wall
Walls run thick because thin is dangerous. Extrio fuses gauge, laser and wall-scan with melt and cooling telemetry and holds the wall at nominal, not at nominal plus a margin, while keeping minimum spot wall above the floor.
- Wall and concentricity predicted, not only measured
- Screw speed, zone temperature and cooling moved together
- Material-lot and moisture carried into the recipe
agent.insulate_jacket SUCCEEDED
| Signal | Watches | Moves |
|---|---|---|
| Wall thickness | Gauge, laser and wall scan | Screw speed and line speed |
| Concentricity | Wall scan per quadrant | Die centring recommendation and cooling |
| Melt pressure | Head and zone telemetry | Zone temperatures |
Sparks and pinholes
Predict the spark, then prevent it
A spark tester tells you about a fault after it is on the reel. Eddix fuses vision, laser, eddy-current and spark signals to score insulation health ahead of the tester and route a bounded correction upstream.
- Four modalities, one model of cable health
- Defects localised to reel and length
- Rare spark and pinhole cases augmented synthetically, validated against real events
agent.defect_inspect SUCCEEDED
| Signal | Watches | Moves |
|---|---|---|
| Spark events | Tester plus upstream precursors | Recommendation to Extrio, reel quarantine |
| Neckdowns and lumps | Laser and cameras | Screw-speed trim via Extrio |
| Eccentricity | Laser and wall scan | Die-centring and cooling recommendation |
Changeovers
Rehearse the run on the twin
Every changeover and new construction is simulated on the as-run line twin before a setpoint moves. Candidates that save polymer but push minimum wall under the floor or raise spark risk are discarded automatically.
- 10 to 100 candidate recipes per changeover
- Ranked on wall variance, concentricity, spark risk and give-away
- The chosen recipe is executed step by step and logged
twin.simweon SUCCEEDED
| Signal | Watches | Moves |
|---|---|---|
| Draw schedule | Die train and tension plan | Proven setpoints to Drawix |
| Lay length | Stranding geometry | Proven setpoints to Cablyn |
| Extrusion recipe | Screw, zones, cooling, speed | Proven setpoints to Extrio |
Autonomy
Four levels, set per agent and per tag
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 |
Accelerated computing
Physical AI, at the die train
Conductor moves at over a thousand metres a minute. Perception has to be local, deterministic and fast, so Draweon runs GPU inference at the plant edge and keeps training, simulation and optimisation in the cloud or on-prem.
Edge perception
4 to 12 cameras per line plus laser, eddy-current and spark streams fused at the line. Sub-50 ms alerting and sub-250 ms bounded control are the design targets. Jetson Thor is planned for higher sensor density.
Model serving
Vision, time-series, anomaly and quality models behind one orchestrator at the plant edge, with canary rollout by line and fallback to the previous validated version.
Training
Defect classifiers, sensor-fusion models, time-series prognostics and cable-process reasoning models trained on reel telemetry and engineer corrections. Dedicated training capacity is planned.
Line twin
As-run drawing, stranding, extrusion, thermal and tension simulation. Physics-informed surrogates are planned so recipes can be optimised at production cadence.
Synthetic data
Rare spark, pinhole, eccentricity, neckdown and break variants generated and validated against real gauge, spark and vision distributions before promotion. Planned.
Optimisation
Line sequencing, reel changeovers, energy allocation, takt and constrained setpoint proposals.
Robot handling
Spool, reel and payoff and take-up motion planned and validated in simulation before it runs next to moving conductor.
Guardrails
An agent that can move a screw speed needs a leash
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.
- Bounded action space. Each agent writes only to an explicit tag allow-list, inside per-tag rate and magnitude limits.
- Policy engine before every write. Autonomy level, shift, construction, interlock state and operator presence are evaluated before a setpoint moves.
- Human-in-the-loop gates. Anything above the site threshold, such as line-speed ramps, die changes and reel release, waits for a named approver.
- Immutable audit log. Append-only and exportable. Every action records source signals, retrieved procedures, predicted impact, allowed range, rollback condition, approver and reel scope.
- Hard fallback. Loss of the edge node, the network or a model returns control to the line controller's last known-good state.
- Tenant and IP isolation. Construction recipes, defect libraries and process memory never cross a customer boundary. On-prem deployment is available for sensitive producers.
Compliance posture
| 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 |
FAQ
Straight answers
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.
Get started
See the features on one line
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.