Rakhmetzhanov: 80% of industrial process drawings remain trapped in legacy formats
Tamerlan Rakhmetzhanov · Automating Process Engineering Workflows with Temirlan Rakhmetzhanov of Armeta · Aug 6, 2026 · at 2:53
Tamerlan Rakhmetzhanov, co-founder and CEO of Armeta, outlines the technical challenge of digitizing legacy documentation across refineries and industrial plants.
0:00 / 0:09exact quote · 10.0s
720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“80% of those drawings are kept in legacy formats, like PDF scans, JPEGs, since all the refineries and plants were built 20, 3040, 50 years ago.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from Tamerlan Rakhmetzhanov
Rakhmetzhanov: Data center outages stem from civil engineering design flaws
“The reason behind those outages is mainly the cooling and systems and power generation and connectivity systems, because data centers were designed, engineered from a civil engineering point of view.”
Rakhmetzhanov: Industrial buyers are growing tired of pure SaaS models
“Nowadays there are tons of different AI tools, applications, platforms, but everyone is getting tired of certain
software as a service model.
you know, everyone demands results, you know, like end to end results basically.”
Rakhmetzhanov: Designing industrial facilities currently takes up to five years
“Nowadays, it can take up to five years, you know, and we wanted to do it like in a couple of days, weeks maximum, you know, but we realized that when you're tackling generative design, generate, to generate whatever, first you need the data and context.”
Armeta considers acquiring a traditional US engineering firm to make it AI-native
“We have an idea of potentially soon acquiring a traditional engineering company in the US.
And making it AI native and provide AI native services, you know.
So, but this is a private equity story, growth equity story, but we're thinking about it.”
Rakhmetzhanov: Armeta pre-sells product features before writing code
“So now when I want to develop a certain feature even if I've not developed the feature itself, I go and tell all of my clients that I've already developed this feature. It is ready to be bought. Would you buy it right now? And they're like, hell no, man, like,…”