AI for pump and valve manufacturers, tested on data sheets your engineers already answered.

Three buyers, three kinds of paper. A process plant sends a data sheet with a tag number and a specification behind it. A water utility sends a specification section, often through its engineer: the City of Mercer Island's 2025 request for a sewer pump station buys pumps, check valves and services together, says the listed performance requirements must be met with no exceptions, and makes each pump's submittal information part of the bid. A distributor may send a model number and one line about the duty. Each inquiry asks an applications engineer to turn someone else's format into your products, and every closed quote shows how that was done. Those quotes are what the proof of concept gets scored against.

Pump buyers choose between standards. ASME B73.1 covers horizontal, end-suction, single-stage, centerline-discharge centrifugal pumps, and it intends that pumps of the same dimension designation from any source be interchangeable in mounting dimensions, nozzle size and location, input shafts, baseplates and foundation bolt holes. API 610 sorts pumps with type codes, OH for overhung, BB for between-bearings and VS for vertically suspended, and its abstract reaches even to pumps running in reverse as hydraulic power recovery turbines. A plant that writes one and a plant that writes the other are asking for different machines and different paperwork, even at the same flow and head.

Valves split by how they are used. MSS SP-61, the pressure testing practice first adopted in 1961, was written for valves in full-open and full-closed service, and its foreword sends control valves to ISA-75.19.01 and FCI 70-2 instead. A plant that builds both keeps two sets of test language, and a draft that applies the wrong one is exactly what your reviewer should catch.

One federal rule treats your two product lines differently. EPA's American Iron and Steel requirement for State Revolving Fund water projects names valves as covered products. EPA's published answers say pumps are mechanical equipment that does not need to meet it, and that a pumping assembly is a distinct product off the list. They also keep gate valves inside the rule while treating sluice and slide gates as outside it. One order for a station can hold a valve that has to be domestic or waived right next to a pump that doesn't. This page describes the rule and is not legal advice, so your team decides what applies.

Relief valves answer to another authority. The National Board runs the capacity certification behind the NB mark that makers and assemblers put on pressure relief devices, and it acts as ASME's designee for the shop reviews behind the V, HV, UV and UD designators. A draft can record that an order asks for those marks. Whether a given valve may carry one belongs to your quality staff.

One limit covers both jobs. Nothing in the proof of concept touches your ERP, your configurator, your quality system, a live quote or a live certificate. It never selects a pump or valve for a service and never signs a test report. An applications engineer checks every quote and quality staff release every document package. Defense and aerospace orders stay out of the test.