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Siemens is extending the Eigen Engineering Agent with ECAD integration and standards-compliant project generation to support more automated industrial engineering workflows.
Siemens announced two new capabilities for the Eigen Engineering Agent, its purpose-built AI for industrial automation engineering. Launched in April 2026 at Hannover Messe, the agent moves AI beyond on-screen suggestions to action in the physical world.
According to Siemens, most AI assistants generate suggestions. The Eigen Engineering Agent does the work: it plans, executes, and validates industrial automation engineering tasks end to end. It understands the project, writes the control software, configures the system, and keeps refining its work until it meets defined quality benchmarks. This allows automation engineers to focus on system-level decisions.
The Eigen Engineering Agent works alongside TIA Portal, Siemens’ engineering software platform, and is part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio.
More than 100 companies in 19 countries are using the Eigen Engineering Agent, including ANDRITZ Metals in Austria, CASMT in China, and Prism Systems in the United States. The agent accelerates everyday engineering work such as programmable logic controller (PLC) programming, human-machine interface (HMI) visualization, and device configuration, with measurable gains.
With the new capabilities—ECAD integration and standards-compliant project generation—the Eigen Engineering Agent now understands more of the context that comes before software development itself, including hardware topology, machine structure, and engineering intent. Together, the capabilities move the Eigen Engineering Agent further upstream in the automation lifecycle, helping engineers start from the system as designed rather than from manual setup work.
Today, electrical and automation engineering happen in sequence, using different tools and different ways of describing the same machine. Electrical engineers design the wiring and hardware in ECAD tools. Automation engineers then program how the machine behaves, working from tags, function blocks, and control logic. Translating from one to the other is manual today: engineers retype lists of devices, fix mismatched names, and track down late hardware changes. That costs time and creates errors.
The Eigen Engineering Agent reads electrical design files in widely used formats, including XML and AML. It detects inconsistencies, resolves or flags them, adds devices to the TIA Portal project, configures the connections, and generates PLC tags grounded in the actual hardware topology. The result is a faster, cleaner start to every project and software that starts from the electrical design as built.