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Press Release17 June 2026Siemens AGMunich/Paris
Siemens takes AI for the physical world to the next level with two new Eigen Engineering Agent capabilities
Industrial AI that acts, not just advises
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 the TIA Portal, Siemens’ engineering
software platform, and is part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio.
Productivity gains in the real world
More than
100 companies in 19 countries are using the Eigen Engineering Agent, including
ANDRITZ Metals (Austria), CASMT (China), and Prism Systems (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:
- 2 to 5 times faster execution than manual workflows
- up to 50 percent efficiency gains in engineering
- 80 percent improvement in overall solution quality
“The Eigen
Engineering Agent shows what AI can deliver beyond the digital world,” said
Peter Koerte, member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and the company’s
Chief Technology Officer and Chief Strategy Officer. “It makes companies up to
50 percent more efficient in complex engineering work, while making the
results more reliable. That’s what it takes to build the machines, factories
and infrastructure that keep everyday life running – and it’s what real value
from AI in the physical world looks like.”
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. The capabilities together 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.
ECAD integration: closing the gap between electrical design and automation code
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.
From machine description to a standards-compliant project
Every new
automation project starts the same way. Engineers break the machine down into
parts, name the modules, organize the data and define how the machine moves
between states. Even experienced teams spend days on this before they can write
a single line of control software. New hires take longer.
The Eigen
Engineering Agent now turns machine descriptions into standards-compliant
projects in minutes. Engineers describe the machine in plain language: its
stations, devices and how it should behave. The agent generates a complete
project that follows the Siemens Automation Framework, Siemens'
best-practice reference for structuring TIA Portal projects. The project
opens directly in TIA Portal, ready to build on.
“Engineering
teams lose time between electrical design and software and between knowing best
practices and applying them,” said Vasi Philomin, Executive Vice President and
Head of Data and AI at Siemens. “With
these new capabilities, the Eigen Engineering Agent brings hardware topology,
system structure and engineering intent into the automation workflow, enabling automation
engineers to start from a project that already reflects the system they need to
automate. This way engineers can focus more on the work that matters.”
Both capabilities
are included in the standard Eigen Engineering Agent subscription at no extra
cost.
Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility, and healthcare. The company’s purpose is to create technology to transform the everyday, for everyone. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more livable, and transportation more sustainable. A leader in industrial AI, Siemens leverages its deep domain know-how to apply AI – including generative AI – to real-world applications, making AI accessible and impactful for customers across diverse industries. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably. In fiscal 2025, which ended on September 30, 2025, the Siemens Group generated revenue of €78.9 billion and net income of €10.4 billion. As of September 30, 2025, the company employed around 318,000 people worldwide on the basis of continuing operations. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.