Siemens has incorporated a new feature called "Electrical Designer" into its TIA Selection Tool Cloud, enhancing efficiencies in electrical planning.
This innovative software, exclusive to the IEC market, embeds essential electrical knowledge and standards expertise, streamlining processes previously bogged down by laborious research and manual work.
Electrical Designer's Role in Streamlining Planning
The Electrical Designer drastically simplifies main circuit planning by automatically choosing components, conducting short-circuit verifications, defining cable sizes, and compiling necessary documentation, all within a single integrated process.
In traditional setups, electrical planners often rely on outdated concepts due to time constraints and complex designs that require significant rework when mechanical and electrical documents fail to align.
Advantages of Cloud Technology
By leveraging cloud technology, Siemens' Electrical Designer hastens tasks that once took hours
By leveraging cloud technology, Siemens' Electrical Designer hastens tasks that once took hours, completing them in significantly less time.
The tool ensures compliance with IEC 60204-1 standards, facilitates precise cable sizing, and streamlines the documentation process within a unified workflow.
This technological leap not only reduces manual calculations but also offers remote collaboration capabilities, allowing users to access current planning data from any location.
Revolutionizing Electrical Planning
Andreas Matthé, CEO of Electrical Products at Siemens Smart Infrastructure, remarked, "Electrical Designer from Siemens is a quantum leap in electrical planning. It’s the world's first browser-based solution to combine standards compliance, short-circuit analysis, and automatic dimensioning."
This advancement reduces planning time by half, minimizes errors, and integrates specific standards knowledge, heralding a new era for engineering.
Key Features and Benefits
The Electrical Designer stands out for offering comprehensive short-circuit analysis in line with IEC standards, covering everything from individual loads to entire machine designs. It automates component selection and produces complete parts lists and documentation based on knowledge of current standards like IEC 60204-1.
As a browser-based tool, it eliminates the need for software installations and maintenance, providing device-independent access and ensuring effortless project management and scalability. Additionally, its flexible calculation logic allows planners to simulate various short-circuit scenarios, tailoring the electrical system to specific grid conditions.
Availability and Presentation
Electrical Designer is freely available to all TIA Selection Tool Cloud users and will be showcased at the Smart Production Solutions (SPS) trade fair from November 25 to 27, 2025, in Nuremberg, Germany, where Siemens will occupy a space in Hall 11.
Siemens has expanded the TIA Selection Tool Cloud with the new “Electrical Designer” feature for electrical planning.
This smart software is the first and only in the IEC market (application of International Electrotechnical Commission standards) that includes basic electrical knowledge and standards expertise, eliminating the need for time-consuming research and complex manual work.
Electrical Designer simplifies main circuit design by automatically selecting components, verifying short-circuits, sizing cables, and creating all necessary documentation in one easy process.
Siemens’ Electrical Designer
Electrical planners often encounter limitations when designing electrical equipment for machines. An overabundance of caution and time pressure can result in the adoption of old plans, including outdated or inefficient concepts.
Frequently, mechanical design data and documents cannot be processed seamlessly in the electrical design and have to be reworked. This offers enormous potential for savings and quality improvement. Siemens’ Electrical Designer, part of the TIA Selection Tool Cloud, helps save time and avoid errors, therefore improving planning quality.
Cloud technology
Tasks that used to take hours can now be done in less than half the time: the Electrical Designer automatically selects the components for the complete main circuit in accordance with IEC 60204-1, provides short-circuit verification, allows for precise cable sizing, and creates the necessary documentation – all in one workflow.
This eliminates the need for time-consuming manual calculations. Thanks to cloud technology, users can collaborate on projects from anywhere and always have access to the latest planning data.
This innovation strengthens Siemens' position as a technology pioneer in digital control panel design and opens up new possibilities for more efficient engineering.
Quantum leap in electrical planning
“Electrical Designer from Siemens is a quantum leap in electrical planning. It’s the world's first browser-based solution to combine standards compliance, short-circuit analysis, and automatic dimensioning. It cuts planning time in half, eliminates errors, and provides specific standards knowledge. For us, this is the future of engineering,” said Andreas Matthé, CEO Electrical Products at Siemens Smart Infrastructure.
Benefits at a glance:
- End-to-end short-circuit analysis: Electrical Designer is the first and only solution on the market to offer end-to-end verification of short-circuit resistance in accordance with IEC standards, from the individual load to the feed point in the machine.
- Complete machine design instead of individual calculations: If the software knows the loads for the machine, the tool automatically selects suitable switchgear, controls, and network components and generates parts lists and complete documentation.
- Up-to-date knowledge of standards: Electrical Designer automatically checks the requirements defined in the relevant standards (currently IEC 60204-1).
- Cloud-based and future-proof: As a completely browser-based solution, there is no need for installations and updates. Electrical Designer offers device-independent access at any time using the latest software, enables easy project transfer, and helps companies cut planning times in half. This increases scalability and ensures investment protection.
- Simulate and test load limits: Thanks to flexible calculation logic, planners can simulate different short-circuit scenarios in order to optimally adapt the electrical system to local grid conditions.
Electrical Designer is available free of charge to all TIA Selection Tool Cloud users. It will also be presented at the Smart Production Solutions (SPS) trade fair held from November 25 to 27, 2025 in Nuremberg, Germany. The Siemens booth will be in Hall 11.
