Digital Process Chain from Circuit Diagram to Assembly The World's First AI-Generated Control Cabinet

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At SPS 2025, WSCAD, Phoenix Contact, ABB and häwa presented the world's first AI-generated control cabinet and showed the digital process chain from circuit diagram to assembly. Phoenix Contact produced the demonstrator for the project.

Phoenix Contact took over the production of the enclosure and contributed its expertise in detailed planning and production. The project demonstrates the digital process chain from circuit diagram to assembly—a milestone for the control cabinet construction of the future. It is based on high-quality product data from wscaduniverse.com.

Sophia Hardeck, Director Product Marketing Industrial Cabinet Solutions at Phoenix Contact, emphasizes: "The future of enclosure construction lies in the intelligent and efficient connection of data from engineering with manual and automated production. The combination of WSCAD's engineering expertise and our know-how in detailed planning and production creates real added value for our customers" and Manfred Lindert, Head of Dept. Marketing Data Management at ABB GmbH, emphasizes the importance of digital product information: "Digital product data has a high priority at ABB. For this reason, we make this data available on the wscaduniverse.com platform and are continuously expanding our digital portfolio."

Premiere at the SPS 2025

At SPS 2025, WSCAD demonstrated live for the first time how AI support in the Electrix AI 2026 design software can be used to automatically generate a production-ready control cabinet layout from a digital circuit diagram—and how this layout is then implemented as a real control cabinet. Trade visitors were thus able to directly understand how artificial intelligence significantly accelerates and simplifies the engineering and manufacturing process in control and plant engineering for the first time.

This innovation is based on the AI functions of Electrix AI 2026, which can be described in three stages:

• AI Copilot as an interaction interface: It accepts instructions and questions and delivers results in a fraction of the usual time.
• Automated layout generation: proprietary AI models analyze circuit diagrams, identify components, select mounting plates and top-hat rails and place the devices. The models learn from users' projects and generate a production-ready layout in seconds.
• Digitization of existing documentation: When importing scanned paper or PDF documents, the AI recognizes symbols, assigns components, retrieves component data, identifies connections and reconstructs the complete circuit diagram.

Tasks that previously took many working hours can now be automated in a short space of time with the help of AI—with correspondingly positive effects on throughput times and workload.

Digital Process Chain in Practice

In the process sequence, the terminal strips are first transferred to the clipx Engineer software during assembly and automatically completed there. After importing them back into Electrix AI, material lists and terminal and wiring diagrams are created, which form the basis for the subsequent production steps.

The Marking system software generates labeling data, it also prints the equipment identifiers and ensures consistent labeling of all components. Wiring information is transferred to clipx Wire assist. The software supports the semi-automated cutting, stripping, crimping and labeling of wires and guides the operator through the entire process. A fully wired control cabinet is created in a short space of time. A 3D model of the cabinet was also on display at the häwa stand. Using VR goggles, visitors were able to virtually experience the later complete equipment.

Partner Project Shows the Potential of Digital Value Creation

Christian Rathgeber, Teamlead Business Development at WSCAD, emphasizes the importance of the joint appearance: "We are particularly pleased that, together with our partners, we were and are able to show the enclosure construction of tomorrow live." From his point of view, the advantages are obvious: "An AI-generated enclosure and the consistent use of the generated data for labeling systems, wire production, enclosure housings and mounting plates saves time and reduces errors."

With this joint project, WSCAD presented a market-ready solution for an intelligent and fully digitalized engineering and manufacturing process at SPS 2025. Visitors to the trade fair were able to follow live how a complete cabinet assembly is created from planning data within just a few minutes—precisely, transparently and digitally from start to finish.

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