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Design & R&D · Design
Generative AI / Text, Code & Docs
Requirement-to-document drafting in product design
Live Core high effect
Core capability
Engineers and teams can prepare requirements, reports, instructions, and other technical documents much faster, while spending less time searching through fragmented knowledge sources.
How it works
The user describes the needed output, and the system first gathers the most relevant internal and reference material before generating a structured draft in the expected style and format.
Application here
AI generates first drafts of specifications, test plans, and design descriptions from requirement lists and templates.
Business impact
This removes a large share of first-draft documentation effort, allowing engineers to focus more on technical content and less on formatting and boilerplate.
Limitations
Drafts still require expert review for technical accuracy, especially in regulated or safety-critical contexts. Errors in source requirements can carry through into the generated documents.
In production
This is already useful for reducing the time spent writing engineering documents and searching through scattered technical knowledge.
Research
The next boundary is systems that can prepare much stronger first drafts while already taking standards, required references, and regulatory expectations into account from the start.
Examples
Alstom integrates Generative AI to its business processes with Azure OpenAI Service
Description: Alstom uses generative AI to check specification quality, rewrite poorly written requirements, and automatically generate new railway system specifications from existing ones, achieving 25% better overall quality and reducing non-quality costs.



AWS Virtual Engineering Workbench generates test cases from automotive software requirements
Description: In automotive production, VEW imports requirements, classifies them, and uses generative AI to create detailed test case descriptions via black-box techniques; human review ensures accuracy, reducing creation time by up to 80% in production use.



AroAgent AI Requirement Breakdown Case Study in Automotive Engineering
Description: Automotive team used AroAgent to decompose 1,500+ high-level system requirements into structured, traceable specifications matching templates; reduced manual drafting by 50%, integrated into Codebeamer for review and production workflows.
https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/1779144753409953376-alstom-azure-openai-service-travel-and-transportation-en-francehttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/using-generative-ai-to-create-test-cases-for-software-requirements/https://arorian.com/ai-requirement-breakdown-aroagent/
Sources
Siemens Industrial Copilot — ; Lewis et al., RAG —
https://press.siemens.com/global/en/pressrelease/siemens-and-microsoft-partner-drive-cross-industry-ai-adoptionhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11401