Every machine is a configured system
Reusable modules combine with customer-specific mechanics, control logic, safety functions and interfaces, creating a unique evidence baseline.
Industry · Industrial Automation
Engineer connected machines with control, speed and traceability
KlugSpice connects controlled project context, specialist agents and human approval across the industrial automation lifecycle.
Why it matters
Complexity grows across the industrial automation lifecycle
Machine builders coordinate safety, control software, automation hardware, cybersecurity and commissioning across customized deliveries.
IT and OT risks now converge
Functional safety and industrial cybersecurity decisions must remain connected across PLC software, networks, drives, robots and remote services.
Commissioning knowledge is easily lost
Site changes, overrides, acceptance results and operator decisions often remain disconnected from the engineering artifacts they modify.
Governed execution model
Connect context. Execute engineering. Approve with confidence.
KlugSpice establishes a controlled loop between project truth, AI-assisted work, engineering review and system-of-record evidence.
Connect controlled context
Bring the relevant requirements, designs, standards, baselines and project decisions into a permission-aware engineering context.
Execute a bounded task
A specialist agent analyzes or prepares a defined engineering outcome using only the approved context and rules for that task.
Review with evidence
Engineers inspect sources, assumptions, relationships, quality checks and rationale before deciding what is acceptable.
Release through control
Only authorized outputs move into controlled repositories, preserving provenance, review history and configuration status.
Engineering authority remains human. KlugSpice prepares, analyzes and proposes. Authorized engineers review, decide and approve.
Execution outcomes
Execution outputs for industrial automation programmes
KlugSpice maps the common execution platform to IEC 61508, IEC 62061, ISO 13849-1, IEC 62443 and the EU Machinery Regulation without claiming that software replaces certification, assessment or engineering judgment.
Machine and control requirements
Prepared from the programme’s approved context and terminology.
Safety-function evidence
Connected to responsible roles, sources and downstream evidence.
Automation interface traceability
Reviewed against relevant project and standard expectations.
Commissioning and change records
Maintained through configuration change and release decisions.
Implementation detail
Define the control contract before an agent runs
Useful engineering automation starts with an explicit agreement about authority, scope and evidence. For engineer connected machines with control, speed and traceability, the team should define these conditions as part of the workflow—not leave them inside an informal prompt.
Authoritative inputs
Name the repositories, projects, baselines, artifact types and standards that may inform the task. Define how conflicts, obsolete versions and missing information are handled.
Expected outcome
Specify the work-product structure, required relationships, terminology, quality criteria and evidence that make a proposal reviewable and useful.
Decision responsibility
Assign who can review technical correctness, who can approve release, and which findings require escalation or independent evaluation.
Controlled synchronization
Determine what can be written back, to which system and lifecycle state, with the source references, rationale, reviewer identity and configuration history preserved.
Evaluation model
Measure reviewed engineering value—not generated volume
A credible pilot compares a defined baseline with accepted outcomes. Raw token counts, documents generated or model confidence are not engineering success measures.
- Quality
- Accepted findings, defect escape and required rework
- Coverage
- Meaningful relationships and verified lifecycle gaps
- Effort
- Preparation plus review time against the current method
- Control
- Provenance, approvals, access scope and writeback integrity
Operating responsibility
What changes for each role
KlugSpice should reduce context reconstruction and repetitive preparation without blurring responsibility. The operating model makes contribution, review and release authority visible.
Receive source-linked proposals, quality observations and impact context. Engineers correct assumptions, make technical decisions and approve suitable outcomes.
Define process expectations and evidence criteria, evaluate gaps and review whether recorded execution demonstrates the intended control.
Control connector scope, field mapping, identities, permissions, failure handling and lifecycle states available for approved synchronization.
Prioritize valuable workflows, remove organizational constraints and evaluate quality, effort, coverage and risk without treating AI output volume as progress.
Control and evidence
Evidence aligned to IEC 61508, IEC 62061, ISO 13849-1, IEC 62443 and the EU Machinery Regulation
Applicable standards, customer obligations and organizational processes become governed context for each task. KlugSpice helps prepare and connect evidence; independent authorities retain certification and assessment responsibility.
Source and version provenance
Role-based access and task scope
Human review and approval history
Controlled repository writeback
Relationship and change history
Exportable evidence package
Connected platform
Continue exploring KlugSpice
Move between the platform, engineering solution, industry and standard views without losing the engineering thread.
Questions teams ask
Frequently asked questions
Clear answers for engineering, quality, security and programme leaders.
Does KlugSpice certify compliance with IEC 61508, IEC 62061, ISO 13849-1, IEC 62443 and the EU Machinery Regulation?
No. KlugSpice helps teams prepare, connect and review engineering evidence. Certification, approval and assessment remain with the appropriate accountable and independent authorities.
Can KlugSpice use our industrial automation processes and templates?
Yes. Customer standards, tailoring, terminology, templates and quality rules can be included in the controlled task context.
Does KlugSpice replace accountable engineers?
No. KlugSpice prepares, analyzes and proposes engineering work. Authorized engineers remain responsible for technical decisions, review, approval and released baselines.
Does KlugSpice require replacing the existing toolchain?
No. KlugSpice is designed to connect controlled systems such as ALM, requirements, PLM, test and code repositories while those systems remain authoritative.
Can KlugSpice run inside a customer environment?
Yes. Deployment options include a customer VPC, on-premise and fully air-gapped operation with customer-controlled identity, repositories and model infrastructure.
Start with controlled scope
Prove value on one controlled workflow.
Select a measurable engineering bottleneck, connect the approved context and compare reviewed outputs with the current method.