AI-Assisted KiCad–Codebeamer MCP Integration Demo shows how using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as an integration layer enables automation of manufacturing engineering tasks, using requirements‑to‑design compliance as a business case. In this demonstration, MCP acts as a standard integration layer between Codebeamer® for requirements management and KiCad® for PCB design, orchestrated through an AI assistant. This setup shows how organizations can move beyond disconnected tools and manual hand‑offs to achieve automated validation, correction, and traceability across the product development lifecycle.
In this context, MCP also provides the mechanism through which AI systems can access, interpret, and act on engineering data across tools.
The demo focuses on a common manufacturing challenge: ensuring that design artifacts remain compliant with defined system and component requirements. By leveraging MCP, requirements defined in Codebeamer® are automatically validated against the PCB design in KiCad®. Non‑compliances are immediately identified, visualized directly in the design environment, and corrected through natural‑language commands—without manual rework.
This allows AI to reason over both requirements and design data, enabling intelligent validation and automated decision-making in engineering workflows.
This business scenario illustrates how MCP can be used to:
- Reduce engineering effort spent on manual compliance checks
- Reduce human error that lead to failed downstream manufacturing processes
- Improve design quality and readiness for manufacturing
- Maintain end‑to‑end traceability for audits and regulatory needs
- Scale automation to other manufacturing workflows beyond PCB design
Together, these capabilities illustrate how MCP enables not only automation but also AI-driven execution of engineering workflows.
Ultimately, the demo shows that MCP is not just a technical integration, but a foundation for industrial automation across engineering and manufacturing processes—starting with requirements‑driven design compliance and enabling AI-ready engineering data and workflows.
Through this functionality, the demo showcases how AI can interact with and execute engineering tasks using MCP as the underlying context layer.
The functionality of AI-Assisted KiCad–Codebeamer MCP Integration Demo provides the ability to:
- View and inspect existing PCB designs in KiCad®, including 3D visualization of PCB1 (LM386 Audio Amplifier) from multiple angles.
- Validate PCB designs against system and component requirements using a natural‑language AI Assistant directly inside KiCad®.
- Display a structured Validation Report highlighting failed requirements within the AI Assistant interface.
- Visually highlight non‑compliant components and layout issues directly in the KiCad® PCB Editor and 3D Viewer.
- Automatically fix PCB designs by issuing natural‑language correction requests based on unmet requirements.
- Review the regenerated, compliant PCB design in the KiCad® 3D Viewer after AI‑driven fixes.
- Ensure requirements traceability by reviewing PCB projects in Codebeamer® and confirming that requirements are marked as fixed or satisfied.
- Re‑run validation to confirm full compliance, producing a successful validation report with no errors.
- Create new PCB projects in Codebeamer® (for example, PCB2 – NE555 LED Blinker) and define their system requirements.
- Generate new PCB designs directly from requirements using natural‑language commands in the KiCad® AI Assistant.
- Inspect the AI‑generated PCB designs in KiCad® 3D Viewer to verify layout and component placement from different perspectives.
Overall, the demo highlights how structuring and connecting engineering data through MCP creates a foundation for AI-ready enterprise environments, where intelligent systems can operate across tools and processes.
Watch a short demo video below to see the current functionality of the AI-Assisted KiCad–Codebeamer MCP Integration Demo.
If you are interested in learning more about the demonstrated technologies and how they can be utilized for your organization’s needs, please contact us to discuss the details.
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