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Digital twins are being put to work across industrial operations, aerospace, healthcare, and everything in between. This edition of Industry Signals revisits the topic with a focus on deployment of this technology as use cases grow more demanding, as well as what technology leaders get wrong at the start of a digital twin investment.

Siemens has launched Eigen Engineering Agent, a purpose-built AI that connects directly to TIA Portal and understands your actual project context to deliver ready-to-use PLC code, HMI scripts, drive configurations, and more. Unlike generic AI tools, Eigen uses multi-step reasoning and self-correction to complete engineering tasks end-to-end, not just generate suggestions. Piloted with over 100 companies across 19 countries, it delivers up to 5x faster execution and 50% greater efficiency — and TIA Portal users on V19, V20, or V21 can sign up for a trial now.

Every spring, Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute releases its AI Index: a comprehensive, data-driven look at the state of artificial intelligence across research, industry, policy, and public opinion. The 2026 edition, published this month, draws on data from McKinsey, GitHub, Lightcast, Epoch AI, and dozens of other sources. The headline finding is not that AI is plateauing. It is accelerating, and the implications are spreading well beyond the lab.