Hydropower is the largest renewable source of electricity and there is lot of focus in upgrading existing hydel Power plants in India, or set up new ones. With the rapid growth in the demand for electricity and increased credit risks in the financial markets, there is a strong business driver to reduce the design to commission cycle time of hydel power plant projects. The concept of knowledge based engineering and design automation can help the major Hydro OEM’s in reducing the engineering cycle time considerably. Hydro Turbine design process can be automated from the concept design stage, through layout design and detailed design phase, culminating in the automatic up.