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Why engineering data preparation is the hidden ROI driver

Engineering data preparation is the systematic process of cleansing, structuring, enriching, and tagging raw test and sensor data so engineers can find, trust, and use it quickly for analytics and AI. Done well, it turns chaotic files and logs into a reusable asset that cuts time-to-insight from days to seconds and unlocks predictive models.

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Viviota and Rockfish Partner to Accelerate AI-Driven Engineering with Real and Synthetic Data

Walking the floor at CES this year felt like stepping into a future that suddenly arrived all at once. Everywhere you turned, there were robots, intelligent machines, autonomous systems, and increasingly lifelike interfaces. But unlike past years, many of these technologies no longer felt like fragile demos or research experiments.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing a short series of observations from CES 2026 across three themes:

Engineering teams possess an underutilized goldmine in today’s fast-paced industrial landscape: their data. From sensor readings and vibration logs to video, sound, and test metadata, engineering data holds critical insights that can accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and safeguard operations against failure. Yet, a significant portion of engineering time is wasted merely searching for, organizing and wrangling data to make it usable.

Barry Hutt co-founder Viviota

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According to a recent survey, 47% of companies today consider AI/ML as a top priority in 2024. Yet, according to Harvard Business Review “cross-industry studies show, on average, less than half of an organization's structured data is actively used in making decisions—and less than 1% of its unstructured data is analyzed or even used at all.” ¹

This statistic should concern R&D or Engineering decision-makers. Companies are drowning in data, and very few companies can leverage their data because they are stuck trying to find, access, and connect various data sources. So first ask yourself these three questions:

The importance of data preparation has grown exponentially with the rise of AI. Data comes in many forms and formats, including homegrown applications, SQL databases, files, sensors, video, and physics-driven analog data. Traditionally, data cleansing is defined as detecting and correcting (or removing) corrupt or inaccurate records from a dataset, table, or database. The data challenge presented is identifying the data's incomplete, incorrect, inaccurate, or irrelevant parts and then replacing, modifying, or deleting the dirty or coarse data.