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.
At Viviota, we help engineering organizations move from data chaos to clarity—from decisions based on intuition to actions guided by insight.
The 3 Core Drivers of Data Value
- Make More Money
Accelerate revenue growth by expediting R&D, shortening time-to-market, enhancing product quality, and discovering new revenue streams through digital services and innovation. - Save Money
Boost productivity by reducing engineers' time wrangling and locating data, streamlining test workflows, and enabling faster decision-making with accurate, structured insight. - Decrease Risk
Strengthen reliability and compliance by improving data integrity, ensuring traceability, and enabling early detection of issues before they escalate.
Focus: Saving Money by Eliminating Data Chaos
One of the most overlooked opportunities to reduce cost in R&D and product development is the time engineers spend searching for the right data. While exact numbers vary, research consistently shows that engineers spend significant time on non-value-added work, from organizing files to re-running tests due to missing or inaccessible data.
For instance, integrating knowledge graphs in engineering has been shown to facilitate quicker problem-solving by providing a unified view of data, thereby reducing the time spent on data retrieval (spread.ai).
At Viviota, we extend this idea further with event detection. Our platform automatically identifies and tags critical events in the data by analyzing multiple synchronized data sources, such as temperature, vibration, RPM, sound, and video.
Let’s say you’re an engineer designing a new transmission. You might want to be notified every time the RPM exceeds a certain level and the temperature crosses 200°F. Our platform flags these events and associates them with test metadata, environmental conditions, and part usage. This not only saves hours of manual filtering but also enables engineers to make fast, informed decisions.
Over time, these tagged, structured data sets become the foundation for machine learning models that go beyond identifying failure—they start predicting it. The result: higher product reliability, faster design cycles, and more efficient test operations.
Why This Matters for Engineering Organizations
Engineering-led organizations across industries—from automotive to aerospace to industrial manufacturing—can directly impact business performance by harnessing the full power of their test and sensor data. Whether you're designing next-gen products or optimizing legacy systems, data-driven engineering helps you:
- Speed up development timelines
- Reduce unnecessary rework or testing
- Gain insight into field failures before they happen
And ultimately, that means:
- Making more money through better products and faster market entry
- Saving money by reducing waste and boosting productivity
- Decreasing risk by preventing costly failures and improving compliance.
Visualizing the Value
The Data Value Chain
Viviota’s “Value Chain of Data” slide shows how raw data—from sensors, analog sources, and test environments—is transformed through cleansing, metadata creation, analytics development, and enterprise-wide execution. This linear view helps teams understand how value accumulates across each stage of the engineering data lifecycle.
Mapping the Value Chain to Business Outcomes
Taking the concept of the Value Chain of Data one step forward, you map business outcomes to stages. We have used this process as a blueprint to work with our customers to form a plan to maximize business outcomes from engineering data.
Ready to Get More from Your Engineering Data?
Want to learn more about how Viviota helps engineering teams move faster, smarter, and more confidently? Let’s talk.
Contact us at barry.hutt@viviota.com or visit www.viviota.com to see how our Time-to-Insight platform is transforming engineering operations.