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## [Engineering Data Value Chain: Why Preparation Wins](https://blog.viviota.com/engineering-data-value-chain-why-preparation-wins)

 Posted by [Barry Hutt](https://blog.viviota.com/author/barry-hutt) on Mar 6, 2026 1:40:11 PM

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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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## [CES 2026 Blog Series: Mind-boggling technology observations](https://blog.viviota.com/ces-2026-blog-series-mind-boggling-technology-observations)

 Posted by [Barry Hutt](https://blog.viviota.com/author/barry-hutt) on Jan 15, 2026 10:33:13 AM

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[![Consumer Electronic Show 2026](https://blog.viviota.com/hubfs/AI-Generated%20Media/Images/Generate%20an%20image%20that%20can%20be%20posted%20on%20all%20sociel%20media%20with%20the%20correct%20ratios%20The%20image%20showcases%20a%20bustling%20exhibition%20hall%20at%20CES%202026%20filled%20wit.png)](https://blog.viviota.com/ces-2026-blog-series-mind-boggling-technology-observations)

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

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## [Stop Losing Time: How Engineering Data Can Save Millions](https://blog.viviota.com/stop-losing-time-how-engineering-data-can-save-millions)

 Posted by [Barry Hutt](https://blog.viviota.com/author/barry-hutt) on Mar 31, 2025 3:27:15 PM

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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.

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## [Free Your Data From Digital Silos](https://blog.viviota.com/free-your-data-from-digital-silos)

 Posted by [Barry Hutt](https://blog.viviota.com/author/barry-hutt) on May 10, 2021 11:04:00 AM

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Customers turn to Viviota and to NI technology to better measure and analyze machine data from sensors. It turns out, sensor data does not always work well with traditional IT software, and there is a gap of software tools for this purpose.

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## [Smart Grid or Not, We Can’t Mess Around — It's Our Security](https://blog.viviota.com/smart-grid-or-not-we-cant-pussy-foot-around-its-security)

 Posted by [Patricia Friar](https://blog.viviota.com/author/patricia-friar) on May 6, 2021 4:30:00 PM

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The complexity of the electric power industry creates enormous opportunity for Fortune 500 companies and promising technology companies. Increased energy demands, capacity limitations, environmental constraints, varying load shapes, distributed generation and the deployment of new smart technologies all come into play.

The epic storm in February in our home state, Texas, exemplified the fagile nature of our electric grid and the catastrophic consequences of it failure. While new technologies will be developed to build a robust and resilient 21st Century grid, this new grid is still in its infancy and will take years, most likely decades, to reach that utopia of which we dream.

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## [What Will it Take for Fully Autonomous Vehicles to Become a Reality?](https://blog.viviota.com/what-will-it-take-for-fully-autonomous-vehicles-to-become-a-reality)

 Posted by [Dr. Fanqi Meng](https://blog.viviota.com/author/dr-fanqi-meng) on Dec 4, 2018 4:43:00 PM

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*Self-driving cars offer a safe, efficient and cost-effective solution that will dramatically redefine the future of human mobility. *

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