This white paper explores how an open edge-to-cloud platform enables organizations to connect virtually any measurement source, data format, and engineering system into a unified engineering data ecosystem. By eliminating data silos and vendor-specific barriers, engineering data becomes accessible, reusable, and actionable across the entire development process. This creates the foundation for reproducible engineering workflows, accelerated development cycles, enterprise-wide collaboration, and future AI-driven engineering intelligence.

This document describes a modular edge-to-cloud architecture designed to connect virtually any measurement source, data format, and engineering system into a unified and reliable data flow. Through a vendor-independent connectivity framework, heterogeneous data can be collected, validated, contextualized, and integrated across organizational boundaries. The architecture transforms fragmented data landscapes into a consistent, reproducible, and workflow-ready information stream, ensuring that engineering data is available where and when it is needed.

Foundry is the workflow orchestration layer of NVH-One. It transforms validated NVH measurement data into reproducible, scalable, and versioned processing pipelines, eliminates manual bottlenecks in data analysis, and ensures standardized methods across teams, locations, and projects. This accelerates technical decision-making, improves the comparability of results, and ensures full traceability of data processing. At the same time, Foundry enables the scaling of engineering expertise without requiring a proportional increase in the number of specialized experts.