Case Study: a $2B Agricultural-Machinery OEM unifies CAD, perception, calibration, and telemetry data with SPREAD Product Explorer

a $2B-r&d agricultural-machinery OEM tests SPREAD across 5 data sources in a pilot

The customer, a $2b-r&d agricultural-machinery OEM, faced significant data fragmentation across its R&D processes for its software-defined tractors and harvesters. An engineer preparing a new vision module integration had to manually search five disconnected sources—CAD, perception-stack lineage, calibration archives, telemetry schemas, and tribal knowledge—a process that could take days. SPREAD was engaged to test its Product Explorer platform to address this challenge.

SPREAD implemented its Product Explorer, which uses a single engineering ontology to unify the customer's five disparate data sources. For a specific query, the solution delivered a consolidated view containing certified calibrations, tested perception-stack revisions, telemetry contracts, historical defect data, and queryable tribal knowledge. This replaced a multi-day search process for senior engineers, though specific measurable impacts from this pilot were not yet disclosed.