Case Study: a global #1 in filtration & fluid management achieves consistent engineering data continuity across six OEMs with SPREAD

a global #1 in filtration & fluid management runs one ontology across six OEMs with SPREAD

The customer, a global #1 in filtration and fluid management, faced a structural challenge in reconciling data across its six major OEM relationships. Each OEM imposed its own data-exchange standard, and the supplier had to manually piece together information from PLM, ERP, ALM, Excel, and tribal knowledge, creating inconsistency and risk to its multi-million-euro revenue lines. They partnered with SPREAD to test if one engineering ontology could replace all these disparate systems.

SPREAD implemented its Product Twin solution, which connected all the data sources into a single, coherent engineering ontology. This provided R&D engineers with consistent, multi-part answers to complex queries across all six OEM portfolios simultaneously, surfacing specific requirements and tribal knowledge in natural language. The solution ensured data continuity at scale, directly mitigating the structural risk of losing major OEM relationships and protecting significant annual revenue.