The Data Foundation Journey
Connect every machine. Trust every number.
The Problem
Your machines are talking. Your data isn't.
Everyone wants a Unified Namespace: one real-time source of truth feeding analytics and AI. However, the #1 cause of UNS failure is governance and data quality, not the broker.
Raw, inconsistent OT data
Every machine names things differently: fault vs. alarm, different cycle-time math. Without harmonization you get a chaotic namespace, not a unified one.
No context, no master data
A tag of “225°” means nothing until you tie it to product, work order, and process step, and to trusted asset, BOM, and site records.
Governance becomes unmanageable
Schema-less publishing across hundreds of plants drifts into duplicate, ungoverned chaos. No one owns the namespace.
It breaks at global scale
Sites disagree on naming and hierarchy. Synchronizing one model across plants and millions of points is where rollouts die.
Inside the Foundation
One trusted model of your factory, owned for you.
The Data Foundation accelerates the manufacturing AI transformation journey by making trustworthy, contextual data available faster and at greater scale.
1 · CONNECT
Connect everything
OT and IT: PLCs, SCADA, sensors up through MES, ERP, historians and data lakes. Legacy or modern. Hundreds of prebuilt connectors.
2 · NORMALIZE
Normalize & contextualize
We turn raw tags into contextual events tied to product, asset, BOM and site: a governed semantic model that stays consistent everywhere.
3 · GOVERN
Govern & operate
Arch owns the namespace: standards, lineage, access control and ongoing management, so the foundation stays trustworthy at global scale.
Real-time operations (UNS)
Trusted master data (MDM)
Fed, not replaced
Your MES, ERP, QMS, EAM, and historian all stay in place. The foundation reads from every one of them and maps context in both directions, down to the equipment and up to the enterprise. It sits alongside the systems you already run, never in place of them.
The Journey
The journey to an autonomous factory starts with governance and data quality.
Five levels separate siloed machines from a line that corrects itself. To accelerate operational performance and find operational excellence with AI, manufacturers must start with trusted, governed data at scale.
SILOED SYSTEMS
Machines run independently. A human bridges every gap by hand.
CONNECTED
SYSTEMS
Data flows to one central system. Teams see across lines for the first time.
UNIFIED MODEL
Product mapping and meaning span quality and planning. The data turns AI-ready.
AI ACTIONS
Agents run process, planning and quality use cases. Operations get ahead of problems.
AUTONOMOUS
AGENTS
AI runs the line in lock step with demand, correcting itself as it goes.
See which level your operation is on today.
The Product
The foundation, delivered as a product.
The Data Foundation is the governed model layer, and it comes with Arch Connector Platform beneath it, so you never assemble the two. It’s not just about the number of connectors. Many vendors can connect machines. The difference is how quickly connectivity enables the factory context required for operational intelligence, AI reasoning, and measurable outcomes.
Arch Data Foundation
- One governed model of the factory that every application and agent inherits.
- Context synced out of your core manufacturing systems, mapped both directions.
- Open APIs and lakehouse access, so the model stays yours and composable.
Built on Arch Connector Platform · 100+ machines connected in weeks, zero downtime
Proof
Already proven at the world's largest manufacturers
Connectivity + UNS across the global footprint
Three centrally-managed regional brokers (Americas, Europe, Asia) standardizing machine data. Software and hardware connectors across SMT and mechanicals, fed back into MES.
From connectivity to AI at scale
Started in global SMT connectivity and analytics, the data foundation first. Then expanded to AI-guided action across factories. Jabil invested in Arch.
100+
machines connected in weeks, zero downtime
$5M+
saved via standardized data and AI maintenance
97%+
OEE improvement on critical SMT assets
Let's map your data
foundation.
Start with one line. Prove the value. Scale globally.
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