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Vision

A New Foundation for Engineering​

Engineering systems are becoming increasingly complex.

Modern products combine software, electronics, mechanics, safety, security, and cloud services. The knowledge required to develop these systems is distributed across many specialized tools.

Requirements are managed in one system.

Models in another.

Tasks somewhere else.

Source code in Git.

Tests in dedicated test management tools.

Documentation in a wiki.

Although these tools work well individually, they rarely share a common understanding of engineering knowledge.

ATON was created to change that.

Engineering Operating System​

ATON is an Open Engineering Operating System.

Instead of introducing yet another isolated engineering tool, ATON provides a common foundation on which engineering capabilities can be built.

Requirements Management.

Systems Modeling.

Project Management.

Configuration Management.

Test Management.

Risk Management.

AI Assistants.

All of them operate on the same engineering knowledge.

Engineering Knowledge Graph​

The core of ATON is the Engineering Knowledge Graph.

Engineering knowledge is represented as versioned artifacts connected through explicit relationships.

Artifacts are the primary building blocks of the system.

Relationships are first-class citizens.

Every change is versioned.

Every decision is traceable.

Every artifact can be reviewed.

Design Goals​

ATON is designed to be

  • Open
  • Git-native
  • Versioned
  • Extensible
  • Human-readable
  • API-first
  • AI-ready

Our Goal​

ATON is not intended to replace every engineering tool.

Its purpose is to provide a common operating system that allows engineering knowledge to exist as one coherent system.

Because engineering is not about documents.

Engineering is about knowledge.