Violet Labs: The Integration Hub Solving Hardware Data Chaos

About this episode

Lucy Hoag discusses how Violet Labs is solving hardware data chaos with a no-code integration platform.

Altium Develop connects your entire electronics product team — from design to supply chain to manufacturing — in one unified platform: https://www.altium.com/develop?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=ontrack-podcast&utm_content=violet-labs-the-integration-hub-solving-hardware-data-chaos Hardware engineering teams have long struggled with disconnected software tools — CAD systems that don't talk to PLMs, PLMs that don't sync with MES platforms, and engineers spending hours manually copying BOM data between systems. In this episode of the Altium OnTrack Podcast, host Zach Peterson sits down with Lucy Hoag, founder and CEO of Violet Labs, to explore how her company is tackling this pervasive problem. Lucy shares her journey from astronautical engineering and satellite design to building a no-code integration platform that acts as a centralized hub for all the disparate tools hardware teams rely on every day. Violet works like a "Zapier for hardware engineering" — connecting mechanical CAD, electrical CAD, PLM, MES, ERP, project management tools, and more through a single middleware platform. Lucy and Zach dig into why native integrations between major…

People in this episode

Host: Zach Peterson

Guest: Lucy Hoag

Topics covered

• hardware integration
• data orchestration
• no-code platforms
• engineering tools
• supply chain
• manufacturing

Keywords

• hardware engineering
• integration hub
• BOM data
• software tools
• aerospace
• data chaos

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Violet Labs, Altium, CAD, PLM, MES, ERP, AI, MCP server

More episodes of OnTrack: The PCB Design Podcast

• The Signal Integrity Tool Every Engineer Is Missing · May 19, 2026 · 47 min
• Drones, Robots & the Low-Altitude Economy: A New Industry Is Born · May 12, 2026 · 43 min
• PCB Metrology Gap: How SCAN Labs Is Automating Microsectioning · May 5, 2026 · 51 min
• High-Speed Interconnects for AI & Physical AI with Samtec · April 28, 2026 · 40 min
• Altium File Parsing, AI Design Reviews & PCB Viz Tools · April 21, 2026 · 50 min
• Is FPGA the Best Engineering Career? With Adam Taylor · April 14, 2026 · 37 min