A leading global home appliances manufacturer with operations spanning 40 factories and a network of 80 sales, production, and service companies needed to simplify and standardize a highly complex PLM environment. Multiple business units, processes, data models, systems, CAD environments, and legacy integrations created operational complexity and made it challenging to deliver consistent PLM capabilities across sites.
Teamcenter
NX
PDM
Multi-CAD
ERP Integration
PLM Systems
Test Automation
A leading global home appliances manufacturer operated a highly complex PLM environment spanning 42 countries and 26 sites, supporting more than 20,000 users across multiple business units. Differences in processes and data models, multiple systems, multi-CAD environments, ERP dependencies, and legacy integrations created significant operational complexity. The organization needed to establish greater consistency across sites while ensuring synchronized delivery and alignment with diverse business requirements.
At the same time, the PLM environment needed to support continuous business operations without disruption, while improving system performance, user experience, and scalability. The customer required a technology partner capable of consolidating and optimizing the landscape, strengthening integrations, standardizing processes, and modernizing the underlying infrastructure without business-hour downtime. This called for a long-term approach spanning PLM engineering, upgrades, automation, performance optimization, and ongoing support & consulting.
Bosch SDS supported the customer's long-term PLM transformation by combining business-aligned engineering, system consolidation, integration, modernization, and performance optimization. The approach focused on simplifying a complex global PLM environment while improving usability, scalability and system performance without disrupting business operations.
The long-term engagement enabled the customer to progressively simplify its PLM landscape while improving performance, standardization, and operational efficiency.
Achieved a 20% improvement in overall Teamcenter performance.
Improved platform performance through infrastructure modernization.
Enhanced the user experience across the PLM environment.
Optimized load balancing to improve system responsiveness.
Consolidated PLM sites and environments to reduce operational complexity.
Supported PLM upgrades while maintaining business continuity.
Improved alignment between engineering and manufacturing product structures.
Standardized PLM processes across multiple sites.
Introduced test automation and consultancy to strengthen operational efficiency.
Established a scalable model for continuous PLM support and optimization.
Bosch SDS brought together deep PLM expertise, engineering domain knowledge, and experience managing complex enterprise environments to support the customer's long-term digital engineering transformation. The engagement went beyond application support, with Bosch SDS progressively taking on responsibilities across PLM consolidation, upgrades, integration, automation, infrastructure modernization, and performance engineering.
The long-term partnership enabled Bosch SDS to continuously adapt the PLM ecosystem to changing business requirements while maintaining operational continuity. By combining business-aligned PLM solutions with infrastructure and application optimization, Bosch SDS helped simplify a complex landscape, improve Teamcenter performance by 20%, and create a more standardized and scalable foundation for global product development.
