Our client grappled with siloed data, resulting in poor collaboration across different teams, suppliers, and retailers. Their complex data management structure further strained the successes of global projects and integration between various business functions. To enhance their tyre quality, the client sought real-time and historical data analysis for establishing KPIs, dashboards, and reports.
PLM
Teamcenter
Bosch PLM consulting
Digital Twin
As the demand for connected and smarter vehicles grows every day, building adaptive, sustainable, and high-performance tyres becomes a strategic imperative. With the varying and intricate needs of the modern customer – the ‘delight factor’ revolves around unique features such as exceptional cabin experiences coupled with enhanced tyre designs capable of handling higher torque, regenerative braking, improved rolling resistance, lower fuel consumption, and a quieter ride. To meet them, tyre manufacturers must prioritise faster cycle time, superior design, transparent processes, centralised data, and improved communication across teams and suppliers.
Teeming with identical goals of driving innovation, a large tyre manufacturer, however, grappled with siloed engineering and R&D data and processes. This led to lower supply chain visibility, inaccurate reports, and hindered informed decisions, as well as interactions with remote branches and suppliers. The client sought to maintain an edge through data analytics to set strong KPIs and create effective dashboards to improve decision-making. The firm also looked forward to accelerating the development cycle, minimising costs, and increasing scalability in order to increase competitive advantages.
Bosch SDS’s team of industrial experts gained a deep understanding of the client landscape and came up with a two-pronged approach embedding data and digital engineering. The first step was comprehensive business process consulting, and the second – reimagining the entire business model. Leveraging our seasoned process expertise, we recommended an end-to-end PLM transformation (aiming for maturity level 4), redefining their tyre production processes.
We drove the client’s modernization journey by creating a single repository, meeting compliance standards, and enhancing product quality with the following steps:
Through our well-designed consulting strategy and a smarter approach to digitalisation modernization, we enabled our client to elevate their tyre quality by adopting a data-driven, testing-based approach. The client was able to take complete charge of their data and processes, elevating their end-to-end product portfolio design and development—from inception to disposal.
Minimised the design cycle time by 15% from ideation to production, accelerating time to market by ~20%
Reimagined the NPD process for all product portfolios
Achieved end-to-end traceability for the complete set of products
Introduced a feedback loop for test lab data management
Reduced time, effort, errors, and costs
Improved service operations
Helped achieve higher quality products
Enabled higher business profitability
With our specialisation in bridging the gap between processes, tools, and people, Bosch SDS elevated the client’s data governance and operational capabilities. This led to enhanced tyre quality, increased flexibility, and agility at scale for impact-focused growth in their business.
