The client faced increased competition due to rising consumer demands for connectivity, energy efficiency, and value-added features such as human-like interactions with appliances. Insufficient product data and a lack of unified visibility also affected overall product quality and time-to-market.
Windchill PLM
ThingWorx
SAP-Windchill integration
Bosch PLM consulting
Today’s electronics manufacturers often grapple with rising consumer demand for more humanized appliances and better total cost of ownership. Consequently, they’re under immense pressure to roll out smarter connected products for market differentiation. There is a need for a centralized product development ecosystem – bringing data, processes, and people together to create intelligent products that offer quality, exclusivity, and an enhanced experience to meet evolving customer needs.
Amid similar challenges, a multinational consumer electronics major was grappling with reduced demand in the market. While insufficient and inaccurate product data led to a lack of unified visibility, the client also struggled with low product quality and delayed time to market. This meant missed revenue opportunities, loss of market share, low profitability, and a struggle to match pace with other dominating competitor brands. As a result, they looked forward to digitizing their enterprise architecture, infrastructure, legacy systems, R&D, and business processes to stay relevant in this competitive era of continuous innovation.
With demonstrated industry-specific expertise and a consultation-led approach, Bosch SDS identified the client’s pivotal point of transformation – their product development lifecycle.
We tailored the perfect solution architecture by deploying an enterprise digital thread to implement a single source of truth along with the following measures:
We proposed new service-oriented, revenue-boosting process models that could drive end-to-end intelligent product management across design, development, and rollout stages. By embedding a data-driven approach from the boardroom to the shop floor, we enabled the client to bolster organization-wide agility and resilience.
30% improved time-to-market
40% faster lead time across NPD projects
20% elevated R&D efficiency
Ensured shop floor collaboration and vendor collaboration
Windchill-defined 6-stage NPD processes for efficient project tracking
Harnessed multi-CAD and SAP-Windchill integration
Centralized change management with Windchill
Enhanced predictive asset management and maintenance
Elevated OEE at reduced costs
Seamless integrations, product and process modifications
Improved engineering-driven BOM management
Smarter traceability and higher compliance
Bosch SDS identified the client’s need for a modernized data-first enterprise architecture. We helped the client harness the right mix of technologies with our unmatched industrial expertise from being a global industrial pioneer to help deploy smarter solutions at scale to generate the desired value-driven outcomes. Our partnership resulted in a smarter integrated approach to product development that boosted the client’s competitive advantage in realizing innovation, improving user understanding, and optimizing resources.
