BSH uses data to get faster from design to production

By becoming a Digital Enterprise, BSH Home Appliances Group can unlock the power of data and deliver high-quality home appliances to consumers around the world faster. Their secret is data consistency, from product design to manufacturing and product support, thanks to a central data backbone.

Bridging the gap between product and production

Managing brands like Bosch, Gaggenau und Neff across thousands of variants and five categories – while balancing sustainability regulations, rapid innovation, and global competition – creates complexity. BSH manages this complexity by becoming a Digital Enterprise. The company accomplishes this by digitalizing and integrating the entire product lifecycle management process, from product design and manufacturing to delivery. They use a digital tool chain and a single data backbone to transform complexity into speed, efficiency, and productivity by closing the gap between product development and production.

Unlock competitive advantage through the power of data

Faster time to market

BSH combines product development and production data in a comprehensive Digital Twin, uses AI-driven simulation software to simulate products and processes, and leverages one data backbone across the organization to gain speed.

Higher engineering productivity

BSH has integrated mechanical, electrical, automation and software engineering domains with manufacturing engineering. All engineers work simultaneously with the same data structures to increase speed.

Seamless data flow

With Teamcenter as the single data backbone, BSH seamlessly connects product development and manufacturing through the power of data. This new level of data consistency gives each department direct access to all relevant data.

Faster delivery of quality products to consumers

BSH uses data to get faster from design to production

Driving efficiency through consistent data

In order to deliver high-quality products to consumers faster, BSH needs consistent data from product definition and development to manufacturing and product support. A central digital data backbone – our Teamcenter software – provides the rock-solid foundation. This system stores all data, from requirements management to manufacturing engineering. The MES system and the ERP solution are both connected to Teamcenter. With the single data backbone, manufacturing has all the info it needs from product development to designing a new assembly line for a new product, all within the same software environment.

Building flexible production for new product variants

In addition to Teamcenter, BSH uses a broad range of solutions from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio. Manufacturing engineers and production planners use the data to simulate and optimize production processes, allowing the factories to quickly adapt to new product variants and changing market demands. This software-defined production uses intelligence to drive the lines and integrates shop floor data to continuously improve production planning and plant capacity utilization. This enables BSH to optimize productivity worldwide.

Software-defined production plays a central role at BSH.

BSG benefits from its long-standing partnership with Siemens and the Xcelerator portfolio.

A collaborative journey in industrial innovation

We have been a strategic partner of BSH since the company started its digital transformation over a decade ago. As our long-term partner, BSH adopted our integration strategy and gradually merged the product and production lifecycles with a fully digital tool chain. The two companies have collaborated to improve existing solutions, with BSH benefiting from the latest additions to the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio and us benefiting from real-world feedback and suggestions for its solutions from a global leader in home appliances. The journey doesn’t end there. BSH is evaluating additional Industrial AI, edge and cloud computing solutions from us, and they’re setting the stage by further standardizing and harmonizing their data and data structures.

Product development and manufacturing work with the same data. There is no interface in between, no data fragmentation. This allows us to perform real simultaneous engineering and gain speed.

Frank Helmke, Head of Product Lifecycle Management, BSH

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