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Client Profile: The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 375,000 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2015). Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 440 subsidiaries and regional companies in some 60 countries. Including the sales and service partners, Bosch is represented in roughly 150 countries. This worldwide development, manufacturing, and sales network is the foundation for further growth.
Business Need: Bosch has a number of large machinery in some of its plants. If all the energy-intensive machinery in Bosch's Homburg plant ran at the same time, it could lead to very high electricity consumption at peak times. The resulting increase in electricity costs pushes up the cost of manufacturing. The company is working to optimize the production process and simultaneously save energy and reduce costs.
Solution Implementation: The solution is conceived as a holistic approach to production planning with a strong focus on energy in partnership with SAP of Germany, Dassault Systèmes of France, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) of India. Together, the team is working on optimizing the energy consumption of the plant. The solution will dynamically drive production schedules to maintain quality while reducing lead time and reducing energy costs to optimize the resource specifically for Bosch Rexroth Homburg.
The solution will enable interaction between the production lines, based on Industrie 4.0 platform and IIC Standard for energy management.
The Bosch IoT Suite involves continuous collection of energy data across all the machinery in the plant. TCS architects the solution to the production facilities via the Industrie 4.0 platform's RAMI4.0 architecture and orchestrates the solution by integrating all partnered systems at the shop floor. Dassault Systèmes provides a "digital twin" of the plant, which is a multidimensional representation of all the machinery and respective functions in the plant including the power consumption as well. SAP provides application services that record and analyze critical data in the Hana Platform in real time. Because the RAMI and IIRA standards are aligned with each other and software-based data exchange between the production lines and the energy management system is now possible, real-time energy management for the factory becomes a reality.
Value Proposition - Many manufacturing machines have high energy consumption. It is important to track total energy for those plants and energy for each machine in the full production process of each product. With this information plus real-time access to customer orders, the Extended Supply Chain and Manufacturing Execution, and advanced Production Planning algorithms can optimize the KPI's.
Benefits: The solution will help in effectively reducing the power consumption. The energy demand will be optimized and the peak loads will be reduced considerably, thus reducing the manufacturing costs and increasing competitiveness, without affecting the environment.
Keywords: Bosch, TCS, Industrie 4.0, Europe, IIoT, SAP, Dassault Systèmes, ARC Advisory Group