Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH (BSH): Leadership Customer Unleashes the Greater Powers of Teamcenter 2007
Before the early adoption of Teamcenter 2007, Uwe Tontsch, Head of Product Development and Industrial Engineering Solutions at BSH, describes the situation at BSH, which may sound very familiar to you.
“Currently we are running Tecnomatix on the EM service suite and we have the Teamcenter islands, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Enterprise, of course, and interfaces in between them. So moving to the next generation Teamcenter platform, which is the unified platform, we can adapt the CAD and the Tecnomatix products ... and that environment from one vendor.”
The benefits to BSH of unified PLM are clear and compelling. Matthias Bronowski, Project Manager for Teamcenter Next Generation at BSH, explains, “There’s certainly the cost of ownership aspect that that we want to address with the project. But there’s also the usability that we believe will increase through having a unified platform and a unified environment with a single database and a single set of processes that will appeal to the users in particular.”
Beyond the benefits to users, there’s a great benefit to the IT organization, as well.
“On the IT side, there’s certainly a strong push toward adapting the total cost of ownership idea that allows us to obviously strongly reduce our cost by having an integrated platform and not having these individual silos that have a pretty good level of integration at this point,” adds Bronowski. “But all these interfaces, they’re home grown so obviously it’s very costly to maintain them. And that’s why we’re very much looking forward to Teamcenter and the next generation project and obviously the Teamcenter products that are being made visible to us through the leadership program.”
The early adoption of Teamcenter 2007 is changing the overall business model at BSH. Instead of focusing their IT investment on making technologies work, they can focus on the company’s business drivers to streamline processes, increase innovation and speed time-to-market.
Tontsch compares the old way to the tail wagging the dog: “Many IT let’s say driven departments or IT departments see it different, more or less like the Teamcenter, the data management, is the dog and the applications are more or less the tail of the dog. But it’s vice versa, because from a strategic point of view with the end user and the internal customers, of course, the process is the most important thing for the company to survive.”
For more details on BSH’s unified PLM strategy and Teamcenter 2007 deployment, visit the new Teamcenter web site for a case study and video.
