By far the most prestigious customer of our company is Bosch Group. Earlier this year, Robert Bosch Automotive and IBM announced the launch of a partnership to create a software platform with data for the more efficient development of intelligent automotive products.

Current vehicles are more interconnected than ever, containing up to 100 computerized controllers and 10 million software code lines. As vehicle complexity continues to grow, car manufacturers have to cope with pressures to reduce costs and innovate quickly, while tackling the pressing issue of vehicle quality assurance.

“Our goal is to increase our agility, accelerate the pace of innovation and deliver new products. By implementing this platform for creating systems and software, we can improve our integration and development, setting higher standards of quality and safety for our company and industry, “said Dirk Hoheisel, board member of Bosch Group.

“Built on IBM’s standards and design tools, the new software platform can quickly expand to thousands of partners, customers, engineers and technicians. Involving all people in the supply chain with automotive components and systems and gaining relevant data from them, the platform will become the cornerstone of Bosch’s vision of industry collaboration for faster, more intelligent and safer vehicle delivery. Driven by industry innovation electronic systems technology, the automotive sector is under great pressure to evolve. ”

“Strategic reuse and the ability to acquire engineering knowledge are the core components of IBM’s” continuous engineering “concept,” said Kristof Kloeckner, general manager of IBM Rational Software. The Bosch Technology Platform is based on the principles of continuous engineering and is built with IBM’s technology for software and system development.

“IBM’s solution was selected due to its expanding capability and the ability to be adopted by many sectors and organizations within the company. Thanks to this advantage, Bosch can implement the long-term initiative to create a platform based on safety and development standards to ensure efficiency from the start and finish of processes, as well as for the strategic re-use of engineering artifacts.

“Through automation and process consulting, our development and design tools allow our automotive customers, such as Robert Bosch GmbH, to facilitate product creation and eliminate obstacles during implementation, making them more competitive and dynamic, focusing “It’s on innovation,” concluded Mr. Kristof Kloeckner.