SUCCESS STORY
Bosch Rexroth: Highest Product Quality with i-flow
Customer
Bosch Rexroth is a leading global specialist in drive and control technologies. With over 200 years of industrial experience and 47 plants worldwide, the company combines global application experience in the market segments of factory automation, mobile applications and machinery.
Challenge: Manual Processes in Product Testing
Manual monitoring and documentation processes for distributed product testing on numerous test benches led to errors, untraceable actions and costly downtime. In addition to a lack of OT/IT connectivity, the integration of the heterogeneous test benches into existing IT and analysis systems was challenging.
Solution: IT/OT Integration for Process Automation
Bosch Rexroth recognized the urgent need to connect test facilities more efficiently in order to make informed decisions. A successful test of i-flow’s Industrial Unified Namespace (UNS) enabled the test benches to be integrated into existing IT systems in a short space of time.
i-flow ensures the seamless connection, harmonization and integration of product and quality data in Outsystems, which enables comprehensive data analysis and visualization. The implementation of i-flow provided Bosch Rexroth with the necessary flexibility to adapt to dynamic test environments and changing product requirements.
“i-flow’s data hub allows anyone to work with factory data while ensuring control over access to critical resources.”
– Christian Kircher (Director Engineering Excellence)
Benefits: Reduction in Downtime
The introduction of i-flow has enabled Bosch Rexroth to reduce downtime while increasing process efficiencies and product quality. The seamless connection and integration of test equipment provides valuable insights and new knowledge for data-driven product improvements, enabling Bosch Rexroth to respond quickly and effectively to market changes. The advantages at a glance:
- Error prevention: Lower error rate through precise data analysis.
- Increased efficiency: Reduced downtime during tests.
- Quality improvement: Improved product quality through i-flow.
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What does Bosch Rexroth do?
- leading specialist for drive and control technology
- 7.6 billion euros revenue
Challenge
- errors caused by manual processes
- costly downtimes
Solution
- IT/OT integration with i-flow
- data harmonization for consistent data
Benefits
- increased efficiency
- reduction of downtimes
"The i-flow team is proud of the excellent results achieved in collaboration with Bosch Rexroth. This cooperation demonstrates the comprehensive potential of technical data integration for process optimization and value enhancement in the manufacturing industry."
Daniel Goldeband (Director, i-flow GmbH)
400 millionen productive
data operations per day
All that matters to us is the reliable processing of data in critical production environments. 400 million daily data operations not only demonstrate the scalability and robustness of the i-flow software but also the trust that companies place in our solution.
Whether it’s PLC, sensor, or ERP data, i-flow forms the basis for a modern shop floor architecture in manufacturing companies.
