Bosch: Stream­lin­ing Engi­neer­ing Doc­u­men­ta­tion for High-Vol­ume Production

Bosch, a lead­ing auto­mo­tive man­u­fac­tur­er, need­ed a mod­ern­ized process for han­dling tech­ni­cal pro­duc­tion draw­ings for their high-vol­ume alter­na­tor assem­bly lines. With mil­lions of units pro­duced annu­al­ly, the com­pa­ny required seam­less inte­gra­tion between scanned archives and CAD sys­tems to ensure fast retrieval and effi­cient mod­i­fi­ca­tion of engi­neer­ing documents.

Chal­lenge

Bosch’s alter­na­tor pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty relied on hand-drawn man­u­fac­tur­ing schemat­ics that were man­u­al­ly updat­ed, mak­ing revi­sion track­ing cum­ber­some. The draw­ings were scat­tered across var­i­ous loca­tions, lead­ing to delays, incon­sis­ten­cies, and inef­fi­cien­cies when engi­neers need­ed to mod­i­fy machine con­fig­u­ra­tions or improve pro­duc­tion workflows.

With­out a cen­tral­ized sys­tem, engi­neers strug­gled to quick­ly update, dis­trib­ute, and main­tain tech­ni­cal draw­ings, cre­at­ing poten­tial dis­rup­tions in man­u­fac­tur­ing optimization.

Solu­tion

Bosch imple­ment­ed GTXRaster­CAD®, which pro­vid­ed intel­li­gent raster edit­ing capa­bil­i­ties, allow­ing engi­neers to edit scanned draw­ings with the same ease as vec­tor data. Since GTX is ful­ly inte­grat­ed with Auto­CAD®, exist­ing work­flows remained unin­ter­rupt­ed, min­i­miz­ing train­ing time and max­i­miz­ing productivity.

GTX’s hybrid edit­ing tools allowed Bosch engi­neers to mod­i­fy pro­duc­tion schemat­ics with­out con­vert­ing raster data into vec­tor for­mat, reduc­ing unnec­es­sary pro­cess­ing time. Addi­tion­al­ly, all mod­i­fi­ca­tions were dig­i­tal­ly stored and acces­si­ble world­wide, ensur­ing that engi­neers across dif­fer­ent Bosch loca­tions could retrieve the lat­est files instantly.

Result

By using GTX, Bosch stream­lined the man­age­ment of alter­na­tor pro­duc­tion draw­ings, allow­ing glob­al access to updat­ed schemat­ics. Engi­neers could now mod­i­fy, store, and retrieve draw­ings effi­cient­ly, improv­ing work­flow speed and accu­ra­cy. The soft­ware also enhanced data secu­ri­ty, ensur­ing that only autho­rized users could access or revise pro­duc­tion blueprints.

“GTXRaster­CAD® allows us to make intel­li­gent edits to raster draw­ings as if they were vec­tor data. The inte­gra­tion between GTXRaster­CAD® and Auto­CAD is also very good.”
- Bosch Design Manager