{"id":2074,"date":"2009-10-27T17:53:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T00:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/PLM-Connection-BSH-Global-Engineering-Collaboration-amp-Supplier\/ba-p\/334144"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:15:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:15:36","slug":"plm-connection-bsh-global-engineering-collaboration-supplier-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/plm-connection-bsh-global-engineering-collaboration-supplier-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"PLM Connection: BSH &#8211; Global Engineering Collaboration &#038; Supplier Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><\/P><P>At recent the PLM Connection in Europe I attended an excellent presentation and demonstration by Andrea Nagler from BSH (Bosch und Siemens Hausger\u00e4te GmbH) about their global engineering collaboration and supplier integration project.<\/P><BR \/><BR \/><P>BSH is in 13 countries and have 42 factories with 38,600 employees. <\/P><BR \/><BR \/><P>As they grew globally, their business challenges were long delays and effort required for communication between distributed development teams. This included increased partners and suppliers &#8211; each using different CAD formats which added cycle time to communicate and collaborate as well as ad-hoc alignment between internal teams. <\/P><BR \/><BR \/><P>Their motivation was simple &#8211; <BR \/><BR \/>&#8211; improve quality with better and consistent communication,<BR \/><BR \/>&#8211; improve cycle time due to faster access to information, speedy decisions, early start of tolling, fewer meetings<BR \/><BR \/>&#8211; reduce costs due to reduced travel,sample parts, tool changes, and export\/import procedures.<\/P><BR \/><BR \/><P>They have 900 Teamcenter high-end users, 1,500 low-end users, and 200 external partners.<\/P><BR \/><BR \/><P>She talked about how they plan to use the Teamcenter Community, Microsoft SharePoint-based, collaboration solution that is integrated with Teamcenter PLM for visual collaboration and supplier integration, using:<\/P><BR \/><BR \/><P>&#8211; Teamcenter Community as a web-based portal for internal teams and external partners and suppliers.<BR \/><BR \/>&#8211; Virtual project rooms for sharing and administration of projects<BR \/><BR \/>&#8211; Application sharing<BR \/><BR \/>&#8211; Visual conferencing based on JT.<\/P><BR \/><BR \/><P>Andrea then did a live demo of the collaboration project using Teamcenter Community and Teamcenter with her team in Berlin!!! That was quite amazing. Together they demoed a live visual conference collaborating on a spring design for a coffee maker. They showed power of visual collaboration, and visual issue management.<\/P><BR \/><BR \/><BR \/><BR \/><BR \/><BR \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At recent the PLM Connection in Europe I attended an excellent presentation and demonstration by Andrea Nagler from BSH (Bosch und Siemens Hausger\u00e4te GmbH) about their global engineering collaboratio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}