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Connected Manufacturing

Quotes Bosch Management

Katharina Hogh-Binder

Katharina Hogh-Binder

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Dr. Stefan Hartung, Member of the Board of Management Robert Bosch GmbH

  • “The three pillars of success in the factory of the future are people, machines, and data.”
  • “We are getting closer and closer to achieving our aim of exploiting Industry 4.0 to increase overall sales by more than a billion euros by 2020.”
  • “Industry 4.0 improves business processes and delivers higher productivity. That means we’re creating jobs, too.“
  • “In the Industry 4.0 era, people are as indispensable as ever.”

Rolf Najork, Chairman of the Executive Board of Bosch Rexroth AG:

  • „In the factory of the future the only fixed elements are the floor, the walls and the roof. Everything else is flexible and movable.“
  • “We have to think far more radically. Manufacturing companies need to become even more flexible and faster. Our concept for the factory of the future envisages machinery that keeps on reconfiguring itself flexibly to match the order situation.”
  • “Bosch Rexroth’s development shows that we’re on the right track with our strategic realignment and expansion of our activities in the field of Industry 4.0.”

Dr. Stefan Aßmann, Head of Bosch Connected Industry:

  • “The factory of the future will get its intelligence from software – and from the brains of its workforce.”
  • “Specialists in manufacturing, logistics, and software have worked together to create solutions that both simplify workers’ daily routines and make manufacturing and logistics more efficient, flexible, and eco-friendly.”

About Bosch

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 429,000 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2023). The company generated sales of 91.6 billion euros in 2023. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. With its business activities, the company aims to use technology to help shape universal trends such as automation, electrification, digitalization, connectivity, and an orientation to sustainability. In this context, Bosch’s broad diversification across regions and industries strengthens its innovativeness and robustness. Bosch uses its proven expertise in sensor technology, software, and services to offer customers cross-domain solutions from a single source. It also applies its expertise in connectivity and artificial intelligence in order to develop and manufacture user-friendly, sustainable products. With technology that is “Invented for life,” Bosch wants to help improve quality of life and conserve natural resources. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 470 subsidiary and regional companies in over 60 countries. Including sales and service partners, Bosch’s global manufacturing, engineering, and sales network covers nearly every country in the world. Bosch’s innovative strength is key to the company’s further development. At 136 locations across the globe, Bosch employs some 90,000 associates in research and development, of which nearly 48,000 are software engineers.

The company was set up in Stuttgart in 1886 by Robert Bosch (1861–1942) as “Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering.” The special ownership structure of Robert Bosch GmbH guarantees the entrepreneurial freedom of the Bosch Group, making it possible for the company to plan over the long term and to undertake significant upfront investments in the safeguarding of its future. Ninety-four percent of the share capital of Robert Bosch GmbH is held by Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, a charitable foundation. The remaining shares are held by Robert Bosch GmbH and by a corporation owned by the Bosch family. The majority of voting rights are held by Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG. It is entrusted with the task of safeguarding the company’s long-term existence and in particular its financial independence – in line with the mission handed down in the will of the company’s founder, Robert Bosch.

Additional information is available online at www.bosch.com, www.iot.bosch.com, www.bosch-press.com.

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