Customer Success Story: Bosch Manufacturing Solutions

Customer description

Bosch Manufacturing Solutions develops highly automated production and assembly systems.

The company builds manufacturing equipment both for internal Bosch production and for external customers in industries such as e-mobility, electronics, and energy infrastructure.

Projects often involve large, highly complex customer specifications that define the technical requirements for entire production lines.

Without BoWatt

Specifications in the automotive industry are enormous.

RFQ packages often consist of hundreds of documents and thousands of pages. At the same time, timelines are short — sometimes only a few weeks to submit a competitive bid.

Previously, the application engineering team evaluated these RFQs using a manual divide-and-conquer approach.

All documents were first listed in an Excel spreadsheet.

They were then assigned to individual engineers or departments who reviewed them in parallel.

Deviations and open points were collected in a central deviation list that was later consolidated before submitting the quotation.

While this approach enabled the team to work quickly, it had clear limitations:

• Hundreds of hours of work per project

• Limited ability to analyze every document in depth

• Knowledge from previous projects was difficult to reuse

• Collaboration across engineering teams remained fragmented

As specification packages continued to grow in size and complexity, Bosch Manufacturing Solutions needed a smarter approach that supported collaboration and reused knowledge from previous projects.

With BoWatt

Bosch Manufacturing Solutions now uses BoWatt’s AI-powered requirements management solution to evaluate RFQ specifications.

Instead of manually reviewing each document, teams can upload entire folders of requirement documents directly into BoWatt.

The system automatically extracts and pre-evaluates requirements based on:

• Bosch Manufacturing Solutions’ internal engineering standards

• Requirements and evaluations from previous projects

Because Bosch Manufacturing Solutions often works with the same customers, many requirements are reused across projects.

BoWatt’s AI automatically detects similar requirements from past projects and highlights deviations, allowing engineers to immediately focus on what has changed.

This results in 53% time savings on large projects.

The system also assigns requirements to engineering departments, creating clear ownership and improving collaboration during the evaluation phase.

This allows teams to focus their time on engineering decisions instead of manual document work.

Results achieved

After introducing BoWatt, Bosch Manufacturing Solutions significantly improved its RFQ evaluation process:

• 53% time savings on large specification projects

• Improved collaboration across engineering departments

• Reduced project risks through better requirement visibility

• Lower customer acquisition costs in technical sales

Quote

"The request-for-quotation process involves reviewing extensive requirement documents. It became increasingly difficult for us to meet customer deadlines and expectations. The BoWatt software not only accelerates our quotation process but also improves the quality and consistency of our internal review processes."

Outlook

Bosch Manufacturing Solutions operates across multiple locations worldwide.

After successful use within the German subsidiary, additional locations have started testing BoWatt, with the goal of a broader international rollout across Bosch Manufacturing Solutions’ engineering organizations.