[DSC Europe 22] Fostering the new data culture at Bosch Power Tools - Christopher Wiess

Fostering the new Data Culture
at Bosch Power Tools
Keynote at the Data Science Conference
by Chris Wiess, Director for „Big Data & Insights“ at Bosch Power Tools, Germany
Nov 17, 2022

The BOSCH GROUP
We want our products and solutions to
spark enthusiasm, enhance the quality
of people’s lives, and help conserve
natural resources.
In short, we aim to create technology
Invented for life

Intern | PT/BDO-BD | 22.10.2022
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Fostering the new Data Culture at Bosch Power Tools
The Bosch Group in figures
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In 2021
subsidiaries and regional
companies in more than
60 countries
3.2
billion euros EBIT
from operations
Bosch associates
worldwide at year-end
(approx.)
billion euros
sales revenue
78.7 403,000 440

The Bosch Business Sectors
4
Mobility Solutions Industrial Technology Consumer Goods
Energy and Building
Technology

Bosch Power Tools
is one of the world’s leading providers for
power tools, garden tools, power tool
accessories and measuring tools.

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In 2021
Bosch Power Tools in figures
5.8 +16 % 21,000
billion euros
sales revenue
associates
(approx.)
sales growth **
** sales growth adjusted for currency effects, nominal 14 %

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Empowering our users to build a better life.
PRO DIY

do we need to
foster the new data culture
at Bosch Power Tools?
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Why

On the way to becoming a leading AIoT company
2017
All our products
include AI or it has
played a key role in
their development or
manufacturing
process.
2025
First Bosch Power Tool
(Hair Trimmer ☺)
1928
First AIoT Bosch
Power Tool (Indego
Autonomous Lawn
Mower)

AIoT as the new value creation paradigm.
From a leading
Engineering & Manufacturing Company
with traditional value creation
Product/
service
Value
creation
To a leading
AIoT Company
with a new value-creation paradigm
Value
creation
Product/
service
Data
AI
sales data
market research
e.g.
User
Data
Flow
Enriching our strengths in the physical
world with IoT and AI as key enablers for
the virtual world. This closes the loop and
accelerates!

Millions of data messages in our manufacturing plants every day
500 Mio.
Bosch Plants
550 Mio.
Twitter

Millions of connectable tools sold with related new digital offerings.

Shift to online & direct sales opens new data potential.
From offline stationary sales through
multiples and traditional trade...
...to online sales with hybrid & pure players in B2B
and own online shops in B2C

have we already
fostered the new data culture
at Bosch Power Tools?
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How

PT/BDO: Organization follows strategy.
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Organization follows strategy: Big Data Team „go-live“ in 2018

Our Foundation – the cloud-based PT Data Hub.
Data Hub
(MVP) Data Hub
No-code
ML capabilties
Self-service
Analytics
Data Governance
Data & Solutions Catalog
Yesterday (2020) Today (2022) Tomorrow (2024)
Product Vision
Making data and analytics infrastructure easily accessible and usable
for Data Analysts and Data Scientists across PT.

AI use cases – supporting strategic targets along the value chain.
Prioritized Backlog In Proof of Concept phase In Deployment
Product
Development &
Supply Chain
Targets: Operational
efficiency, Supply Chain
Flexibility
Marketing &
Sales
Targets: Online & direct
sales, marketing / sales
efficiency
Tool
Experience
Target: Innovation
Demand
Forecasting
Augmented
Promotion Mgmt &
Recommendations
ML-enabled EOL
Testing
NLP to listen to the
„Voice of our
consumers“
AI solutions to make
sales on Amazon
more efficient
B2B-Product
Recommendations
Wallscanner
D-Tect 200
Partner: CR, ITK
Go-Live: 2023
2D Scanner
Partner: CR, ITK
Go-Live: 2023
Obstacle Detection &
smart navigation for
autonomous lawn
mower
Tool Health
Condition & usage
recommendations
(pilot: BI hammers)
Partner: SX
Go-Live: tbd
MeasureOn
XR
Partner: tbd
Go-Live: tbd
Sales
Forecasting
Manufacturing
Analytics with MAS
3D
Scanner
Partner: tbd
Go-Live: tbd
360°
Camera
Partner: tbd
Go-Live: tbd
Confidential

How we speed up and learn.
Cutting Edge Technology Excellent Partners

Democratizing data analytics internally.
Data Ambassador Program
entry-level into understanding data
- Program established in 2020, > 200 certified Ambassadors
- Understand basics of AI & ML and Power BI
- Translate between your domain & data experts
- Identifying and driving analytics use cases in domains
Data Analyst Program
experienced data analytics
- Program in development, to be kicked-off ~Q3 2022
- Understand data extraction with SQL & data modelling
- Build efficient reports based on the Data Hub
- Implement data-driven use cases in domains

Some examples to give you a better
impression of what we do ☺
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Demand Forecasting in uncertain times critical as never before.
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Demand throughout the years
Our international distribution center in Worms / Germany

Noise Inspection Unit: An acoustic-based ML-enabled EOL test
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From an error prone,
tedious manual inspection…
…to an accurate, fast
ML-enabled solution ensuring
better products.
Pilot plant: Mexicali

Augmented power tool and accessory selection.
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300k user reviews crawled and analyzed in 2021.
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Crawl eShops &
train NLP model
Google
Bert ☺

Obstacle detection for our autonomous lawn mower Indego
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Lessons Learned
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Using some soccer images ☺

Lessons learned
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Lessons learned
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Data Scientist

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Thanks a lot for your interest.
Time for questions and feedback ☺

[DSC Europe 22] Fostering the new data culture at Bosch Power Tools - Christopher Wiess

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