Industry 4.0 @ Bosch Rexroth with 3DEXCITE

In today's world, manufacturers of complex products and machines face immense challenges to meet very diverse requirements in ever shorter timeframes at competitive costs. These challenges have compelled manufacturers to reorganize their manufacturing processes and production lines to address these diverse client requirements.

The solution to these challenges has been successfully demonstrated at Bosch Rexroth (BR) by implementing an Industry 4.0 concept of the "Digital Twin" via 3DExperience Platform, also referred to as the ‘3DEXPERIENCE Twin’.

By creating a 3DExperience twin, BR can recreate the production lines in the digital world to detect physical issues sooner, predict outcomes more accurately, and build better products.

Highlights

“Single source of truth” for the engineering & product data

For the Bosch Rexroth project, all functions of the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform for virtual engineering access a common database, hence acting as a single source of truth for engineering and product data as well as for engineering changes. The 3DEXPERIENCE® platform can seamlessly source the CAD model as well as the product portfolio and transform them into a prepared model - further using them to create a digital 3DExperience twin of assembly processes and visual experiences.

With the creation of the experience, Dassault Systèmes and Bosch Rexroth have successfully demonstrated how time-to-market for complex production as well as marketing scenarios can be shortened with the greatest possible flexibility if production and product engineering seamlessly mesh on the data side.

From digital twin to digital marketing experience

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In addition to the virtual twin, which is used mainly for engineering, 3DEXCITE brought in its deep knowledge about photorealistic 3D visualization for marketing purposes - to turn the virtual representation of the product into a real, virtual marketing experience. The platform solutions of 3DEXCITE make it possible to view the assembly line in outstanding visual quality and in VR. This way, Bosch Rexroth and its customers quickly get an impression of the real product and how it behaves on the production line in real-time.

The key value of the 3DEXCITE roles on the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform is that the engineering data is sourced directly from the CAD/PLM system. The model data is not altered or changed but simplified to optimize the marketing storytelling. At every step, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform ensures “Digital Continuity” from product engineering to marketing experience with a single source of truth

The creation of the experience is made possible by the Industry Process Experience (IPE): “Product Experience Creation” designed for the Industrial Equipment industry.

Here is a glimpse of the BR’s Digital Marketing Experience in this short video:

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Stay tuned for the full '3DExperience Twin' video & more details on IPE “Product Experience Creation” in our next post on our Bosch Rexroth customer story.