Bosch, along with MTU Friedrichshafen, establishes Digital Acceleration Centre in Bengaluru

Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions (RBEI) has unveiled the first-of-its-kind Digital Acceleration Centre for MTU Friedrichshafen in Bengaluru. With the culmination of a longstanding partnership, this new initiative will greatly enhance MTU’s digital journey so that it can address the market with speed, agility and scalability.

The vision of MTU, a core unit of Rolls-Royce Power Systems is to create a human-centred approach to deliver the best possible user experience. In addition, to complement the digital journey, Bosch will also set up exclusive UX, and UI labs for MTU Digital Solutions.

Jürgen Winterholler, Vice President – Digital Solutions, MTU, says, “In our MTU digital journey Bosch is one of our most important strategic partners. Bosch is supporting us across our digital challenges – in IT, Internet of Things (IoT) and the development of applications. We have a great experience with our relationship.”

The centre’s activities are two-fold: explore and exploit. The explore mode will work on converting ideas to minimum viable product (MVP). The exploit mode will focus on scaling and industrialization of digital solutions. RBEI is working on the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) programs of MTU digital that include digital twins, connected engines, FOTA (flashing over the air) and other products on MTU’s signature digital platform.

Vijay Ratnaparkhe, President & Managing Director, Robert Bosch, comments, “MTU is a pioneer in digital transformation and our collaboration will strengthen our engagement in sensors, software and services.”

Kiran Sundara Raman, Vice President, maintains that as a strategy he is going to focus on collaboration, co-investment and co-innovation to ensure a successful partnership between the two digital leaders.