The Bosch Group at a glance

The Mobility Solutions business sector pursues a vision of mobility that is safe, sustainable, and exciting, and combines the group’s expertise in the domains of personalization, automation, electrification, and connectivity. In strategic terms, the business sector is focusing on its role as a supplier of automotive components and subsystems as well as on the mobility lifecycle business involving operators of vehicle fleets and mobility platforms. As a supplier of automotive technology, the business sector offers its customers integrated mobility solutions in the following main areas of business: injection technology and powertrain peripherals for internal-combustion engines, diverse solutions for powertrain electrification, vehicle safety systems, driver-assistance and automated functions, technology for user-friendly infotainment as well as vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, repair-shop concepts, and technology and services for the automotive aftermarket. The mobility lifecycle business involves additional products and services for fleet operators, such as regular data acquisition, over-the-air software updates, and smart battery-charging systems. Effective January 1, 2020, the former business unit Bosch eBike Systems was set up as a division in its own right within the Mobility Solutions business sector. The business sector also includes activities involving two-wheelers, commercial and off-highway vehicles, and engineering services.

This business sector includes the Drive and Control Technology division, which specializes in drive and control technologies for efficient, powerful, and safe movement in machines and systems of any type and size. The division combines global application experience in the market segments of mobile applications, plant construction and engineering, and factory automation. With intelligent components, customized system solutions, and services, Drive and Control Technology creates the necessary environment for fully connected applications. The division offers its customers hydraulics, electric drives and controls, gear technology, and linear motion and assembly technology, including software and interfaces to the internet of things. Bosch’s in-house provider of assembly systems, Robert Bosch Manufacturing Solutions GmbH, develops flexible, scalable plans for assembly systems, customized solutions in the field of testing and process technology, and related services. Industrial Technology also includes the Bosch Connected Industry business unit. With a focus on Industry 4.0, it develops software solutions and carries out projects for internal and external customers.

Its Power Tools division is a supplier of power tools, power-tool accessories, and measuring technology. The division has an extensive product range aimed at professional users in trade and industry, the DIY market, and amateur crafters. The range includes power tools and garden tools. One of the division’s focal points is convenient, high-performance cordless tools, and increasingly also web-enabled tools and services. The key pillars of the Power Tools strategy are innovativeness, continuing digitalization, strong brands, and expansion of business in emerging markets. User-centered innovations are playing a major role in this. The Consumer Goods business sector also includes BSH Hausger?te GmbH, which offers a broad range of modern, energy-efficient, and increasingly connected household appliances. Its product portfolio that ranges from washing machines and tumble dryers through refrigerators and freezers, stoves, ovens, extractor hoods, and dishwashers, to small appliances such as vacuum cleaners, coffee makers, and food processors. BSH is actively shaping the paradigm shift from the analog to the connected world. In this, the subsidiary is opting for a customerfocused “Hardware+” strategy. Here, it is also increasingly offering digital and personalized services in addition to innovative household appliances. Its SystemMaster is a digital control unit that enables connectivity for all household appliances.

Its Building Technologies division has two areas of business: the global product business for security and communications solutions, and the regional system integration business. The latter offers solutions and customized services for building security, energy efficiency, and building automation in selected countries. Both units focus on commercial buildings and infrastructure projects. The product portfolio encompasses video-surveillance, intrusion-detection, fire-detection, and voice-alarm systems, as well as accesscontrol and professional audio and conference systems. The Thermotechnology division offers solutions for air conditioning, hot water, and decentralized energy management to customers worldwide. It provides heating systems and energy management for residential buildings, water heaters, and commercial and industrial heating and air-conditioning systems. With a view to functions such as remote diagnosis, web-enabled devices are becoming increasingly important, as is the division’s business with electric heat pumps. The Bosch Global Service Solutions division provides business processes and services, primarily for customers in the automotive, travel, and logistics industries and in information and communications technology. Robert Bosch Smart Home GmbH offers web-enabled, app-controlled products for the home.