Bosch Engineering and EDAG Engineering have signed a declaration of intent on project-related cooperation in overall vehicle development. The agreement reached stipulates that the companies will offer their skills together on the market in the future in order to best complement the existing know-how. Customers receive complete vehicle development tailored to their needs from a single source, without having to worry about coordinating the individual development areas.
Bosch Engineering and EDAG have extensive experience in implementing complete vehicle projects. “Increasingly strict environmental and sustainability requirements and trends such as the software-defined vehicle lead to increasing complexity in vehicle development. By using our mutual synergies, we and our customers will be able to bring new vehicles onto the road even faster and more cost-effectively in the future,” says Dr. Johannes-Jörg Rüger, Managing Director Bosch Engineering. Cosimo De Carlo, CEO of the EDAG Group, explains: “The shared competencies of EDAG and Bosch Engineering will act as an accelerator for technological innovation.”
Both companies offer a wide range of services related to electronic systems, for example regarding E/E networks, hardware and software architectures, feature development and component specification, as well as derivative development, system integration, test execution and production planning. The development expertise of both companies includes the entire spectrum of design and engineering services from preliminary development to the delivery of complete vehicles and production systems.
This includes, among other things, styling, virtual modeling, electronics and software development, prototyping, hardware testing, and the provision of technical services and production techniques. Validated simulation processes, the digital twin of product and production as well as comprehensive know-how in the direction of smart factories ensure high quality, safety, agility and flexibility in the development and production process.
The declaration of intent by both companies is based on many years of trusting cooperation, on the basis of which joint projects in complete vehicle development for automobile manufacturers have already been successfully implemented in the past. This cooperation will be further intensified with the agreement. The content and degree of cooperation between Bosch Engineering and EDAG are always based on the individual specifications and wishes of the customers. “With sustainable strategies, state-of-the-art processes and methods, we are working together to create the optimal environment to handle the complexity of tasks in overall vehicle development and the implementation of the smart factory and to enable a successful market launch,” says Cosimo De Carlo and Dr. Johannes-Jörg Rüger.
