Bosch will publish applications from the Manufacturing Co-Intelligence® portfolio on the Databricks Marketplace. The first of these are Semantic Data Management and the Digital Product Passport (DPP), which manufacturers can use to provide regulatory documentation for their products. Both companies announced this on 4 November at the Databricks Data + AI World Tour in Munich.
Distributed data, growing requirements
For a product passport, companies have to bring together data from engineering, manufacturing, the supply chain and operations. That data is distributed across systems such as SAP, PLM and MES, in inconsistent formats and with different definitions. Regulatory requirements such as the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) often turn this into a time-consuming, manual integration project. More data does not automatically mean more value.
Manufacturing Co-Intelligence® is the Bosch portfolio that combines semantic data management with digital twins, agentic AI and software for manufacturing, so that people, machines and AI work on the same data. Semantic Data Management and the DPP are the first applications from the portfolio on the Databricks Marketplace. Using semantic models, Semantic Data Management establishes shared definitions, for example for a part, a process step or a quality event. The data remains with the companies. The DPP builds on this. It follows the concept of the Bosch battery passport: each product receives a digital twin based on the Asset Administration Shell. Once described semantically, the same data can be used for the product passport and for further applications.
With the Data + AI Platform, Databricks provides the foundation for data and AI. Bosch delivers the semantic layer as well as domain applications and AI that carry the knowledge about products and manufacturing and that scale in operation. Because the description of the data follows open standards, the approach is also relevant for companies that do not yet use Databricks.
From the data foundation to AI applications
Further applications from the portfolio are to follow on the Marketplace, among them solutions with agentic AI. These require reliable, semantically described data, because AI can only support decisions dependably if it knows the meaning of the data. Semantic Data Management already provides that foundation.
"More data alone does not create value. What matters is that people, systems, and AI recognize the same meaning within it," says Norbert Jung, CEO Manufacturing Co-Intelligence. "With the Databricks Marketplace, we reach companies right where they work with their data. Semantic Data Management and the Digital Product Passport are our first step on the Marketplace, and further applications with AI will build on them."
"Bosch Manufacturing Co-Intelligence and Databricks are showing how manufacturers can get more value from their product and manufacturing data across the lifecycle, and why the combination of both technologies matters," says Dr. Daniel Holz, Vice President Central Europe at Databricks.
Semantic Data Management and the Digital Product Passport are available in a private preview on the Databricks Marketplace from 4 November. Selected companies are testing early versions with their own product data. Broader availability will follow by the end of the year.