11:20 – 11:40
Driving Innovation, Ensuring Domestic Competitiveness, Increasing Supply Chain Resilience
Innovation leadership is one way to exploit market opportunities. Bosch has used an existing technology from a neighboring field and advanced the technology to gain such a technological leadership.
To be successful in the current geopolitical environment this does not suffice, and additional measures are required to meet customer expectation.
One of them is to offer supply chain resilience by offering products out of different regions. This demands in consequence also a consistent management of supplier quality.
A complete management of innovation, technology and supply chain becomes increasingly important as supply chain risks increase.
Thorsten Scheer, Ph.D.
Bosch
Since September 2023, Thorsten Scheer is Plant Manager of the Bosch semiconductor fab in Roseville, California, Managing Director of Robert Bosch Semiconductor LLC, as well as Regional President North America in the Mobility Electronics division.
In this role he is integrating the Roseville site into Bosch’s international semiconductor manufacturing network while managing the conversion of the plant into a production facility for silicon carbide chips. Thorsten Scheer builds on his broad experience in various leadership positions for Bosch in Germany, Hungary, and the U.S., with a strong focus on post-merger integration and his ten years of expertise in sensor technology. Thorsten Scheer is a physicist and holds a PhD in economics.
Company Profile
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 428,000 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2023). According to preliminary figures, the company generated sales of 91.6 billion euros in 2023. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. As a leading IoT provider, Bosch offers innovative solutions for smart homes, Industry 4.0, and connected mobility. Bosch is pursuing a vision of mobility that is sustainable, safe, and exciting. It uses its expertise in sensor technology, software, and services, as well as its own IoT cloud, to offer its customers connected, cross-domain solutions from a single source. The Bosch Group’s strategic objective is to facilitate connected living with products and solutions that either contain artificial intelligence (AI) or have been developed or manufactured with its help. Bosch improves quality of life worldwide with products and services that are innovative and spark enthusiasm. In short, Bosch creates technology that is “Invented for life.” The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 470 subsidiary and regional companies in over 60 countries. Including sales and service partners, Bosch’s global manufacturing, engineering, and sales network covers nearly every country in the world. The basis for the company’s future growth is its innovative strength. At 136 locations across the globe, Bosch employs some 90,000 associates in research and development, of which roughly 48,000 are software engineers.
