A Partnership That Has Evolved with the Challenges
For more than 20 years, TT PSC has supported the BMW Group in one of its most demanding production environments: the machining of powertrain components.
High production rates, extremely tight tolerances and extensive product variation define everyday operations. At the same time, every production line continuously generates large volumes of data – from machine and process signals to quality and measurement results, tool data and production events.
The challenge was clear: this information existed across multiple systems and, when viewed in isolation, provided limited value.
To make existing production and quality data available for analysis and operational decision-making, TT PSC worked closely with the relevant business teams to design and implement a production data platform. Since then, TT PSC has been responsible for its continuous development and production operation.
What started as targeted system integration has evolved into a central data hub used across multiple plants.
From Data Silos to a Foundation for Better Decisions
The value of the platform developed by TT PSC lies in intelligently connecting existing production data. While the BMW Group brings extensive manufacturing and process expertise, TT PSC provides the technical foundation needed to bring data from different sources into a consistent business context and make it usable for analysis and operational decision-making.
The platform brings together data from all relevant systems:
- Production data acquisition
- Machine and process data
- Quality and inspection data
- Tool management systems
To achieve this, TT PSC developed an integrated data model connecting components, machines, tools, process parameters and quality information, providing an end-to-end view of manufacturing operations.
Three TT PSC Architecture Principles Behind the Platform’s Success
Contextualise, don’t just collect
TT PSC connects production and quality data across the entire manufacturing process, creating a reliable foundation for meaningful analysis.
Navigate, don’t search
By linking relevant information sources within a common data model, TT PSC enables users to perform root-cause analysis without having to switch between multiple systems.
Integrate once, use many times
TT PSC’s platform architecture allows new applications and use cases to be built on top of an existing data foundation, avoiding the creation of additional data silos.
Tangible Value on the Shopfloor
The data platform developed by TT PSC has become the foundation for a wide range of applications created together with the relevant business teams to support production management, quality assurance and process optimisation.
TT PSC provides the digital foundation that enables existing manufacturing expertise to be applied and enhanced through data.
- Predictive Quality — identify quality deviations early and enable proactive intervention
- Process & Bottleneck Analysis — provide visibility into disruptions, bottlenecks and recurring patterns across production
- Tool Management — monitor traceability, tool life and forecasts
- Digital Inspection Management — support risk-based inspection strategies using real production data
- Shift Management — enable structured handovers and prevent information loss between shifts
- Paperless Component Management — digitally identify and route components requiring further attention
- Shopfloor Visualisation — provide a real-time overview of production lines, statuses and bottlenecks
- Production Analytics Portal — offer a central platform for KPIs, reporting and analysis
From Pilot to Enterprise-Wide Platform
Today, the solution is firmly embedded in everyday production operations:
- Deployed across multiple plants
- Integrated into multi-shift operations
- Embedded within existing IT and security environments
- Connected to central identity management systems
TT PSC manages the platform’s entire technical lifecycle — from architecture and development to rollout, operation, support and continuous improvement.
As a result, the BMW Group has a stable and scalable data foundation that can support both current and future digitalisation initiatives.
Continuous Evolution by Design
One of the key success factors is the scalable platform architecture created by TT PSC. It enables the BMW Group to address new business requirements and introduce new use cases quickly without having to rebuild existing integrations.
New use cases can now be implemented significantly faster because:
- Data is already integrated
- Core structures and relationships are already established
- Business teams can build directly on existing information
From TT PSC
The greatest value does not come from individual tools, but from a shared data foundation. Digitalisation becomes truly effective when business teams can answer their own questions without having to search for and combine data from multiple systems.
Why TT PSC
- More than 20 years of experience in digitalising production-related processes
- Proven expertise in integrating heterogeneous production, quality and process data
- Ability to effectively connect shopfloor requirements with enterprise IT architectures
- Development of scalable data platforms designed for live enterprise environments
- Long-term support covering everything from initial design and implementation to operation and continuous development
TT PSC’s strength lies in complementing existing manufacturing expertise with a reliable data foundation, intelligent data relationships and practical applications.
This creates the conditions for data-driven decision-making and continuous optimisation across the entire manufacturing environment.