Robert Bosch GmbH, together with its subsidiaries, provides technology and services worldwide. It operates through Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology segments. The Mobility Solutions segment offers gasoline systems, diesel systems, chassis systems control products, electrical drives, starter motors and generators, car multimedia products, automotive electronics, and automotive aftermarket and steering products. The Industrial Technology segment provides drive, control, and actuator solutions for the factory automation, plant construction and engineering, mobile machinery, and commercial vehicles. This segment also offers process and packaging solutions for the pharmaceuticals, foodstuffs, and confectionery industries, as well as for the beverages industry. The Consumer Goods segment produces and distributes power tools, such as tools for the trade, industry, and DIY; and accessories and garden tools, as well as industrial tools and measuring equipment. It also offers household appliances for cooking, washing-up, washing, drying, cooling, freezing, floor care, etc. The Energy and Building Technology segment manufactures heaters, heat pumps, solar thermal systems, solid-fuel boilers, cogeneration plants, and industrial boilers. It also offers security systems comprising video-surveillance, intrusion-detection, fire-detection, and voice alarm systems; and access-control, and building management systems, as well as professional audio and conference systems. The company has a strategic partnership with Software AG for the Internet of Things Cloud. The company was formerly known as Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering and changed its name to Robert Bosch GmbH in 1937. Robert Bosch GmbH was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Robert Bosch GmbH is a subsidiary of Robert Bosch Stiftung Gmbh.