Bosch is a huge company, and attitudes vary across divisions. I've been spending more time than I care about talking with their hydraulics division - Bosch/Rexr

Bosch is a huge company, and attitudes vary across divisions. I've been spending more time than I care about talking with their hydraulics division - Bosch/Rexroth, earlier known as Mannesmann/Rexroth. Their manic attention to detail is only surpassed by an almost fanatical devotion to documentation and standardization. They still make replacement parts for 30+ year old designs, and sounded almost apologetic when explaining to me (very patiently) that a critical component for an embedded device manufactured in Western Germany was no longer available, so I had to upgrade the control to the next generation (introduced way back in 2012 or so...). No sweat - the replacement device could be configured as a drop-in replacement. I wish more companies were like that.