Ideation of e-Wagen simplification @ plant Sindelfingen
The Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant faces inefficiencies with its manual, decentralised E-wagon management, leading to uneven resource distribution. To address this, Mercedes and KIT academic co-creation have taken up the issue as an 1-month ideation challenge, with plans to implement a shared E-wagon pool for better resource allocation, improved tracking, and long-term cost savings.
Standard Use cases
Urgent Use cases
Based on the investigation of the operational team's and users' needs, we determined that the roundtrip station-based sharing mode is the most suitable option for the current situation.
User interviews reveal that technicians prefer not to book in advance, as most e-wagon-related tasks are short-notice and flexible. Additionally, designing a booking app would require the plant to provide phones for all users due to GDPR compliance, which would not be cost-effective.
Since this is a 1- month student project, unfortunately we do not have enough data to calculate.