Academic Co-Creation

Take part in an innovation challenge at Mercedes-Benz.

Get the chance to work on an exciting question from the field of production at Mercedes-Benz and create innovative solutions.

What problem should be solved?	Mercedes-Benz Mentors
Many old electric trolleys are currently in use at the plant. Decisions are increasingly being made as to whether a new purchase or maintenance is necessary. For cost reasons, new concepts, e.g. “e-trolley to share”, are to be developed (incl. digitalization solution) In theory, a solution needs to be developed that can be implemented simply, quickly and cost-effectively within Mercedes at the plant Sindelfingen. A pool solution is also conceivable here.	Annica Hämmerle / Chiara Gänzle
	What innovative outcome is expected?
	Implementation concept incl. economic feasibility study Digitized pilot Identification of a project strategy required for implementation
	What skills do the students need?
	Programming skills Project management Understanding of profitability Process modeling / process understanding

What problem should be solved?	Mercedes-Benz Mentors
There is currently a high proportion of rejects and scrap generated at the plant Sindelfingen. This leads to high costs. The aim of the project is to drive forward the reduction of scrap costs. The scope of the project is to support the existing project team with creative, innovative, cost-effective and digitalized ideas based on the current situation.	Annica Hämmerle / Chiara Gänzle
	What innovative outcome is expected?
	Practical, concrete and implementable ideas based on the initial situation provided
	What skills do the students need?
	Optional: Programming skills Understanding of profitability Process modeling / process understanding

What problem should be solved?	Mercedes-Benz Mentors
Downtimes are detected in the production, based on manual cycle time boundaries The Cause of the Downtime is currently documented manually Machine, technology and robot messages, are currently not used for the documentation	Lyubka Rund
	What innovative outcome is expected?
	Additional Data Approach Classification using ML Text generation for documentation using Gen AI Front-end Implementation using Mendix
	What skills do the students need?
	PowerBI/Mendix PySpark/Python ML/GenAI

Challenge period: November 11th - December 8th, 2024
Starting with an onboarding day at Mercedes-Benz plant in Sindelfingen the week before
Work digitally on one challenge as part of a team of 3 students
Workload about 10-20 hours per week
Work remote from wherever you want
Regularly meetings with academic experts from the KIT and Mercedes-Benz experts for support while working on the challenges
On site Final Pitch Event at Mercedes-Benz with awarding by a jury
KIT-Buddies: Dr.-Ing. Matthes Elstermann (Institute for Information Management in Engineering), Etienne Hofmann (Institute for Material Handling and Logistics), Yannik Hermann (Institute of Production Science)
Apply until September 27, 2024
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Only for CBS College Program students
Students must be in Intake 2023 or earlier
Motivation Letter
Curriculum Vitae
Grade Sheet
CBS students participating in the College Program can have their participation in Academic Co-creation credited as usual in the Global Production Management major

Recognition for First, Second, and Third Place Achievements for the winning groups

For each member of winning groups:
Mercedes-Benz day adventure

Exclusive factory tour in Sindelfingen
Get together with top management of Mercedes-Benz Cars Production, Quality & Supply Chain Management
Driving experience @Hockenheimring
Mercedes-Benz museum guided tour
Merchandise package

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* First Name
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* Intake
* School	HECTOR School of Engineering & Management Carl Benz School of Engineering
* Preferred Topic (Challenge)	#1: Ideation of e-Wagen simplification @ plant Sindelfingen #2: Waste reduction @ plant Sindelfingen #3: Intelligent Downtime Documentation
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