Prof. Thomas Böhlke
Kim Scheller ( Mercedes-Benz AG)

Prof. Thomas Böhlke

Mercedes-Benz Group AG is one of the most successful automotive companies in the world. With Mercedes-Benz AG and the Mercedes-Benz Cars and Mercedes-Benz Vans divisions, the vehicle manufacturer is one of the largest and most successful suppliers of premium passenger cars.
Our ‘Industrial Engineering & Digital Process Design’ department is responsible for the digital transformation in assembly planning. The ‘Digital Safeguarding Assembly Capability’ team is responsible for the technological development of digital safeguarding methods and the further development of the virtual assembly station, including collaborative VR technologies.
Our team consists of 10 highly motivated and friendly colleagues who look forward to your support in the following area:
The wire harness simulation enables the assembly planner to evaluate the geometry and routing of wire harnesses that are not yet fully attached to the vehicle at an early stage - without the use of prototypes. This is particularly important in order to prevent possible collisions in subsequent assembly steps, and greatly simplified material data is currently used for wire harness simulation. The aim of this work is to evaluate how accurately these highly simplified material models can represent the real situation, in which points the material modelling should be more accurate and what the starting points for this are.