Daimler Buses – EvoBus GmbH

Headquarters: Neu-Ulm, Germany

Daimler Buses is a pioneer in the entire automotive industry for industrial 3D printing. The company has been focusing on the potential of digital production technology since 2016. In the meantime, the OMNIplus service brand has designated around 40,000 bus/touring coach spare parts from the Mercedes-Benz and Setra brands as suitable for 3D printing. Initially, OMNIplus is concentrating on more than 7,000 parts that are to be digitized gradually. A kind of digital warehouse will be created in this way which is being expanded continuously. It includes both regularly required spare parts as well as rarely required parts for special customer requests. The virtual warehouse forms the basis for 3D printing license management, which shall further optimize the rapid availability of spare parts.