Digital Trainer with MAN Truck & Bus

As a leading commercial vehicle manufacturer, MAN Truck & Bus delivers its products worldwide. With a global network of more than 120 certified trainers, MAN ProfiDrive provides a range of professional and targeted training services for drivers, fleet managers and sales representatives, focused on reducing costs and improving cost-efficiency, safety, and sustainability. 

Currently, the training sessions are typically provided physically in local environments which requires time and costs associated with classroom training. Additionally, face-to-face training limits language options. To ensure a safe, efficient, coherent and engaging training environment and materials, MAN Truck & Bus is seeking novel technology solutions to create and provide training materials for its customers in a scalable manner. The ultimate goal is to build long-lasting customer relationships and strengthen professional brand awareness of MAN Truck & Bus products and services.

A key criterion for the solution is the ability to translate and offer the training in the local language of the driver in a digital format, such as videos. The training should provide accurate technical details of commercial vehicles and advise in the correct usage of assistant systems, such as adaptive tempomat and automatic cruise control. Additionally, it is preferred that the training adjusts to the driver’s skillset based on driving behavior data collected from the vehicle. 

Addressing this business need will enable the training of more customers with increasingly complex vehicles while enhancing driver professionalism. The stakeholders benefiting from a novel solution are not only the drivers but also the current trainers. Moreover, digitalizing the training enables continuous learning for drivers in a more dynamic and effective manner.

We are looking for startups with innovative and creative solutions. Solutions can, for example, combine novel technologies like automatic language translation, AI avatars, generative AI chatbots, as well as extended reality. We are eager to hear your creative approach of solving the need.

With 40 years of expertise, MAN ProfiDrive has significantly contributed to the all-round support for business owners, fleet managers, and drivers in over 67 countries worldwide. A partnership offers you the opportunity to contribute to a strategically important area for MAN Truck & Bus in the digitalization of their offerings and to drive this development further in the heavy-duty vehicle industry. Through the partnership, you will gain access to the expertise of the MAN Truck & Bus team, and in case of a successful pilot, there are opportunities to finding synergies with the broader sales and service network of the Traton Group. Different collaboration models can be discussed, but we are primarily interested in co-developing the solution to meet the needs of MAN with the strengths of the technology at hand.