For the seat of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, we are developing the most
sophisticated technical solutions.
We implement these in an excellent and great design
and use the most amazing materials for seat surfaces,
but also for the seat base.
With that we really create premium comfort and premium
solutions for the customer.
The new Mercedes-Benz S-Class seat was first created in our minds
and, of course, on the drawing board with our designers.
When we have the first designs and the first ideas
manifest in our minds, we create the very first prototype
and we actually build it in a completely manual process.
In other words, we develop the individual technical solutions.
We build the individual components that we need
for this and in a purely manual process in our
internal workshop, this very first prototype is created.
So we have over a hundred individual components
that flow into such a seat.
This is also the complex part for us, at such an early
stage, when we build the prototype, that we can really accommodate
all the components in the seat in such a way that
we can ensure the characteristics of the seat,
but can still protect the design, the comfort and also
the premium claim.
As soon as the prototype is ready, the extensive
testing begins.
These are functional tests, massage bubbles, or topics
such as seat heating or seat ventilation and cooling.
However, this also includes the issue of passive safety.
In other words, does the airbag work the way it is supposed
to and is the occupant protected by the seat as
they are supposed to?
So we carry out these seat comfort testings continuously,
because the seat is constantly being evolved.
From a hand-made prototype the seat becomes
a tool-trapping production seat.
Through the process, we test these comfort topics
cyclically and regularly with people and subjects.
It is very important that we not only get feedback
from the static single-seat test, but that the customer
drives with a vehicle and this ride-and-handling
test bench allows us to recreate driving situations,
to recreate different suggestions, different
road surfaces and also to test the comfort and feeling
of the subject in the seat under real driving conditions.
Perfection on the seat only arises if you don’t stop
optimising even the last small detail and therefore
many small optimisation ideas arise directly
at the test track, in the workshop.
We come back, open the seat, look at what
we already have, bring in an idea, screw the seat back
together, screw it into the car
and drive the next lap.
We are sure that our customers are thrilled
that we can continue this success story
“comfort systems” in the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, with 4D sound,
with massages with depth effect.
We want to show the customer that we don’t want to rest,
that we want to give them the best with the
new Mercedes-Benz S-Class, that they not only feel well in comfort,
but to be awed with the functions.