During the first period of the project, Mimbly’s work revolved around the preparation, installation and running of a pilot campaign at several customers in Sweden.
Pilot sites were selected from our motivated customers, based on criteria such as the geographical location of the pilot site, the activity of the customer, the overall occupation rate of the laundry room, etc.
In parallel, work was performed to engineer and design the pilot units that would be tested during the campaign. Efforts were spent on hardware (design and production of the filtration unit, casing, embedded electronics, sourcing, assembly, etc) and on software (refactoring of the embedded software, design and development of an MVP for the IT infrastructure).
6 Mimbox units were produced, 5 were installed at customers and ran in a pilot setup for up to 6 months (1 was kept for continuous improvement efforts).
During the second period of the project, Mimblys work revolved mostly around finalising development and commercialisation of the Mimbox and related activities to that. That includes setting up production, supply chains and operational scaleup.
A lot of effort has been put into setting up a formal partnership with our production facility and creating a production line that works with the mounting of mimboxes. 5 commercial units were produced to validate the production and service as demonstrator units.
On the commercial side, there have been deepened relationships with customers after analysing the feedback from pilots, from both a commercial and R&D perspective and then tuning the business plan accordingly.
The Mimboard has been further developed in order to keep track of the performance of the coming installations of Mimboxes as well as a communications tool towards stakeholders.
