“We can now maintain eight instead of four trains per night shift. Everyone on the team is working in lockstep,” says Sonja Askew, Head of Provisioning and Maintenance at the Cologne facility. The team works so flexibly that even damage on late-arriving trains can be repaired immediately. As soon as one ICE is finished, it clears the track for the next. Because space and time are so precious at Deutsche Bahn’s Cologne facility.