Company Profile
MI-Partners is a leading centre of expertise in the field of mechatronics, active in developing high end mechatronic products and systems.
Our ambition
MI-Partners wants to be rated as a top partner in mechatronic research and development by our customers.
We want to achieve this ambition through efficient organization, excellent people, developing our technical competences and expanding our knowhow by working together with partners. We work closely with our customers to achieve breakthrough innovations.
Our organization
We help our customers by offering our experience and expertise in mechatronic R&D. We do this in the form of a phased project approach for industry and scientific institutes. Our broad experience provides a fresh look and out-of-the-box ideas that, in turn, lead to prototypes or CE (or UL) certified systems.
Our focus lies with early involvement in research and pre-development, where we provide the complete trajectory up to design, realization and testing. In our laboratories we have all the required tools, test & measurement equipment needed for high end developments.
Our lean and effective organization allows us to act fast, flexibly and competitively to our customer’s needs. We do fair business; our offers and invoices are transparent, we stick to our agreements, deliver on time and communicate clearly.
Applying the high-tech mechatronic approach with a compact and highly educated team results in fast, innovative solutions...
Our people
Currently, we have a team of over 60 highly educated engineers. Our people are passionate about technological innovation and mechatronics development in particular. Their enthusiasm and customer focus comes from joy in their work.
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Our engineers have extensive experience in project-based working and obtained recognized results in the sector. We have close ties to the academic world providing us with the latest technological insights.
Our background
MI-Partners was founded in 2007 by former manager of Philips CFT Leo Sanders, entrepreneur Bart van den Broek, TU/e-professor Maarten Steinbuch and TUD-professor Jan van Eijk.
Under the care of our principal founder Leo Sanders, our company has grown to an established name in mechatronics. We now perform challenging projects for both industry and scientific intitutes, all over the world.
Our partners
Our long term customers see us as a partner rather than a supplier. Close cooperation on scientific and engineering level help our customers become more competitive. Our scientific customers in turn, profit from our extensive experience in developing high end semiconductor equipment. We have helped synchrotron institutes such as LNLS, Diamond Light Source, Argonne National Laboratory, ALBA, Berkeley Lab and SOLEIL bring their beamlines to the next level.
Specialist partners
Additionally, MI-Partners has a large network of partner companies with their own specializations and expertise. We cooperate with them to expand our own competences. Some of these partners are Simex for thermal and flow analysis, Mice for mechatronics consultancy, Magnetic Innovations for design of magnetic systems and actuators and GMT for passive damping.
Academic relations
Thanks to the support of our co-founders Prof. Dr. Ir. Maarten Steinbuch from Eindhoven University of Technology and Prof. Dr. Ir. Jan van Eijk from Delft University of Technology, MI-Partners has access to the latest technologies in the academic world. By constantly coaching several students (internship and graduate) we are able to stay close to academic research developments.
Markets and customers
This map gives an idea of where some of our customers are. We support SMEs, large OEM as well as scientific institutes. Aerospace, automotive, healthcare, semiconductor (incl. advanced packaging), photonics and automation are market examples. Our services include worldwide installation of equipment developed by MI-Partners.
Semiconductor
Analytical / Science
Synchrotrons
Automotive
Medical
Precision machining
Oil & gas
Handling (high-speed)
Aerospace