Hittech Group at ZIE Zuid Holland Event 2025
On Thursday, 27 March, we will again be at the networking and knowledge-sharing event ZIE 2025 in Rotterdam. Our Technical Director and Board Member HiDelta Pieter Kappelhof, on the left in the photo from last year’s edition, emphasises the importance of sharing knowledge and regional cooperation. Pieter: “Developing technological innovations together plays an important role in strengthening chain cooperation and addressing…
Sandra Guns is the new Director of Development & NPI at Hittech Multin
Sandra Guns is the new Director of Development & NPI at Hittech Multin. ‘Our customers benefit from our knowledge of mechatronics development, DfX and new product introductions ’, Sandra says. Read more [Picture source: Hittech Multin on linkedin.com]
Alpheon meerderheidsaandeelhouder Hittech Group
De oprichters en aandeelhouders van Hittech Group hebben een meerderheid van de aandelen verkocht aan Alpheon. Deze investeringsmaatschappij moet de groep de financiële rugdekking geven om te investeren in verdere groei. Alpheon beheert zo’n € 3,5 miljard, afkomstig van een geselecteerd aantal institutionele beleggers en families. Het belegt momenteel in 21 bedrijven. Lees verder [Bron: made-in-europe.nu]
Hittech Multin will further develop Spectral Industries’s products and set up robust production
In this photo, the structural cooperation between Hittech Multin and SPECTRAL Industries started with a letter of intent. Frans Hoffmans (in the photo right), Managing Director of Hittech Multin, explains the details of the cooperation: “On 27 August, Hittech Multin and Spectral Industries signed a letter of intent underlining the two companies’ intention to work together…
Digital work instruction (DWI)
In many production processes, including assembly, people remain indispensable. With the highly skilled work being done in our companies, it is essential to have employees trained well and to share know-how. Digital work instruction (DWI) software is one tool that can be used to optimise this process. In a recent study, TNO digital interviewed eight companies…
This is a lens adjustment mechanism that uses piezo actuators
This technology allows for minute and exact lens adjustments over several degrees of freedom, enabling precise control over the lens’s position, orientation, and focal length. Read more [Picture source: Hittech Group on linkedin.com]
Outgoing inspection is an essential part of our mission to master improvement
This post explains why our colleague Robin van Eijk is taking photos of this high-tech machine. Robin is one of the 50 experts working in the Hittech Multin cleanroom. In this photo, he is checking a machine from a client in the semicon industry that has been sent back to us for inspection after years of…
Material science in the education of engineers and designers
Many designers lack sufficient material knowledge to thoroughly assess the impact of their application in high-tech equipment, says Pieter Kappelhof, our Director of Technology. So, we set up a course with innovative high-tech partners taught at the TU Delft | Mechanical Engineering. Cor Heijwegen, the founder of Hittech, is one of the initiators of this ‘course…
Fast and accurate order picking
With more than 1.000 unique items in stock, fast and accurate order picking is daily business for our colleague Nica Tirani at Hittech Multin B.V. The Kardex automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) helps her organise our inventory and maximise storage capacity. This system has approximately 85% of all items we need for assembly in stock.
Last week, our colleagues Tatjana Verdoold and Jörgen Petri gave an inspiring college at the Leidse instrumentmakers School (LIS). Together, they delved into the world of cleanrooms and showed how to set up a flawless production line. Two groups of students competed against each other by building mini semicon-machines out of LEGO in three rounds. Each…How can LEGO help students prepare themselves for a future in setting up production lines and working in a cleanroom?
