Microtechnique Swiss SA: Excellence in the Finest Details, Jointly Laying the Foundation for Precision

In Switzerland’s Jura region in the 1970s, it was not only a palace of watchmaking art but also an incubator for countless precision dreams. At that time, a young company named Microtechnique Swiss SA had just been founded, with its founding team harboring the ambition to apply micron-level precision technology to broader industrial fields. However, the path for startups was fraught with thorns — their biggest challenge was not the technology itself, but how to transform the perfect laboratory designs into stable, reproducible industrialized production.

Back then, Microtechnique received an order to produce core miniature bearings for an important client — an emerging medical device company. These products had nearly harsh requirements for material purity and processing precision. During the trial production phase, while manually adjusted samples were flawless, the product qualification rate plummeted once mass production was attempted. Consistency, an insurmountable mountain between creativity and the market, put immense pressure on the young Microtechnique team. What they needed was not just a piece of equipment, but an industrial methodology that could understand their pursuit of precision and solidify it into standard processes.

It was at this delicate growth stage that HMS met Microtechnique. Instead of rushing to promote mature solutions, we dispatched an engineering team to their somewhat simple workshop to jointly observe and analyze every subtle fluctuation in the production process. We understood that for a startup that valued its technical expertise, true support lies in empowerment, not replacement. The core of HMS’s solution was introducing modular production and process control concepts, laying the foundation for precision stability while preserving technical flexibility.

This cooperation successfully helped Microtechnique deliver the order on schedule and gain initial market trust. But its deeper significance was that HMS and Microtechnique jointly explored and validated a feasible path to industrialize cutting-edge microtechnology.

HMS’s Insight: Great precision enterprises often start from a tiny origin.

A true partner can perceive the enormous value hidden in the details at a startup’s early stage, and with respect, lay the most solid foundation for its future large-scale growth.

Is your technology facing the challenge of moving from the laboratory to the market? We look forward to partnering with you to build something extraordinary from the very beginning.