Wealth & Finance International - Business Awards 2016

www.wealthandfinance-intl.com 23 3D Printing Equipment Provider of the Year 2016 - Germany Multiphoton Optics GmbH is a leading supplier for high precision 3D printers, software, prototyping and engineering. We caught up with CEO and Managing Director Dr. Ruth Houbertz to learn more about the firm’s innovative product offering. Company: Multiphoton Optics GmbH Name: Dr. Ruth Houbertz Email: [email protected] Web Address: www.multiphoton.de Address: Friedrich-Bergius-Ring 15, 97074 Würzburg, Germany Telephone: +49-931-2999-5890 Multiphoton Optics support a range of industrial customers with everything from small volume prototyping capabilities for first product prototypes, ramp-up at customer’s site, through to long-term support of processes for novel products. The high-precision 3D printing processes provided by the company ideally fit into standard process environments used to manufacture products for many different markets, with the firm addressing a range of application including optical interconnects, micro- optics, and biomedical. In order to meet clients’ individual needs, Ruth believes that it is vital that the firm closely cooperates and communicates with them in order to gain the best insight into what they require. “Understanding of our customer’s requirements is one of the prerequisites to ensure that the overall outcome meets the expectations. This is facilitated by our broad expertise in many different areas, ranging from materials via processes to technology, hard- and software, and application. An open, trustful, and well-founded communication and exchange of information on a regular basis with the customer is very important to ensure that we achieve the optimum output for the customer’s project.” Within the 3D optics market there are many interesting developments which could influence the firm’s work on a technical level, acting as enabler. One industry which significantly impacts Multiphoton Optics’ developments is 3D printing in its original sense which already is accepted by customers, as Ruth emphasises. “When it comes to high precision 3D printing, our company has a quite different approach to adapting to its challenges in the industrial sector. We address the tasks completely differently which is the secret of our success. People tend to do always the same things for some reason, and that is what we avoid, particularly if very challenging tasks are on the plate. We find creative solutions even for the most demanding tasks, and are always looking to strike a new path.” “There are many ways to keep up with the ongoing, but particularly emerging developments which might impact our decisions and set the course for the company’s development, and staying at the forefront of these developments is crucial to our firm’s continued success. Being interested and informed about what is going on, also keeping a much broader view is very important to achieving this aim, and the most important factor is working with people with the right mind set. We are very lucky to have a workforce that supports the latest developments, and the manager as integral part of every team, providing the environment for free thinking and fulfilling the tasks and succeeding the challenges.” Moving forward, the firm aims to remain at the forefront of innovation in the industry, and has a number of exciting plans for the future. “Ultimately our expertise is based upon our background of more than two decades’ experience in materials, processes, technology, hardware and software which we can access in our daily work, particularly in the markets and applications we address. Looking ahead we will continue to draw upon this vast expertise, as well as seeking to embrace and expand our already substantial network of industry contacts as we seek to create the very latest technologies which meet the needs of our clients. Through our high precision 3D printer platform we will be part of a huge change in how products are manufactured.” BU160015