An MCS veteran retires

After almost 33 years, we are saying goodbye to our E-Tech professional and workshop guru Andreas Schwientek as he retires.

Many MCS projects bear his signature and were successfully implemented thanks to his incredible talent for improvisation and his enormous expertise.

Here are just a few of the projects:

• Signing machine for steel plates (Kvaerner Werft),
• MCposi (in-house project),
• Force distance controller for CPM prestige press-fit machines,
• Fibre optic transmission lines for the BAM (a great adventure: here, fibre optics had to be protected by a spiral hose, fixed with a steel cable and then wound onto a drum … and all in the open air!)
• Also an automation system for testing flap nozzles (Pierburg),
• a roller burnishing system to apply chassis numbers to the carrier frames of vehicles (Flemming and Pehrsson),
• a locker control system for Deutsche Bahn and – most importantly –
• the control system for Harting presses, a project that has been very good business for MCS for many years.
• And last but not least: entire generations of vending machines for a wide variety of customers, the main business of MCS to this day, in which Andreas has brought the engineering skills of the MCS developers into an electrically functioning corset.

They always say “nobody is irreplaceable“, but Andreas Schwientek is an exception.

Goodbye, Andreas, we wish you a relaxing retirement and say THANK YOU once again!