Discover the MPS company policy

Company policy

MPS develops and produces customised micro mechanicals solutions in challenging fields of applications such as medical, including orthopedics, watchmaking, automation, aerospace, science, optics and industrial. We owe our success to 80 years of experience in miniature bearing and ball screw technologies, high tech machining and assembly capabilities and long term partnership with our customers and suppliers. MPS Micro Precision Systems AG employs more than 500 dedicated and highly skilled peoples, in 3 sites whose layout perfectly matches our needs. The markets are divided into 4 entities: MPS Microsystems, MPS Watch, MPS Décolletage, MPS Precimed.

Our Mission

We design and produce miniature guiding systems of high precision for the most demanding industrial sectors. Our success is based on innovations in the technique of miniature bearings, on our high-precision manufacturing capabilities and our micro-mechanic assembly capacity.

We also benefit of the high competencies of the FAULHABER Group.

Our vision

We have grown steadily over the last 80 years, driven by the untiring ambition of packing ever more complex functions into highly compact systems and by incorporating the latest technologies as well as the FAULHABER Group unique know-how.

We have a great vision: to pursue miniaturization through constant innovation.

Our challenges:

Guarantee the specifications of our client’s high-tech products
Place human needs as our central priority by contributing to developments in the fields of medical and optical devices
Maintain our position of key supplier to the most prestigious watch making companies
Share our motivation and our capacity of innovation with our clients, suppliers and employees

Our policy

We set clear objectives that we shall meet through appropriate strategies.

We constantly adapt our methods and resources in order to achieve the highest quality levels.

We keep a permanent technology watch to maintain our production equipment at the cutting edge of technology.

We work closely together with universities; we regularly optimize our work processes by adopting the latest scientific developments.

Our quality assurance policy calls for rigid quality plans and strict control procedures. It is the guarantee that we only supply products and services of the highest quality.

We are firmly committed to adopt an impeccable behaviour in all ethical, social and legal matters.

Our values and our commitment

Towards our clients

We make every possible effort to fully satisfy our clients’ expectations regarding the ever increasing requirements of their products, by maintaining close contact with them and by responding quickly and professionally to their needs
We accompany our clients’ developments from the initial conception to the final solution
The client’s success is OUR motivation

Towards our suppliers and partners

We are committed to establishing and maintaining tight partnership based on competence, transparency and reciprocal trust
We want to cooperate in a climate of mutual respect and esteem
It is our central priority to ensure a responsible attitude in all social and environmental matters

Towards our personnel

We place a high value on the human capital which is our company’s principal asset:

By developing the full potential of our workforce and by providing free space for new ideas and initiatives
By encouraging continuous training and personal development for every employee and for all teams, and giving them full support in the accomplishment of their mission
By maintaining efficient channels of communication providing clear, relevant information
By being attentive to their views, and this, at all hierarchic levels in the company
By favouring a working environment of secure jobs, making private and working lives compatible
By creating an agreeable working climate based on confidence, dialogue and mutual respect, in each department and at each hierarchic level
By providing adequate and attractive social benefits
By ensuring equality of men and women at the workplace

Towards our shareholders

We respect our shareholders and treat them with consideration
All our actions are directed to the long term company permanence and to its consistent growth
We are listening to our shareholders, and inform them timely, in a clear, open and transparent way, including our strategy for return on investment
We are committed to using coherent and reliable accounting methods which are compatible with those of our Group

Our environmental policy

The MPS management deploys the necessary resources to reach its environmental objectives and, in particular, is committed to:

Making rational, conscientious use of its industrial inputs, giving preference to renewable resources and minimizing waste at all levels within the company
Including environmental criteria in its purchasing policies and choice of subcontractors, and applying these criteria when purchasing new equipment or introducing new production processes
Analyzing its energy consumption by sector of activity, in order to determine the most significant savings directions and limiting emissions of volatile organic waste into the atmosphere, taking every possible action to prevent risk of environmental pollution
Setting a statutory watch procedure enabling the company to keep up with the applicable regulation, and to maintain close contact with the cantonal environment authorities
Verifying regularly the company’s environmental performance, setting new objectives based on results during management reviews, and making the personnel aware of the crucial importance of environmental issues