Headquarters (includes video): Divisions and Manufacturing Organization

The headquarters facilities are in Bentivoglio, about ten kilometres north of Bologna, Italy.

The headquarters consist of  three factories set side by side, plus several service buildings (a cafeteria and technological centres).
The total covered space measures 38 thousand square metres, surrounded by 30 thousand square metres of gardens and planting areas plus yards extending over 46 thousand square metres.

This is the location of the central research and development, design, production, marketing and education/training organizations.

The Marposs manufacturing organization has two major components:

• the Product Manufacturing Center which produces standard products;
• the Application Manufacturing Center, which produces customized systems to be integrated into customers' manufacturing facilities.

Both centers are equal in terms of volume and resource commitment.

Marposs operates with the most advanced equipment to assure the quality of its products. The components and precision masters used to calibrate and set up Marposs products are inspected in a comprehensively equipped SIT 84 certified Metrology Laboratory. Extreme condition environmental testing, dimensional controls and material verification are performed on finished components to insure the product quality.

The assembly of printed circuits is performed on a completely automated SMD line, integrated with opto-electronic systems which assure optimum levels of quality together with a high degree of operating flexibility. Testing is made with advanced technologies and machines: full circuit inspection using mobile inspection probes perform boundary scan-type tests, the only ones capable of performing high reliability tests on printed circuit boards with complex integrated circuits.

Both Manufacturing Centers work in tight cooperation with the R&D department and with the three commercial divisions:

• the Machine Tool Division operates in the world of measurement and control on machine tools;
• Testar Division works in the field of standard gauges and components for the gauge makers
• the Special Applications Division covers the area of customized gauging stations (manual benches and automatic machines) tailored on the specific customers requests