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Manufacturing Intelligent Ideas. Intelligently Since 1950.
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MEET OUR CEO
MiQ Partners Taps German Engineer and
Manufacturing Expert as CEO
In October 2020, Olaf Tessarzyk joined MiQ Partners as Chief Executive
Officer to help lead the company through a new era of market expansion and
growth. He brings a rich history of engineering from his homeland, Germany,
and many positions in the U.S. in which he helped manufacturing companies
exceed profitability goals, and rapidly increase revenue by triple digits. We
asked Olaf to share his insights on what to expect in manufacturing for 2021
and beyond, and his vision for MiQ Partners.
What inspired you to join the To what do you credit your success
MiQ Partners team at this point for growing revenue and profits?
in your career?
My career started in the German military as a pilot
MiQ is like a rare diamond in the manufacturing and at age 25 I was given charge of 300 troops
industry, with an industrial structure and and about 100 civilian aviation workers. In this
exceptional management team that is highly role, I quickly learned the importance of
respected by clients in both its Ohio and California collaboration and culture if you want to win at any
locations for an extraordinary level of customer game. The same principles apply to business. For
focus. Having worked with automation companies every business I have successfully grown or
throughout my career from the customers turned around, the credit goes to the team and the
perspective, I know how critical customer-centricity company culture.
is for companies seeking automation partners.
Most impressive to me is how MiQ has developed When a team is impassioned about the same
unparalleled, comprehensive, turnkey systems for cause and focused on the same customer
custom design, build-to-print, and prototype outcomes, innovation rises from the human spirit
production to serve companies across all in ways you can’t predict. When a leader fosters a
industries, from medical devices, life sciences, culture that enables this by fueling everyone’s role
aerospace, CPG and more. With a proven track and involvement toward creating solutions for
record for helping start-up ventures grow from customers, businesses of all types will succeed. It
concept to mass production, we have continued to starts with the receptionist and ends at the
grow and expand at times when others have shipping clerk.
struggled. Our leading-edged engineering and
partnership turnkey approach is also a key People want to succeed and help a company
differentiator that sets us apart in a competitive grow. It’s in our human DNA. The shipping clerk
market. Additionally, we are one of the few firms in for example knows very well how the company is
contract manufacturing that is not only ISO 9001 doing if shipping goes through the roof. No KPIs
and AS 9100D certified, as well as ISO 13485 are needed for that. The use of all human
certified for medical devices to meet regulatory intelligence and resources will make companies
requirements”. succeed beyond even their expectations.
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Manufacturing faces new challenges heading into 2021. What do you
believe firms should do to adjust and achieve sustainable growth?
Any company planning to secure sustainable growth better has already adjusted to the new
norm. The old sayings, “Change or you will be changed.” And ”Don’t fight the inevitable,” apply to
today’s circumstances. What is the new norm? Well, most of us still remember September 11th
2001. That was not only a tremendous tragedy but also changed the business environment
significantly. The next one was the recession in 2009. Business changed after that again. Now we
have the COVID-19 impact that is changing how we conduct business in ways many business
people did not foresee. The basic principle is to adapt quickly to the new norm and have
sustainable processes in place to prevail and lead the industry. Success requires the whole team
to support.
MiQ Partners is a leading manufacturer risk due to unrealistic expectations, project teams
need to be empowered to speak up to keep the
of COVID-19 testing components. What
integrity of the end goal intact. This is important
enables MiQ to lead this critical for many reasons, and something we work to
endeavor? maintain. One way we are working to enable our
systems to operate with optimum efficiencies is to
continuously audit our systems, our processes,
It truly is an honor to be the leading go-to
and our equipment to assure to find opportunities
manufacturer for COVID-19 testing kit
for improvement and enable us to work smarter,
components. We’ve secured many contracts
better, and faster.
with medical device companies because of our
deep expertise in this company. We don’t just
hire engineering experts. We hire SMEs What are MiQ’s plans for expansion to
across verticals, enabling our team to help meet growing demand across industries?
create viable and revolutionary solutions and
the timelines needed and demanded by Through our developments we have been able to expand
COVID-19 testing kit manufacturers. For all of the capacity of our staff in all areas: Sales, Engineering,
us, manufacturing COVID-19 testing kit Assembly, Machining, etc. Fortunately MiQ owns it’s own
components is not only about building fully developed, self sufficient machine shop which
products for our customers, it’s about having a enables us to react much more quickly to increased
positive impact on the livelihood of our society. customer demands for production outputs and
What better goal to have and be proud of? accelerated time frames.
The Pressure to Get Products to We saw the importance of operating and maintaining an
Market at Record Rates Keeps internal supply chain to serve our clients’ needs and
Accelerating. How is MiQ meet market demands before it was critical. As a result,
we immediately tripled our throughput with the same
responding. personnel and have not missed a beating helping our
customers respond to changing market elements and
Getting to market on aggressive timelines, demands.
which more and more customers demand,
depends on having a team that knows what
they are doing and a team that has a high
level of integrity. It requires a culture where
everybody’s opinion counts and is heard. I
compare it a lot with aviation. Every crew
member has the equal right to abort a
mission without retaliation if he or she
deems it to be too dangerous. If a project is at
3In addition to our 100,000 square foot headquarter facility in Ohio, we
have a fully-fledged operation with 30,000 square foot in Carlsbad, CA with
all disciplines in Engineering, Purchasing, Project Management.
Given your leadership in we’ve experienced through COVID-19
automation in manufacturing and assembly
engineering and manufacturing will have a much bigger impact than in the
in Germany and the US, what is past. If you want to make your company
your vision for MiQ? sustainable there is no other option than to
go into automated manufacturing and
Our culture is the key to our growth. The assembly.
superiority in engineering paired with the
strategic partnerships we form with What do you do when
customers will only enable MiQ to continue
to grow and lead the industry in the near
notworking?
and long-term future. Over the next three My top priority is my family and my
years, we see a strengthening of MiQ’s wife who has her own successful
position as THE experts in Automation,
company in the field of high tech
especially Medical and Aerospace
industrial degreasers and
automation, and the most preferred go to
partner for customers across all industries. cleanliness testing. Through my first
One of the biggest shortfalls of automation job as a Test-Pilot for the German
companies is the post-delivery customer Army, I still enjoy the passion for
support. We shine in this field, and our aviation and – if time permits –
success will continue to be driven by our support two local sheriff
forward-thinking approach to customer organizations (Lake County Sheriff,
satisfaction via strategic partnerships and IN / Orange County Sheriff, CA) in
on-target production outcomes. We believe training pilots, flying search and
this strategic customer support will become rescue for fire-fighting missions on
an even more important decision-making the weekends as a volunteer to
factor for customers moving forward. Given help save lives.
our team of experts, and our proprietary
internal machine shop, and proprietary For more information, visit
processes, are confident we can continue miqpartners.com or call us at
to make down-times for customers less of 513.772.7000
a problem. When it comes to opportunities
for manufacturers, I believe the change
OLAF TESSARZYK ON A TRAINING MISSION WITH A OLAF TESSARZYK WITH GENETESIS CARDIOFLUX
STAFF MEMBER OF THE LAKE COUNTY CALIFORNIA MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPH MACHINE BUILT BY
SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT. MIQ PARTNERS IN WEST CHESTER, OHIO.
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