Manufacturing companies are under growing pressure to use raw materials more efficiently, reduce waste and comply with increasingly complex regulations. At the same time, many small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) struggle with the question: where do we start?

We are proud to announce that we have signed an agreement to acquire engineering and consultancy specialist WEB. This acquisition is a major step for both companies and an important milestone in our international growth.

Last autumn, we strengthened our presence in Sweden through the acquisition of Level21 in Västerås. Today, we take the next step with the opening of a dedicated office in the city, expanding our footprint in one of Sweden’s most technology-intensive regions.

Technology consulting company TMC has acquired (embedded) software specialist Sioux Technologies NV, the Belgian entity of high-tech solutions provider Sioux Technologies, headquartered in Eindhoven. Over the past 25 years, the specialist has built a strong reputation and supports customers such as Atlas Copco, Antwerp Space, and Synamedia with complex software challenges. The acquisition strengthens TMC’s software expertise and its position in the Belgian market.

We’re proud to share that we’ve acquired a majority stake in Level21, a management consulting firm based in Västerås, Sweden. This partnership strengthens our local presence and broadens our service offering in Sweden, adding senior management consulting capabilities to our strong foundation in technology and engineering. For Level21, joining us means gaining access to an international network, deep technical know-how, and new growth opportunities.

We are stepping up our buy-and-build strategy to further strengthen our position in high-tech and digital consultancy. With the renewed shareholder structure involving Apheon and MML Capital, we are now able to complement our organic growth with a more ambitious acquisition approach. Our goal: four to six acquisitions a year.

Hightech consultancy firm TMC has acquired Adventec Consulting, a fast-growing French engineering firm based in Lille. The acquisition strengthens TMC’s service offering in the French market, particularly in the railway sector, while it provides Adventec’s team access to a global market and more capital to support its growth.

We’re excited to announce the opening of our newest office in Geneva, Switzerland. With 38 offices in 17 countries and more than 2,800 highly qualified scientists, engineers, and digital experts, our mission remains the same: supporting companies of all sizes across industries in realizing their most ambitious technological and engineering projects.

On May 5th, TMC opened its second office in Portugal. Following the success in Porto, the company has now set its sights on Lisbon. The ambitions are big: while TMC Portugal currently employs 60 employeneurs, that number is expected to grow to 150-200 by 2030. The expansion aligns with broader goals: strengthening international collaboration, broadening the service portfolio, and improving connections with both clients and employeneurs.

The energy transition is in full swing, but there’s still a lot of work to be done. We are increasingly executing impactful projects for our clients in this domain. TMC experts Joost Eleveld and Niek Elferink deal with this complex issue daily. How do they envision the future of the energy transition?

The Northeast branch of high-tech consultancy company TMC has officially opened the doors of its new office in Arnhem. TMC Northeast currently employs 200 employeneurs across its offices in Hengelo and Groningen. The goal is to scale up to 500 employees by 2030, with 150 based in Arnhem.

We are pleased to announce our continued partnership with Apheon as our lead investor and partner investor MML. Apheon has reaffirmed its commitment to TMC by reinvesting with additional capital raised through an Apheon-controlled vehicle, ensuring long-term strategic alignment. Together, Apheon and MML will provide the capital and expertise to support TMC’s ambitious plans for strategic expansion and acquisitions.

The growth of renewable energy is expected to continue to grow worldwide. The challenge lies in matching how energy is generated and consumed. Reason for the TMC Entrepreneurial Lab to work on energy storage which leads to more possibilities in residential areas. Jan-Jaap Koning, Employeneur TMC Science & Technology MidWest: “The solution lies in large-scale storage of electrical energy closer to big cities.”

We, at TMC, are expanding our services with a new specialised team focused on intellectual property (IP) and patents. This team assists startups and scaleups across Europe in better protecting their technological innovations with a new approach, increasing company value. This team of high-tech engineers, trained as IP specialists, possesses in-depth knowledge across various disciplines, including nanotechnology, (micro-)electronics, medical technology, and mechanical engineering. Led by Senior Physics R&D Engineer and IP Consultant Adonis Reyes, the team supports companies with a comprehensive strategic approach to IP, process management, and ongoing optimization of intellectual property.

Artificial Intelligence has become indispensable in all sectors. And it makes sense, as it creates a lot of efficiency and new opportunities for organizations. With this growing influence of advanced analytics, it is becoming increasingly important to have data in order and with quality. In this article, we will discuss how data governance, both traditional and GenAI analytics, and AI governance are connected.

We are strengthening our partnership with Open Pixel Systems (OPS), a fast-growing Belgian company specializing in end-to-end embedded software and firmware development and integration. OPS is a spin-off company from TMC, founded by employeneurs in 2020. After a close and successful collaboration, we are now investing in OPS together with its founders. This is a successful example of how our Employeneurship model contributes to technological innovation on a larger scale, while simultaneously motivating top technical talent to embrace entrepreneurship.

We are pleased to announce the expansion of our operations in the Middle East with the opening of a new office in Saudi Arabia. The booming economy of Saudi Arabia presents a significant demand for highly skilled engineering and digital expertise, and we are well-prepared to meet this need. This strategic move reinforces our commitment to grow to 10,000 employeneurs globally by 2032. Since his appointment as CEO of TMC Middle East in 2023, Mohamed Jawad has been instrumental in spearheading our growth in the region, starting from our office in Dubai.

We are excited to announce the opening of a new office in Mexico City, expanding our presence in North America. Under the leadership of our newly appointed CEO Mexico, Pierre-Antoine Adam, we aim to grow to 250 employeneurs by 2032. This new venture is part of our ongoing mission to support companies worldwide with their technological, sustainable, and engineering projects.

We are excited to announce the launch of a new team of technical experts specializing in Cloud Data Platforms and the Internet of Things (IoT) in the Netherlands. Under the leadership of our newly appointed director, Jelle Melis, our team of Azure cloud and IoT architects and data engineers is dedicated to helping clients make the most efficient and intelligent use of their technical devices and the data they generate. This initiative is particularly focused on meeting the growing demand within the manufacturing industry.

Start-ups, which need to be fast and agile for success, do not always have intellectual property rights (IP) and patents high on their agenda. Many start-ups are not fully aware of the importance of IP, fear high costs or consider it an unnecessary step in the early stages of their development. Whereas right now, partly due to the rise of AI, patent protection is a valuable investment. IP consultant Adonis Reyes of TMC argues for more attention to patents among start-ups and explains how that has led to great successes at start-up Spectricity.

In complex projects, how do you make sure you maintain an overview? Project managers are essential when planning and executing projects in complex environments where innovation is everyday practice. TMC Italy was the first country to create a dedicated Project Management business cell. By learning from each other, new ideas emerge and we can make customers even happier, says Federico Calzone, certified project manager.

The Northeast branch of high-tech consultancy company TMC has been growing steadily since its founding five years ago. The multinational, originally from Eindhoven, opened its first office in the east of the Netherlands in April 2019. After a flying start in Enschede and later Hengelo, the company expanded its presence in the North region with an office in Groningen in 2021. Currently, TMC Northeast has 200 employees and the goal is to scale this number up to 500 by 2030. This ambition is in line with TMC's international goal of 10,000 employeneurs worldwide by 2032. In addition, TMC Northeast plans to open a new office in Arnhem this year.

High-tech consultancy company TMC is proud to announce the acquisition of Guldberg, a fast-growing German engineering and IT service provider. This acquisition is an important step in TMC's strategy to strengthen its position in the German market.

We have great news to share! Today we announce the latest addition to our team, Mohamed Jawad, as the new CEO of TMC Middle East. Starting from 12 November, Mohamed is all set to lead us into a new chapter of growth and success. We are on a mission to support our valued clients in the Middle East with our specialized expertise across various sectors, including Data Science, Cloud, AI and Engineering.

We proudly announce the acquisition of Mobilee, a management consulting company specialized in digital transformations. Mobilee was established in 2004 and offers strategical and operational support to public as well as private organizations that are going through a digital transformation. We are now joining forces to optimize our services from both ends. The security of a big investor as TMC, offers Mobilee the opportunity to grow even faster autonomously. For us, the acquisition is a great way to broaden our services with this expertise at the intersection of business and IT.

We proudly present a revolutionary VR training tool in collaboration with UCLL University of Applied Sciences. Conversations about suicide remain a taboo, and therefore UCLL initiated a VR experience to teach students and nurses how to best cope with these patients. Our engineers from the Young Graduate Program stepped in to help: they turned the basic version into an interactive, scalable and hyper-realistic learning method.

Whereas disposable plastics were the go-to solution for a big family barbecue in the garden, a snack on the go or a picnic in the park in the early 2000s, plastic plates and forks are now nowhere to be found. Under pressure from European legislation, the use of disposable plastics in the Netherlands must be reduced by 40 per cent by 2026. Not very surprising when you know that in the Netherlands we throw away as many as 19 million disposable cups and containers every day.

Today, we have some exciting news to share. We are opening a new office in Stuttgart, Germany. We now have offices in 14 countries and 2,500 employeneurs worldwide, and Germany is a great next step. Operations will start immediately from Stuttgart, led by newly appointed CEO of TMC Germany South, Stamatios Stamatiadis. Stamatiadis is enthusiastic about the expansion: "TMC is committed to supporting its customers in various sectors, including the automotive and engineering sectors that are very familiar to me. I look forward to introducing TMC's unique Employeneurship model to Germany, giving German scientists, engineers and digital experts the space for their entrepreneurship and expertise."

A machine that consists of tens of thousands of parts, a software project with millions of lines of code... With these enormously complex challenges, you are dealing with all kinds of elements that are interrelated in a complex way. The Design Structure Matrix (DSM) allows us to map the interaction of the various subsystems. Ignacio Vazquez, Industry and Certificate Director at MIT System Design and Management and Jun Wang, chair of KIVI International Engineers and Employeneur at TMC, explain how the DSM can lead to unexpected and surprising results.

We are thrilled to announce a partnership with NSX Normalized Systems (NSX), a pioneering software builder. This collaboration, operating under the 'NSX powered by TMC' model, represents an intensified and non-exclusive relationship aimed at leveraging TMC's extensive technical engineering expertise and global network together with NSX's cutting-edge technology. Our goal is to deliver custom-built software solutions at scale across various industries, tailored to meet the unique needs of our clients.

We expand our international presence to a new continent with a talent hub in Tunisia. The new office opens the doors to the African market. TMC aims to attract more talent from this region to involve them in regional and international projects. This way, TMC is strengthening its position as a global service provider with local experts. “Our goal is to grow to 10.000 employees in 2030. To do so, and to provide top-notch services to our clients around the world, opening this talent hub is a logical next step,” says Emmanuel Mottrie, CEO of TMC.

Texts that are written automatically and unique images that are generated in seconds... In recent months, artificial intelligence (AI) has shown just how much it is capable of. If developments continue moving this rapidly, a lot could change in the years to come. We have listed five AI trends to look out for.

The rainforests are extremely important to our planet. Unfortunately, more and more rainforest is disappearing due to human activity. One of the initiatives to protect these areas is XPRIZE Rainforest. In this international competition, teams come up with a technical solution to map the entire rainforest. From TMC Belgium, the XiniX AI team will travel to Singapore in June 2023 to secure a place in the final.

Piotr Lutoslawski was working on volume production of hi-tech samples, used in experiments. Including nano-structured materials, thin films and other advanced structures that needed sophisticated equipment to be obtained. Project i-3d.io was born as a result of professional experience, a 3D-printing hobby and the will to become an entrepreneur. “Over two years I developed an idea in my head for a platform connecting users with research facilities which would help fabricate desired samples.”

Augmented Reality (AR) is becoming a bigger part of our daily lives. Think of the geo-filters in Snapchat, the Live View navigation in Google Maps and catching Pokémons in Pokémon Go. More companies are using AR to make their work processes more efficient. But what are the benefits? In this article we focus on three advantages of AR in Field Service and our Business Managers Yannick van Weert and Daniel Ijzermans share their vision on this topic.

The applications of 3D printing are expanding increasingly: we can print houses, hip implants and even hamburgers. 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is a technique in which a product is printed layer by layer. This technology is growing rapidly and is predicted to continue growing with 21% annually. In this article Erik Huisman, Paul Mestrom and Bart van Liere, all employeneurs at TMC, explain how 3D printing is developing within different sectors. What is possible within 3D printing already and what are the challenges?