SMES engineering is run by Stan Mertens. A freelance engineer with over 20 years of experience in assembly, installation, maintenance, troubleshooting and repair.

From a young age, it was clear that a technical career would follow. After high school, I’ve joined the Royal Netherlands Navy as an technical engineer, doing maintenance and repairs on computer systems, sensor systems and other systems. This included electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic systems. Serving on Her Majesty ships, all problems that appear, need to be addressed with limited support. After 6 years, I moved to the position of instructor for new engineers. Training the students in system knowledge, troubleshooting and procedures.

Afterwards I’ve joined ASML, a leading semiconductor equipment manufacturer in the prototype manufacturing department. After 6 years of assembling, aligning and upgrading machines and sub assemblies, I’ve got the change to become third line technical support for the latest generation of lithography machines. This included field service visits around the world to train and support the technical team in the office and in the fab.

From there on, I’ve worked as an equipment engineer at Smart photonics. Working mostly at lithography related machines and processes. As this was a small pilot line, with a small equipment team, everyone worked on all systems in the fab. When the capacity of the pilot line needed to be increased, I’ve participated in several teams. One of the roles was as a project lead, having technical discussion with suppliers and updating the management. Other roles consisted of preparing the cleanroom, moving the machines into the factory, assisting during the installation and running the field acceptance tests together with the supplier. All of this during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now I’ve stared a new adventure by founding SMES engineering to support companies on project basis.

What can we do for you?

At SMES engineering we want to build a long lasting relationship with our customers to a level that we can provide additional capacity to your technical team on a short notice if needed.

Honesty and integrity are core values to us. If you ask for our support it can be an broad request like for example supporting during the installation of new tools, or very specific for a specific action on one machine. We will assess the request and discuss with you if questions arise. When it’s something we can do, we will tell you. If we think we’re not the best fit for this action, we will tell you as well.

We strive to provide the best possible service to your company and your customers. Therefor it’s best to focus on a few machines or machine types. In this way we can gain experience relative quick and add maximum value to you.