Enabling the future of printed electronics
MSWtech helps companies find real value in printed, flexible and hybrid electronics – from technology assessment and education to workshops, implementation and reliability testing.
FIG. 1–2TS PATCH – NFC antenna with integrated temperature sensor; layer principle as a schematic.
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Insights into printed electronics, projects and events from Wolfgang Mildner.
Management. Strategy. Workflow.
Creating new value chains and workflows makes the best use of printed electronics. That is why MSWtech stands for managing strategic workflows.
MSWtech is the home of various competences. Originally rooted in software development, MSWtech today brings together everything needed to analyse technologies – especially printed electronics – for customers, to educate their teams to make the best use of them, and to develop programmes and actions that create the greatest value for companies and their customers.
- Founder Wolfgang Mildner: computer science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, a career at Siemens, Managing Director of PolyIC from 2004
- Bridging the gap between research and what industry can actually use
- Own hardware prototypes and a test center for flexible electronics
Technologies & expertise
Printed electronics adds new features to existing applications and opens new markets – standalone or combined with silicon electronics. These are the fields MSWtech works in.
Printed electronics
A key enabling technology: large-area, lightweight, thin and flexible, and suited to low-cost roll-to-roll production. What is behind the buzz – materials, processes, applications and value chains.
Flexible & hybrid electronics
Printed structures combined with conventional silicon components on flexible substrates – performance where it is needed, flexibility everywhere else.
NFC, RFID & energy harvesting
Smartphones as reader and power source: NFC links print to the internet and can light up to 10 LEDs without a battery.
Smart sensors & patches
Thin, flexible, skin-friendly sensor patches – such as temperature sensing read out by smartphone.
Smart packaging & labels
Interactive, connected and illuminated packaging and labels that attract customers and add value.
Wearables & 3D electronics
Electronics goes 3D: from printed electronics to structural electronics in textiles, sports, healthcare and mobility.
Featured projects
MSWtech develops its own demonstrators and prototypes – shown at LOPEC and other international events – to make the value of printed electronics tangible.
Services & consulting
Information, education, analysis, implementation, communication and benchmarking: the steps needed to work out the specific value of a technology for a company and its customers – and to start a successful business.
Information
Where the technology stands and what it can do today.
Education
Introductions, seminars and workshops for your teams.
Analysis
Market potential, business impact and competences.
Implementation
Project plans, programmes and project management.
Communication
Partners, networks and the right people connected.
Benchmarking
State of the art and reliability, measured.
MSWtech Test Center Europe
New since 2024 in Nuremberg, in collaboration with BayflexSolutions: a testbed for flexible and stretchable solutions.
- Mechanical stress: stretching, flexing, bending and more
- Data acquisition synchronised by test cycle – optical and functional data
- Data storage and trend analysis
Why MSWtech
MSWtech was founded on a simple observation: there is a big gap between what research makes possible and what industry knows about it. Closing that gap takes experience, a network and hands-on work.
Industrial leadership experience
At Siemens, Wolfgang Mildner initiated and supported several business areas; from 2004 he was Managing Director of PolyIC, a company for printed electronics.
A network across the value chain
OE-A member since 2015, General Chair of LOPEC 2021, steering board of the EU WORTH project, supervisory board of RAS AG since 2019.
Hands-on hardware
Own demonstrators – TS PATCH, NFC-LED, Smart Book – and a test center for flexible electronics with BayflexSolutions.
Education and communication
Speaker and session chair at CES, productronica, electronica, LOPEC, ISPO, drupa, interpack, ICFPE Taipei and many more – plus seminars and conferences as technical director.
Network & cooperation
Networking is the key to success with new technologies. Knowing the structures, the value chain, the companies and the key people and organisations enables a fast flow of information.
Latest activities
Talks, exhibitions, publications and projects – from LOPEC in Munich to CES in Las Vegas. More than ten years of activities are documented in the archive.
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LOPEC 2026: MSWtech + SEHO + TH Nürnberg
At booth B0.111 you gain insights into: Photonic-based selective reflow soldering concepts; Advantages for flexible substrates and printed …
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DFF 25 – anniversary celebration
Talk at the 25th anniversary of the German Flat Panel Display Forum (DFF): the evolution of displays for HMI.
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LOPEC 2023: MSWtech at booth B0.109
MSWtech exhibits at booth B0.109, together with BayflexSolutions. Topics at the booth: Internet of Things; Smart patches (TS PATCH); RFID; Smart Book
Frequently asked questions
Short, direct answers to the questions we are asked most often.
MSWtech at a glance
- Company
- MSWtech – Management · Strategy · Workflow
- Founded
- 1983, refocused on printed electronics in 2015
- Founder & owner
- Wolfgang Mildner
- Location
- Feuerweg 13c, 90547 Stein near Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
- Focus
- Printed, flexible and hybrid electronics
- Services
- Consulting, education, workshops, project and interim management, reliability testing
- Test Center
- Test Center Europe in Nuremberg, with BayflexSolutions, since 2024
- Membership
- OE-A (Organic and Printed Electronics Association) since 2015
- Languages
- German, English
What does MSWtech do?
MSWtech helps companies find the value of printed, flexible and hybrid electronics for their products. This covers information, education, analysis, implementation, communication and benchmarking – from a first introduction through workshops and project management to reliability testing at the Test Center Europe.
What is printed electronics?
Printed electronics is electronics whose functions – conductive lines, sensors, light elements or complete circuits – are applied with printing processes, usually onto flexible films. It is thin, lightweight, flexible and large-area, and can be produced cost-effectively in high volumes using roll-to-roll processes. Learn more
Which industries does MSWtech work for?
MSWtech supports companies in materials and chemicals, automotive, packaging, labelling, medical and life science, and sports and wearables, among others. Examples are on the References & Industries page.
What does the MSWtech Test Center Europe offer?
The Test Center Europe in Nuremberg tests flexible and stretchable electronics under repeated mechanical stress – stretching, flexing, bending. Optical data (high-resolution or microscope images) and functional data such as electrical resistance are captured in sync with each test cycle, stored and analysed as trends. It was set up in 2024 in collaboration with BayflexSolutions.
What is the TS PATCH?
TS PATCH is a thin, flexible temperature sensor patch by MSWtech. It uses standard NFC with an integrated temperature sensor, can be read out by smartphone including a unique ID, and is made with printed electronics and additive manufacturing. See the project
How can NFC power LEDs without a battery?
An NFC-enabled smartphone creates a field from which a printed antenna harvests energy. This lights up to 10 LEDs without a battery and without an NFC chip – in a build thinner than 100 µm, for example for packaging, labels, books and leaflets. See NFC-LED
Does MSWtech offer seminars and workshops?
Yes. MSWtech offers introductions, basic and advanced seminars on printed electronics, and workshops and development programmes for companies. Wolfgang Mildner is also a regular speaker and session chair at conferences such as LOPEC, productronica, CES and ISPO.
Who is behind MSWtech?
Founder and owner is Wolfgang Mildner. After studying computer science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, he initiated and supported several business areas at Siemens and became Managing Director of PolyIC in 2004. He was General Chair of LOPEC 2021, and MSWtech has been an OE-A member since 2015. About us
How can I contact MSWtech?
By e-mail at info@mswtech.de, by phone at +49 160 96300657 or via the contact form. MSWtech is based in Stein near Nuremberg, Germany, and works in German and English, also internationally.
Let’s find the value of printed electronics for your product.
Tell us about your application, your questions or your next project. We look forward to your message.
- E-Mailinfo@mswtech.de
- Phone+49 160 96300657
- OfficeFeuerweg 13c · 90547 Stein