TNO-ESI and Nearfield: architecting for scale

As Nearfield Instruments scales from startup to established player in atomic force microscopy-based metrology, systems engineering has become mission-critical. Through a tailored training program with TNO-ESI, the company is embedding architectural thinking across the organization – and solidifying that good systems engineering starts with the end in mind.

“We’re a young company,” says Frank Pasveer, director of systems engineering at Rotterdam-based Nearfield Instruments. “We had already several standards in place and we used the V-model, but every time new people joined, they brought different habits and terminology from previous employers.

We required a unified way of architecting.

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