MBE’s management team is a greater Detroit turnkey group of leading experts who span the multitude of disciplines required to develop and deliver closure automation and production with seamless efficiency. We take advantage of the U.S. free market with a mixture of overseas tooling to make domestically-integrated competitive offers to automotive OEMs.
Offering an Advanced Product Line of
Innovative and Flexible Solutions
Automotive engineering and manufacturing is constantly evolving and MBE’s team of advanced talent relies on personal pride of innovation, competitiveness, skill and productivity for our continued success and growth. In 2024, we look forward to continuing to develop and offer advanced closure assembly and material handling products.
HISTORIC MILESTONES
1949
Modern Body Engineering is founded by V. Reo Campian, focusing on die design for automotive body stampings.
1968
MBE develops the first stretch toggle draw die and becomes an industry standard still current today.
1978
MBE designs the first cross transfer die designs in the USA for Volkswagen and becomes an industry standard still current today.
1985
Jonathon Campian integrates automotive closure assembly processes with stamping.
1989
MBE creates the world's first physical 3D osteo-reproduction model via internally developed software on CAT scan data acquired from Providence Hospital (Southfield, MI) and becomes an industry standard still current today.
1992
MBE develops, in association with Pflegehar Co. DE, the first 3-axis CNC stamping die pattern machine in the USA and becomes an industry standard still current today.
1994
MBE invents the layered CNC foundry pattern technique, rewrote the stamping die pattern standards book at GM's Technical Center, which became a world-industry standard, still state-of-the-art today.
2003
MBE combines stamping, closure assembly and handling into hybrid robotic technology.
2015
MBE lead engineer, Chris Zapinski, integrates automated transfer with cell controls.
2020
Robotic vision integrates into MBE offerings.
2024
MBE continues to develop and offer advanced closure assembly and material handling products, providing turnkey engineering and manufacturing solutions – from concept to production.
