For corporate R&D labs
The next revision in days, not weeks.
For development teams that don't want to wait for the assembly house.
01Two weeks at the assembly house
Purchase order, quote, queue, shipping: the next revision waits, and the project schedule with it.
02Your design files go abroad with every run
Gerbers, BOM and placement data leave the building for each prototype, often to a contract manufacturer in China.
03Hours at the soldering iron
Developers hand-placing boards cost developer time, and by hand there is a limit to what you can place at all.
04You may already own a pick-and-place, and it sits idle
Bought for one project, then back to hand placing, because nobody had the routine to set it up.
01Placed the same day
Upload, put parts and board on the bed as they came, start: no purchase order, no queue, no shipping.
02IP stays in the building
Assemble in-house and nothing leaves: no design files to an external manufacturer, no unreleased board in someone else's hands.
03Developer time back, fine pitch included
Nobody sits at the iron, and the machine places what hands can't: 0402, BGA at 0.5 mm pitch.
04Used in the weeks nobody planned for it
Setup in 5 to 10 minutes, so a single board is worth putting on the machine, and the machine actually gets used.
Design is accelerating
AI tools are turning schematic and layout work from weeks into days, and the number of revisions a team can afford keeps rising.
Fabrication is a utility
Bare boards are a 24-hour to 7-day order at a price that rounds to nothing for a prototype.
Assembly hasn't moved
Getting the parts onto the board is still the slowest, least automated step in the loop, and it caps how fast everything else can go.
Whoever closes the loop fastest wins
Every revision your team assembles in-house the same day is one that no longer waits for a purchase order or an external queue. That is the advantage the Etna gives you.
Does the Etna fit your lab?
Solder paste and reflow are already in place
Then the Etna drops straight into the workflow: apply paste as before, the Etna places, reflow as before.
Not in house yet
A stencil printer and a small reflow oven are all it takes. We give specific recommendations in a personal conversation.
