For research institutions
Faster from hypothesis to measurement.
Custom boards in days, not weeks: the missing piece of lab equipment for groups that build their own hardware.
01Two weeks at the assembly house
Quote, purchase order, queue, shipping: the experiment waits, and the next design change puts it on hold again.
02Hours at the soldering iron
Doctoral students hand-placing boards cost research time, and by hand there is a limit to what you can place at all.
03The expertise walks out every semester
A student learns the machine, does one project, graduates, and the pick-and-place goes back to standing idle.
04Lab equipment is bought for a decade
If a machine only runs while one particular person is around, most of that decade is spent idle.
01Placed the same day
Upload, put parts and board on the bed as they came, start: no quote, no purchase order, no queue.
02Research 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.
03No specialist to inherit
The software leads whoever is standing there through every step, so a new doctoral student runs a job in their first week.
04One machine for several groups
Nothing has to be taught or configured per person, so the machine serves every chair that needs a board, for the decade it was bought for.
More experiments per semester
A custom board no longer costs two weeks, so a design change is an afternoon, not a milestone.
Research time goes into research
Nobody in the group spends evenings at the soldering iron or weeks waiting on a supplier.
Every student can build hardware
The software carries the process, so hardware stops being the skill of one person in the group.
The whole loop runs in the lab
Design, fabricate, assemble, measure: with assembly in-house, the loop runs at the pace of the research.
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.
