Scanfil and Etteplan have started a re-design project for a global industrial customer to extend the product lifecycle and improve manufacturability. The project includes a re-design of 21 circuit boards, with the aim of extending the life of the products by more than 10 years and achieving cost savings.

Scanfil and its development partner Etteplan started a re-design program for a global industrial customer in construction and living.

The program includes re-designing 21 printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) and targets over 10 years of product life-cycle extension combined with improved manufacturability and lower cost. The program was kicked off just before summer. The first designs have now been prototyped and tested.

The program will run in four subsequent waves, each with 5-6 PCBA designs. All re-designs will be completed within 18 months.

“This program demonstrates that we can deliver on our promise of fast time-to-market. Given the scalability of the development resources from Etteplan, we are designing several boards in parallel, and by adding our proactive approach to supply chain management and design for manufacturing support we can reduce the number of prototype rounds and ensure a smooth new product introduction”, says Reijo Kalenius, Global Development Manager at Scanfil.

The program includes several Scanfil sites with Sieradz working on the component evaluation and Malmö on the design for manufacturing support and rapid prototyping. Atlanta factory will eventually be responsible for serial production and delivery to the end customer in North America. Etteplan carries out most of the development work in Poland.

“This is a great example of our long-lasting partnership. As a company with extensive experience in engineering and PCBA design, it’s exciting to see how we can together with Scanfil bring value to their customer through this program”, says Tero Leppänen, SVP of Software and Embedded Solutions at Etteplan.

“These products will be a great addition to our delivery scope and this program shows the potential of our combined design and manufacturing services offering with Etteplan. It is wonderful to see how excited our global team is in taking on such an assignment and how we can together support our customers’ need for fast time-to-market”, says Global Sales Manager Andreas Bohner at Scanfil.

About Scanfil

Scanfil plc is the largest European stock-listed Electronics Manufacturing Service company (EMS) with EUR 902 million turnover in 2023. It serves global industry leaders in Industrial, Energy & Cleantech as well as the Medtech & Life Science customer segments. Scanfil’s objective is to increase customer value by helping them to become more competitive and to be their global, most preferred supply chain, and long-term manufacturing partner. www.scanfil.com

About Etteplan

Etteplan is a growing technology service company with the purpose of bringing people and technologies together to change things for the better. Together with our customers, we are building a world where every system, process, and product can be made smarter, more efficient, and more sustainable. Our customers include world’s leading companies in the manufacturing industry. In 2023, we had a turnover of EUR 360.0 million and around 4,000 professionals in Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Denmark and China. Etteplan's shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd under the ETTE ticker. www.etteplan.com