Location Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Regions Great Lakes Gender Male
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Alan Sawula is the founder and CEO of Chipsetter™, a company providing game changing in-house assembly solutions for today’s electronics innovators. Familiar with the challenges inherent in prototype circuit board assembly, and inspired by the emergence of desktop 3D printers, as an undergraduate engineering student Sawula set out to find a way to
bring high-tech industrial manufacturing technology to the electronics workbench. Encouraged by an outpouring of online support for an early prototype shared on YouTube, Sawula continued to develop initial prototypes during graduate school. After graduating, Sawula incorporated Chipsetter, secured a $35,000 grant, refined the prototype, and grew the team to four exceptional members. After two years of development, Chipsetter is releasing the Chipsetter ONE™, a reliable desktop pick-and-place machine that enables electronics developers to quickly assemble circuit boards in-house, allowing them to get to market faster.
Sawula has been identified in BIZ Magazine Q2 2015 as one of Hamilton’s ‘Ones to Watch’. Sawula holds a B. Eng. in Mechatronics Engineering and a M.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, both from McMaster University.
