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APEX Day One

APEX Day One

by | Jan 30, 2019 | Events, News

APEX Day One is in the books– we had a great first day meeting with customers, soon-to-be customers, distributors and friends in the business. When the doors opened at 10am, we had a full house. Things stayed busy all through lunch. The afternoon slowed down a bit, but we had a lot to celebrate.

We received the NPI Award for new product development again this year (two years in a row). Last year, we won for WhisperTeach (auto-teach the critical z-height). This year, we received the award for WhisperTeach+ 

  • Reduces set-up times by as much as an hour (compared to competitor’s manual teach methods)
  • Improves yield and job performance with fully-automated teach
  • Blazing-fast set-ups with fully-autonomous XYZ and Theta Teach— up to 48 sockets in just a few minutes without operator intervention

Jim Holava, our Global Sales Director, gave an interview with SMT Global Magazine… stay tuned for that link.

We still have two more days of meetings and greetings. If you’re in SoCal, drop by and do the WhisperTeach Challenge– see if you can beat your fellow humans in a Z-Teach challenge. The closest to the WhisperTeach without going over (which can damage the device) has a chance to win an iPad. We’re also having a special appearance with our founder and president, William White, on Wednesday.

The WhisperTeach Challenge

Game controller in hand, get your game face on for the WhisperTeach Challenge

The BPM Team: Penny, Romo, Dave, Armando and Jim (Scott is behind the camera)

BPM is a Global SMT & Packaging Journal Sponsor again this year

Setting up for Jim’s interview

Behind the scenes

Trevor Galbraith of Global SMT Journal interviews Jim Holava

Jim talked about the advantages of programming with WhisperTeach

Hashtag BPM3910

Magnetic levitation is always cool

The 2019 NPI Award for Production Software (two years in a row!)

Lots of action on the first day

Come see us!

2900L Manual Programmer Video

2900L Manual Programmer Video

by | Jan 21, 2019 | Video

2900L Manual Programmer Video

BPM 2900L Manual Programmer

Universal Chip Programming with Precision Socket Actuator Lever. Precision High Volume Production Manual Programmer– the 2900L is a multi-socket manual production programmer ideal for volumes from 1K to 500K+ per year. BPM’s 2900L is excellent for smaller jobs with long programming times (Updated 2/23)

Happy New Year from your Team at BPM

Happy New Year from your Team at BPM

by | Dec 20, 2018 | Events

Happy New Year from your Team at BPM

Office Closed Tuesday, January 1, 2019

This Holiday Season, the whole team at BPM wishes you a very Merry Christmas and a  Happy, Prosperous New Year!

The Awards

The Department that stood out and will have the Bragging rights for 2018 will be Device Support !!!!  I just don’t know where to start. It reminds me of a winter wonderland!

Award for the “Jolliest with a splash of the Dark side” goes to Inside Sales –  Love that your mascot is wearing Hayley’s Dress and is lit up.

Award for the “Most Creative” goes to the  APS, Sites, and Software.team. The Christmas tree and lights will hold a special memory for us all.

Award for “Nice try but maybe next year” goes to Customer service – Although, when the time came,  you showed your holiday cheer to Momin and made us laugh

Award for “Most Determined to have spirit despite your limitations” goes to Production. You all used your limited areas and made the departments a Fun and festive place, Way to go!!

Thank you all for participating and maybe next year we will have some other departments join in as well, not mentioning names but Accounting, Marketing and RSM’s we have faith in 2019.

BPM Lobby

Special thanks to Penny (center) and Kellie (to Penny’s right) for spearheading this years Toys for Tots (and teens) drive!

Your team in customer service

Momon was out this week… this is what happens!

Paul and the door to the inner sanctum

Penny and the Chrismas Monkey in Inside Sales

Inside Sales Cubes

Is that an elf on the shelf? I think it’s expired

Penny’s office is quite festive

Device support won the decorating contest

This was looking like a police line-up, so I asked them to look to the left

This might represent snow… I am reminded of Linus’s blanket (wrong color though)

It’s looking like a white Christmas in DS

This may not look it, but this is the most expensive tree in the building (by many factors)

Christmas in the “Skunk Works” (R&D)

Happy Hannukuh!

Your production team

Is that a Christmas tree in Shipping?

6.4.2 Release Notes

by | Dec 12, 2018 | Software Release Notes

BPWin Highlights

  • Added a feature to secure JobMaster files and ensure they can never be modified. This feature can be found in the JobMaster/Configure named “Lockdown JobMaster Files”. When JobMaster files are saved while this is checked those JobMaster files will disallow changes to any settings, regardless of the user having entered the Supervisor password and/or the Job Protection password.  This feature is ideal for critical job files that must not change.
  • Added checks to ensure hardware & software compatibility on 9th Gen programmers. 9th Gen programmers with CPLD versions prior to 107h will require an update which will be made available in BPWin 6.4.3. Run diagnostics to determine the site CPLD version.

BPM 3000/4000 Series Autohandler

  • Fixed an issue happening on upward vision systems where vision alignment was skipped when using the label presenter. This applies to the 3800MK2 and 3900 APS.
  • Resolved intermittent site motor failures that sometimes occur when the APS door is opened during the site open/close cycle.
  • Fixed a crash experienced when running a job session with Mechanical Benchmark as the device selection with an empty buffer.

Device Programming Enhancements

  • Resolved Read and Compare issues for eMMC devices on 9th Gen.
  • Added a feature which allows the user to abort the checksum calculation while loading a data pattern.
Toys for Tots

Toys for Tots

by | Nov 28, 2018 | News

Toys for Tots

The Toys for Tots donation box is in the lobby! Please drop off your new, unwrapped toys in the box anytime between now and December 17th! We will be dropping off the donations to Toys for Tots that day!

Houston Children’s Charity has reached out to us about the Toys for Tots drive, providing a list of gift ideas for teenagers, as they are severely low on toys for teens every year. I have attached that list for everyone in case you want to use it when shopping for the drive but please do not feel like you have to use it- any and all donations you bring in are greatly appreciated and for an excellent cause. In case you missed it, the box for collecting the donations is in the lobby, next to the Christmas tree. 🙂
Thank you!
Kellie & Penny

Update:
12/06/2018- The box is starting to fill up…