by Scott Bronstad | Sep 17, 2018 | Announcements, New Product, News
BPM Microsystems announced today their latest Automated Programming Systems (APS) — the 3910. Rated at 1,432 Devices per Hour (DPH), the 3910 is the fastest device programming system in its class and price range. By utilizing on-the-fly vision centering, the engineering team at BPM increased real production performance by roughly 70% compared to the 3900, while maintaining a mid-level price point in the APS market.
“The 3910 delivers the lowest total cost per device by combining high throughput, ease of use, fast setup, high yield and the flexibility to program virtually any device on a single platform. All this is backed up by the most powerful software in the industry and our award-winning customer service team,” said William White, founder and President of BPM Microsystems.
“We have seen a lot of market excitement with the 3910 APS and we have already taken numerous orders,” said Colin Harper, Product Manager on the 3910. “By combining precision on-the-fly component alignment with optimized motion control, the 3910 is able to achieve real throughput previously only produced with the higher-priced systems. With reliable CSP support and high throughput, the new 3910 is truly in a class by itself,” says Harper.
The 3910 offers WhisperTeach™, one of BPM’s award-winning exclusive features. WhisperTeach™ automatically teaches the critical Z-height with 15-micron accuracy for each pick/place location even for very small packages, saving an average of 83% of the time required for job setup and increasing yield.
On-the-fly vision alignment is achieved with CyberOptics™, originally only available on their flagship product, the 4900. With full-time alignment, the new system can maintain maximum speeds without sacrificing precision. The 3910 has up to four 9th Generation high-speed universal programming sites, supporting up to 16 devices programmed simultaneously. Vector Engine with BitBlast, standard on all BPM’s 9th Gen systems, increases the throughput for high-density eMMC devices, compared to other systems. For example, on a 4GB Toshiba device, Vector Engine with BitBlast reduces program/verify time by over 8 minutes per device. In a direct comparison with one of BPM’s major competitors, that same device finished over 300 seconds faster on the 9th Gen programmer.
BPM will continue to offer the 3900 as a less expensive alternative for customers who don’t require the increased throughput.
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by Scott Bronstad | Aug 13, 2018 | Video
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by Scott Bronstad | Jul 31, 2018 | Software Release Notes
BPM 3000/4000 Series Autohandler
- Improved communication with the 4900 Fiber hybrid laser to eliminate “Busy Error” failures
- Fixed issue where Autohandlers with a legacy Galil 1040 controller could not initialize due to an unsupported command
- Feature added to allow BPWin Supervisors to establish the upper power limit on the APS laser marker. This feature is supported on both the CO2 and Fiber hybrid laser
- Fixed a communication problem between BPWin and TM50
- Corrected problem when other peripherals abort a job session because the Fiber hybrid laser has not finished initialization
- Fixed an issue with the autoloading of an inspection file where BPWin would timeout before UltraVim responded (This only applies to the ScannerTech 3D inspection system)
- Updated BPWin nomenclature to support two digits for the sub-minor version
by Scott Bronstad | Jul 9, 2018 | Announcements, News
HOUSTON, TX–July 9, 2018— BPM Microsystems finished the first half of 2018 with 62% year-over-year sales growth for automated programming systems. “After 33 years in business, we are still setting records across every aspect of our business,” said William White, President and CEO at BPM Microsystems. “Customers are responding positively to our best-in-class flexibility, reliability, capability, ease of use and support. It’s always a great feeling when you’re setting records. Our focus on trouble-free operation, customer productivity and total cost of ownership is really paying off.”
2018 Service Excellence Award
BPM kicked the year off with two prestigious awards. WhisperTeach™ won the 2018 NPI award for production software. This feature improves accuracy, productivity and prevents cracking of fragile CSP devices. BPM was also awarded the coveted Service Excellence Award for Highest Rating Customer Service in Device Programming Equipment.
BPM’s proven 4000 series handlers have more than proven their reliability with hundreds of installations worldwide with many systems still in 24×7 operation after more than 15 years. BPM’s proven 9th Gen programming sites deliver the fastest and most universal programming site technology on the market. BPM’s global service and support network serve the demanding requirements of mission-critical installations across six continents.
by Scott Bronstad | Jul 5, 2018 | Software Release Notes
BPM 3000/4000 Series Autohandler
- Added support for X-Stream Tape Feeder.
- Added a setting to enable BPWin to automatically set the 3D inspection part file name (Only applicable to the ScannerTech system).
- Added a setting to enable BPWin to automatically set the TM50 Tape Loader job number (Additional hardware required).
- BPWin will now prominently display important and more helpful details about certain errors instead of displaying an error message regarding an “Unexpected Response”.
Device Programming
- Resolved an issue where BPWin would crash on startup on some Windows 10 computers.
- A bug is fixed when the user is trying to change power supply settings.
- Before all device operations, all operation ranges of the device will be compared against Default Buffer Value, and if by that criteria they are found to be “blank” then BPWin will now prompt the user whether to continue with the operation.
- The auto range blank check is disabled for erase and read operations.
- Updated diagnostics to display which socket card locations are passing or failing diagnostics when socket cards are connected.
- Added support for FXASM9XDIAG diagnostics card for 9th Gen.
- Improved exception handling mechanism.
- Resolved an issue where a “PMU Refresh Timeout” error would occur on some devices when serialization is enabled.
- Resolved an issue related to the socket module list on 9th Gen.
