by Scott Bronstad | 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.
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
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)
Is that a Christmas tree in Shipping?
by Scott Bronstad | Nov 21, 2018 | Events, News
Electronica 2018, the world’s largest Electronics Show
Electronica 2018 is in the books. Here are the numbers:
- 16 Halls, each larger than a football field and 3 stories tall, filled with hundreds of booths representing thousands of companies.
- 4 full days, plus 2 days of set up.
- In our booth (138 in Hall B5) we had 6 guys (3 from sales/marketing, 3 from engineering/support) from BPM plus another 6 from our European partner, Adaptsys.
- 2 Automated Programming Systems, the 3910 and the newest 4910, which was launched at Electronica.
- 1 Manual Programmer, the 2900L.
- Months and months of preparation went into this trade show
- 2 Pony Kegs of fine German Bier served
- Over 300 sales flyers distributed. We ran out of Manual Programmer flyers by day 2 and printed more.
- Over 50 people participated in our “WhisperTeach Challenge” (more on that later).
- Lots of requests for videos of the 4910. Lots of “eyeballs” from people walking by– there wasn’t anything like the 4910 in the whole show
- A large number of requests for more info, as well as several great meetings with Distributors and Customers
The result: Electronica in Munich last week was by far the best trade show we have ever been to. A lot of great opportunities.
Congratulations to Richard Steinhäuser of Creative Chips in Dresden, Germany; he is our “WhisperTeach Challenge” winner, and will be receiving an Apple iPad.”I am glad that I have won, but lacking the fancy sensors I admit that I was lucky. I am looking forward to the next challenge with (BPM’s European Partner) Adaptsys,” said Mr. Steinhäuser. He did a manual z-height teach of just 2 steps above the fully-automated teach. In second place, at just 5 steps above, was Elliot Williams of Hackaday.com.
The contest was a great way to showcase just how awesome is WhisperTeach. it saved time: approximately 45 seconds vs under 8 seconds for WhisperTeach. WhisperTeach was more accurate than humans, and when setting up jobs accuracy counts (as the machine is set up, so shall it run). If the “teach” is too high, the vacuum could cause the chip to misalign and cause socket problems; teach too low and you could cause flaws or cracks in the device– not just the one taught, but the whole job!
Lots of eyeballs on the 4910, with a top DPH of over 1,700
Our European partners, Adaptsys, were great hosts; they always had snacks and sandwiches, and even had a bar with beer on tap
Many people were interested in Manual Programming
James Holava, Global Sales Director, talking about device programming solutions
Charlie Walton, BPM’s Senior Field Technician, kept the machines purring and the jokes coming
A nice view of the BPM/Adaptsys booth. It was in a great location
Lots of good traffic and conversations
Everyone wanted to know more about the 4910 (and many asked to take video)
Some of the booths were huge, including Arrow
Avnet’s booth was half a city block and 3 stories tall
Matrix Integrated had a very cool double-decker booth
16 halls, each bigger than a football field, held the largest electronics show in the world. This was BPM’s building
Fernado Guillen and James Holava enjoy some free time at the Hoffbrau Haus, one of the oldest restaurants in the world
The view from a church tower in the old city of Munich
by Scott Bronstad | Oct 10, 2018 | Events
150 attendees evangelize electronics
David Roy, Regional Sales Manager for BPM Microsystems, represented BPM at the
Long Island SMTA Show October 4, 2018. He met with contract electronics manufacturers and was able to introduce and spread the word about BPM Microsystems to about 100 of the 150 attendees. “Several participants took extra business cards to evangelize on behalf of BPM Microsystems as well,” said Mr. Roy. “I expect in time to get 1 to 2 new APS opportunities directly or indirectly generated from this show.”
by Scott Bronstad | May 16, 2013 | Events
HOUSTON — May 16, 2013 — BPM Microsystems announces that it will exhibit its award-winning 2800ISP parallel in-system device programmer as well as its 2800 manual universal device programmer in booth #333 at the upcoming Design Automation Conference (DAC), scheduled to take place June 2-6, 2013 at the Austin Convention Center in Texas.
The new 2800ISP incorporates the company’s 8th Generation site technology utilizing its Vector Engine Co-Processor® into a custom-designed test fixture, allowing its customers to program flash architectures including eMMC, PCM and Raw NAND, plus MCUs and other device technologies on-board after reflow. In 2012 the company added support for third party functional testing, such as boundary scan, with the capability to test up to 240 pins in addition to the 960 pins available for programming.
Ideal for medium- to high-volume production, the 2800ISP is configurable and can program up to 16 devices in parallel. Like all 8th Generation programmers, the 2800ISP with BPM’s Vector Engine Co-Processor is capable of achieving an amazing peak operating rate of 12.8 Gb per second. This solves the test bottleneck while allowing the operator to program the latest data just in time, all while attaining a very low programming cost per device.
The 2800 combines the unrivaled speed of the Vector Engine Co-Processor with true universal device support, resulting in the fastest manual universal programmer in the industry.
by Scott Bronstad | Apr 8, 2013 | Events
Kasion Automation to demonstrate BPM Microsystems’ 2800ISP device programmer at NEPCON China 2013
HOUSTON — April 8, 2013 — BPM Microsystems announces that its distributor Kasion Automation Ltd. (KAL) will exhibit the award-winning 2800ISP parallel in-system device programmer in booth #1G56 at NEPCON China 2013, scheduled to take place April 23-25, 2013 at the Shanghai World EXPO Exhibition & Convention Center.
Ideal for medium- to high-volume production, the 2800ISP is configurable and can program up to 16 devices in parallel. Like all 8th Generation programmers, the 2800ISP with BPM’s Vector Engine Co-Processor is capable of achieving an amazing peak operating rate of 12.8 Gb per second. This solves the test bottleneck while allowing the operator to program the latest data just in time, all while attaining a very low programming cost per device.
The new 2800ISP incorporates the company’s 8th Generation site technology utilizing its Vector Engine Co-Processor® into a custom-designed test fixture, allowing its customers to program flash architectures including eMMC, PCM and Raw NAND, plus MCUs and other device technologies on-board after reflow. In 2012, the company added support for third party functional testing, such as boundary scan, with the capability to test up to 240 pins in addition to the 960 pins available for programming.
by Scott Bronstad | Mar 15, 2013 | Events
BPM Microsystems’ cutting-edge technology to be displayed at DESIGN West 2013
HOUSTON — March 15, 2013 — BPM Microsystems announces that it will exhibit its award-winning 2800ISP parallel in-system device programmer in Booth #2134 at the DESIGN West conference and exhibition, scheduled to take place April 22-25, 2013 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA.
The new 2800ISP incorporates the company’s 8th Generation site technology utilizing its Vector Engine Co-Processor® into a custom-designed test fixture, allowing its customers to program flash architectures including eMMC, PCM and Raw NAND, plus MCUs and other device technologies on-board after reflow. In 2012, the company added support for third party functional testing, such as boundary scan, with the capability to test up to 240 pins in addition to the 960 pins available for programming.
Ideal for medium- to high-volume production, the 2800ISP is configurable and can program up to 16 devices in parallel. Like all 8th Generation programmers, the 2800ISP with BPM’s Vector Engine Co-Processor is capable of achieving an amazing peak operating rate of 12.8 Gb per second. This solves the test bottleneck while allowing the operator to program the latest data just in time, all while attaining a very low programming cost per device.
For more information, meet with company representatives in Booth #2134 at the show.
