SMTA Guadalajara 2019 Day Two

by Scott Bronstad | Oct 25, 2019 | Events

Great Show in Guadalajara

“We had a great show in Guadalajara, Mexico where we released our newest machine, the 3901,” says Armando Garcia, BPM’s former Sales Director-Americas. “This machine has been developed to reach out to those customers who need to increase quality, performance and time to market and do not have a high volume to approve a purchasing of an automated system.”

“Immediately after releasing the machine, we started to have several opportunities to implement this solution, where the low price is the new thing in regards to the brand BPM Microsystems, but the quality is the same old one. Now, our customers will have BPM’s quality and low price. Only BPM can provide to the market all in one bundle: research, development, and manufacturing in the USA competing against Asian’s prices,” says Garcia.

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SMTA Guadalajara 2019 Day One

by Scott Bronstad | Oct 24, 2019 | Events

Day one of the SMTA Guadalajara 2019… great crowds to see BPM’s new APS, the 3901.

SMTA Guadalajara 2019

3rd Quarter Business Review and Company BBQ

by Scott Bronstad | Sep 11, 2019 | Awards, Events, News

3rd Quarter Business Review and Company BBQ

BPM Sales Heroes

William White, CEO of BPM (Middle) presents Colin Harper (left) and Jon Bondurant (right) with the BPM Sales Hero Award

BPM managers met for two days of department and individual business reviews September 10 and 11, 2019. We gathered the whole sales team from around the world: Dragon Zhang joined us from China and David Whitton traveled to Houston from Europe for two weeks of intensive training and meetings. William White, the founder and CEO of BPM, conducted the high-level strategy meetings. BPM will celebrate 35 years of business next year, and we’re excited for great things from the end of the year through 2020!

BPM Sales Department awarded two “Sales Hero” Awards: Colin Harper, Director of Engineering and Product Development, for some exciting advances (to be revealed soon), and Jon Bondurant, VP of Operations, for automating follow-ups in Salesforce for Inside Sales.

The whole BPM family gathered for a BBQ lunch, cooked on-site by Corey Miles, Director of Device Support.

IPC APEX 2019 Highlights

by Scott Bronstad | Feb 6, 2019 | Events, News

2019 NPI Award Winners

APEX Day One

WhisperTeach+ White Paper

If you’re into cool gadgets, APEX 2019 was like a techie’s Christmas. BPM brought its coolest new machines and rocked it! Trade shows are a lot of work, and lots of things can go wrong (and they did), but fortunately, everything was running like a top by Tuesday morning. Here are the highlights and some more pics:

NPI Award for WhisperTeach+ (if you bring back an NPI award in your carry-on luggage, it will flag a security check)
Over 150 guests (that we know about) over 2-1/2 days
Two video interviews (with Global SMT and What’s New in Electronics). Links coming soon
Many opportunities discovered and a few rekindled
The 3910 and 4910 Automated Programming Systems demonstrated why they are the best solution for Automotive, Industrial, IoT, Medical, etc. device programming— they truly are fast and easy (and profitable!)
An 8-foot video wall provided some additional buzz
Most of our Sales Representative Organizations covering the US, Canada, and Latin America participated, including InterLatin, the Murray Percival Group, and Restronics Inc.
Quote of the week: “Your booth is amazing– so much traffic; you must have sexy machines!” from our next-door neighbor from Parker Hannifin

Photo Gallery

#IPCapexEXPO

The 3910 was a hit (again) with its small footprint and big output

InterLatin, our sales organization in Mexico, was instrumental in engaging their connections to see what makes BPM different

It was great to show off fast and easy solutions to device programming

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

A rare moment– only a few folks in the booth

David Roy, Region Sales Manager for US/Canada, talks about the advantages of programming with BPM

We made some great connections (and some new friends) at APEX ’19

James “Jim” Holava, Global Sales Director, participated in several interviews during APEX

Behind the scenes during a video interview at APEX on day 2

Kim Sauer with What's New in Electronics talks with our Jim Holava about WhisperTeach+

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The 4910 was flying fast and causing a stir at APEX ’19

Armando Garcia, Regional Sales Manager for Latin America, discusses opportunities with his team from InterLatin

APEX ’19 was definitely not boring!

William White (center), founder and CEO of BPM meets with several of our sales organizations, such as the Murrey Percival Group

Our booth was not ideally located, but we still managed to have tremendous traffic… must be something to see

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

The San Diego Convention Center is next to the Gaslight District, the historic heart of San Diego, filled with shops, bars and restaurants

The view from the Convention Center overlooking Coranado Island

The Convention Center in San Diego

APEX Day One

by Scott Bronstad | 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!

Happy New Year from your Team at BPM

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.