BPM Microsystems announces the release of BPWin version 5.10, featuring new benefits for customers with software support such as e-mail notifications, black box log visualization and label printing.
BPWin’s new email notification feature for automated programming systems sends instant notifications of important system events plus a job summary report directly to the user’s inbox. This latest feature gives users the ability to monitor their automated programming system from anywhere in the world, allowing them to take immediate action if the programmer becomes idle.
Customers can easily set up e-mail notifications to multiple users or a single user when a certain job event takes place. Users will then receive an instant notification of the specified event while the job is in progress, leading to higher utilization, increased productivity and lower programming cost per device.
In addition, automated programming system’s black box log files can now be viewed graphically with the new log visualization feature. This feature was implemented to reduce time-consuming manual text searches and to help easily pinpoint the root cause of an unexpected event.
With color-coded data and letter-designated events, the log visualization feature can help users quickly and easily determine what set of circumstances contributed to an unexpected event or other performance metric to take action immediately and get their machine operating at peak performance.
Another added benefit allows customers to identify and maintain traceability of programmed devices. With the new label printing feature, BPWin can print a label using dynamic data from the current job such as device quantity, job master file name, job ID, device part number, data pattern information, and system information. BPWin interfaces with the printer using the Windows? print driver and a text-based command language. What this means is that the label content sent to the printer is comprised of command codes that are interpreted by the printer itself to generate text, barcodes and RFID tags.
BPWin will print the label using real-time values for text fields and barcode encoding when the job summary report is displayed. For RFID tags, BPWin will generate the content for the tag in tandem with the printed label.
Additional benefits will be implemented in BPWin version 5.12, which is scheduled for release on November 9, 2010. New software features can be found in the software release notes located under the Help menu of the BPWin software and at www.bpmmicro.com.
