Bloomy Controls, Inc.
Bloomy Controls, Inc., (Bloomy) provides products and services for avionics real-time test, manufacturing functional test, battery test and simulation, as well as world-class NI LabVIEW, TestStand, and VeriStand application development. Typical applications include PCBA functional test; aerospace systems integration lab (SIL) data systems; avionics and battery hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test; and rapid development of OEM software. These products and services exemplify the world’s best professional practices. Bloomy’s quality management system conforms to the ISO 9001:2015 standard. A National Instruments (NI) Platinum Partner, Bloomy set the industry standard in LabVIEW development best practices by publishing its internal development standards in The LabVIEW Style Book (copyright © 2007, Prentice Hall).
- 860-298-9925
- info@bloomy.com
- 68 Nutmeg Road South
South Windsor, CT 06074
United States
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Bloomy has more than 20 years of experience developing NI-based systems using LabVIEW, TestStand, VeriStand, DIAdem, PXI, RIO, compactDAQ, plug-in DAQ, and SCXI. We partner with our customers to provide an automation strategy comprised of a combination of training and services that brings new systems online quickly, while expanding your in-house capabilities to maintain and extend the systems we deploy.
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1553B C Series Module
Bloomy’s 1553B C Series module provides MIL-STD-1553B communication functionality in a rugged National Instruments (NI) CompactRIO form factor. The module includes a single dual-redundant bus interface that can operate in bus controller, remote terminal, and bus monitor modes.
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BMS Manufacturing Test System
The Battery Management System (BMS) Manufacturing Test System performs functional testing of product during end-of-line manufacturing. The system hardware includes all instrumentation to test a BMS, including multiple cell simulators, a mass interconnect for quick product transition and bed-of-nail fixtures to ensure less down time, higher throughput, and easy maintenance. The system application easily integrates into manufacturing processes, provides a method to test multiple product types, and optimizes tests to ensure only good product is released from manufacturing.
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SLSC and CRIO Modules and Accessories
Our approach to delivering a high-quality Aerospace, Automated Test Equipment (ATE) asset begins with leveraging National Instruments hardware and software standard platforms. Beginning with high quality instrument platforms for standard Input and Output (I/O), we leverage NI’s PXI and Compact RIO platforms. Extending these system is NI’s unique platform for Switching, Loads and Signal Conditioning (SLSC), which allow the standard I/O to be customized for high performance aerospace industry applications.
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Simulation Systems
Bloomy offers Simulation Systems for Hardware in-the-Loop (HIL) and open loop test of electronic controls and mechanical actuators for all types of transportation and defense systems including aircraft, rail, automobiles and ships. These systems, now deployed at major aerospace, locomotive and military manufacturers and research facilities worldwide, provide world-class, high-fidelity simulated environments for use in both closed-loop and open-loop testing. Because Bloomy’s Simulation Systems ar...show more -
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Benchtop Automated Functional Test
midUTS
Combining bench-top portability with powerful automated test functionality, the midUTS is an extremely versatile yet cost-effective solution for your electronics functional test needs. Comprised of high-performance commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) instruments, along with Bloomy’s medium-density signal-routing PCBAs, a built-in or USB-connected PC, and a pair of high-integrity, production-grade cables connected to an adjacent benchtop fixture, the midUTS can be used in engineering for PCBA bring u...show more -
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Load Module for SLSC
Bloomy's 8-Channel Load Module provides isolated current and voltage measurements for eight on-board 5W loads or for eight off-board 120W loads. With built-in switching for calibration and fault injection, the module provides unsurpassed capability for Mil/Aero applications. The module also provides switching and connections to allow switching between a real load (e.g., actuator, valve, etc.) and the simulated load.
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Validation System
FLEX BMS
The FLEX BMS™ Validation System is a quick-connecting, highly flexible test system for rapid evaluation of centralized, single-board and distributed battery management systems. Utilizing Bloomy’s industry-leading battery cell simulators, COTS instrumentation, industry-standard connectors, and models that run in real-time, the FLEX BMS™ Validation System can easily be reconfigured to test a wide variety of BMSs. The FLEX BMS™ Validation System is used by national and regional safety and standards labs for certifying the BMS for a wide array of e-mobility products and applications.
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Multipurpose Module for SLSC
Bloomy’s Multipurpose Module for SLSC provides a convenient location in an SLSC system for applications ranging from a simple rearrangement of signals to installation of circuits and components. Both front panel connectors are mapped to screw terminals, through holes, and surface-mount technology pads thus accommodating a wide variety of components. Breakout areas for all rear transition interface (RTI) pins simplify integration into SLSC-based systems. On-board power supplies (±15VDC, +5V, and +3.3V) are also made available for the user’s analog and digital circuits. The module features a considerable amount of available board space for user applications.
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Mixed Signal Battery Test System
The Mixed-Signal Battery-Test System is an automated test platform designed to meet today’s advanced battery test requirements. The platform is ideal for testing a range of battery cells and packs, and can be used in applications such as research and design, quality control, and end-of-line manufacturing. Its distributed architecture provides a scalable solution with configurable system components to accommodate specific applications.
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Test System
BMS HIL
The BMS Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Test System is a high performance platform providing all necessary input signals used for battery pack simulation. A real-time operating system executes complex cell and pack models commonly used for BMS algorithm development and firmware regression testing.
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Bloomy Simulation Reference System
The Bloomy Simulation Reference System provides a hardware in-the-loop (HIL) test environment for dynamic, closed-loop testing of many aerospace and transportation control systems. The reference system integrates the computing, I/O, and software components needed for standalone use or to form the basis of a more complex test system.
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Systems Integration (SIL) Lab Data Acquisition
Bloomy’s SIL data system allows testing and simulation of every system component on the aircraft. The functionality of these complex integrated systems are fully tested, debugged, and verified safely in the lab prior to flight testing. This reduces cost and schedule for new aircraft. Bloomy has applied its expertise to multiple SILs.
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CESL2G
PWA212040
Your Pratt & Whitney GTF™ engines operate best when they have the latest software installed, and there's no better tool for you to keep your engine software up to date than the Bloomy Common Engine Software Loader (Second Generation). The result of collaboration between Pratt & Whitney and Bloomy, the Bloomy CESL2G is a clean-sheet design with reliability, safety, and convenience incorporated from the project’s inception.
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Functional Test Fixtures
Reliable connections to device under test (DUT) test points are essential for robust functional test. Bloomy provides rugged fixtures and cable sets (ITAs) built for thousands and thousands of cycles in manufacturing environments. With the industry’s best mass interconnects and internal electronic keying, our fixtures are easy to change out and are automatically recognized by the test system.
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