  We present an experimental apparatus that produces Bose-Einstein condensates
(BECs) of $^{87}$Rb atoms at a rate of 1 Hz. As a demonstration of the system's
ability to operate continuously, 30 BECs were produced and imaged in 32.1 s.
Without imaging, a single BEC could be produced in 953 ms. The system uses an
atom chip to confine atoms in a dimple trap with frequencies exceeding 1 kHz.
With this tight trap, the duration of evaporative cooling was reduced to less
than 0.5 s. Using principal component analysis, insight into the largest
sources of noise and drift was obtained by extracting the dominant
contributions to the variance. The system utilizes a compact physics package
that can be integrated with lasers and electronics to create a transportable
ultracold-atom device for applications outside of a laboratory environment.
