KIC Press Release May 1, 2007 - KIC to Introduce Low Cost Automatic Profiling System at Nepcon UK

(San Diego, CA -- May 1, 2007) : KIC, the leader of thermal profilers and process development and control products introduces KIC Vision, an Automatic Profiling System on UK distributor Link Hamson stand B41. KIC Vision recently won the 2007 SMT VISION Award in the category of Process Control Tools.

KIC Vision is a low-cost option designed for customers who want to eliminate the manual tasks associated with periodic profiling for their reflow ovens. Although this type of profiling has been important for production quality as well as process documentation, many electronics manufacturers are burdened by the negative effects of such manual tasks. These negative effects include interruption to the production flow, expense in terms of labour and material (profilers, thermocouples, "golden boards," etc.), error-prone measurements and the fact that infrequent profiling makes for poor quality control.

The new system is priced comparatively to a manual profiler, and the easy-to-use KIC Vision provides the best of both worlds. It runs in the background continuously and automatically, and it provides sought-after profiles as frequently as once an hour. The system relies on embedded sensors in the reflow oven and the proven Virtual Profiling software to accurately measure the product profile. After a baseline profile, the product profile is automatically measured and logged in the computer without any further manual input. The measured profile data includes all pertinent process data such as peak temperature, soak, fit to process window and more. The user may select the frequency of the automatic profiling from one profile in per hour increments up to once a week time slots, in one-hour intervals.
"KIC Vision is extremely cost-effective and now makes automatic profiling accessible to most electronics manufacturers large and small", explains Richard Booth of Link Hamson. "We welcome visitors to our stand to discuss KIC Vision in more detail; it really does reduce production downtime, recover labour time resources and significantly improve product quality. Link Hamson focuses on offering production solutions for the PCB assembly and electronics manufacturing industry.

About KIC
Based in San Diego, KIC is the industry leader in automated thermal management tools and systems for reflow, wave, cure and semiconductor thermal processes. The company pioneered the development of oven profilers and process development tools. KIC remains on the leading edge of the thermal industry with innovative tools for process development, optimization and real-time management.