KIC Thermal
KIC's provides products and services designed to improve a variety of thermal monitoring, profiling and process control applications.
Making Ovens Smarter
KIC provides hardware and software tools that help define, measure, monitor, and improve thermal processes for electronics manufacturing services. This reduces downtime, can decrease electrical expenses, and reduce your labor costs, all while improving your manufacturing quality, overall productivity, employee morale and customer satisfaction… and ultimately, profits.
KIC does this with a focus on continuous innovation. We’ve developed an entire generation of smart technologies for reflow ovens, curing ovens, and wave solder machines, allowing you to not just reduce production costs, to not just improve quality, but to add capabilities that you can use to win new business.
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All KIC products are designed to give maximum value and fast payback by streamlining your thermal process. Investment in a KIC product is a step toward total process control and quality management. All KIC products come with a no questions asked, 30 day money back guarantee.
KIC Thermal Postings
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KIC Vision² Periodic Automatic Profiling for Reflow and Curing Ovens
Eliminate manual periodic profiling KIC Vision² utilizes temperature and speed sensors embedded in the oven for consistent and accurate profile measurements of the proces...
The smart profiler for reduced cost, improved quality and convenient data sharing. Built with the Latest Data Processing and Wireless Technologies Available - A Smart Device...
KIC X⁵™ Intelligent Reflow Thermal Profiler
Robust and Compact Hardware with 2 Year Warranty This new and improved hardware is designed to withstand the roughest and toughest daily handling. In addition, the electronic circuitry has been changed to tolerate a high...
Conveniently view and share profiles on mobile devices. The K² is available both as a standard “passive” profiler as well as an “active” profiler in the same unit. The passive profiler measures and displays...
KICstart²™ Affordable, Easy to Use Thermal Profiler
The KICstart²™ thermal profiler utilizes core technologies developed by KIC, the world’s premier thermal profiling company, and is supported by KIC’s worldwide organization. Packaging these innovative technologies into a low...
KIC Auto-Focus Power - Thermal Process Optimization Software for Reflow Ovens
Conveniently view and share profiles on mobile devices Software Description Auto-Focus Power™ is a ‘recipe search engine’ with an intelligent database Every manual profi...
KIC Navigator Power - Process Optimization Software
Reflow Oven Set Up for Lower Electricity Use - Improve Production Quality The One-Best Process Set Up -- Automatically KIC’s powerful Navigator™ software is a system that automatically determines...
KIC Reflow Process Index (RPI) Software
Managing the Ultimate Reflow Oven Output. The KIC RPI helps manage reflow ovens to consistently maximize the desired results. In addition, the RPI provides process deficiency information in order to help users correct their defect issu...
ProBot Automatic Profiling System
The Profiling Machine for your Profile Machine The ProBot automatically verifies whether each PCB is processed to specification in the reflow oven. The suspect PCBs then can be sent off to batch X-ray. Because the typical batch X-ray m...
KIC 24/7 Wave - Wave Solder Process Software
Automatic Profiling, SPC and Traceability for Wave Solder The KIC 24/7 Wave brings an innovative level of automation to the wave solder process: around-the-clock monitoring, SPC charting, analysis, documentation, and production traceab...
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What Does Industry 4.0 Actually Deliver Today? Example Reflow.
Aug 04, 2021 | Vitor Barros
Industry 4.0 is one of the most exciting developments in the manufacturing industry in decades. It promises vast improvements for both manufacturers and their customers. For some companies, however, it can be overwhelming, and it can be difficult with the current available information to understand exactly what the benefits will be in the average factory, and to calculate the return on the investment. Therefore, it may be helpful to bring the discussion down to a tangible level and to isolate one little part of the whole smart electronic assembly factory, namely reflow....
Sep 19, 2016 | Bjorn Dahle
This white paper seeks to set out the value of a ‘smarter’ approach to the reflow process and how a more intelligent oven can offer real added value and performance to the entire line. It also lays out some of the criteria that is important when selecting smart equipment for a smart process, that conforms to, and is ready for, IoM or Industry 4.0...
Jan 06, 2011 | Brian O' Leary, Tim Grove, Dr. S. Manian Ramkumar
The oven recipe, which consists of the reflow oven zone temperature settings and the speed of the conveyor, will determine a specific time‐temperature profile for a given PCB assembly. In order to achieve a good quality PCB assembly, the time‐temperature ...
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KIC Launches Game-Changing TAS Software Platform to Address Emerging Thermal Process Challenges
Nov 18, 2024 | New Platform Brings Enhanced User Experience and AI-Driven Features to Thermal Profiling Systems
Sep 30, 2024 | KIC is pleased to announce that Miles Moreau, General Manager, will be presenting at SMTA International 2024. The presentation, titled "Thermocouple Tactics: A Comparative Study of Attachment Methods," will take place on Wednesday, October 23 from 2-3:30 p.m. during Session RHE6 of the Reliability and Harsh Environments track at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL.
Sep 23, 2024 | KIC will exhibit its innovative solutions for reflow, wave, and cure profiling, machine tracking, and automatic profiling and inspection. The SMTA International Expo will be held on October 23-24, 2024 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL. KIC's booth number is 3029.
KIC's Common Recipe Finder™ Wins 2024 Mexico Technology Award for Thermal Profilers
Sep 16, 2024 | KIC is thrilled to announce that its innovative Common Recipe Finder™ has been honored with the 2024 Mexico Technology Award in the category of 'Thermal Profilers'. The award was presented at a prestigious ceremony on September 11, 2024, before the commencement of SMTA Guadalajara, hosted by Mexico EMS, the leading Spanish-language publication in the electronics manufacturing industry.
Aug 19, 2024 | KIC is excited to announce its participation in Elektronikmessen E-24, scheduled to take place September 3-5, 2024 at the Congress Center Odense in Denmark. KIC will exhibit at Booth C-4632 alongside its distributor, Hin. Attendees are invited to explore KIC's cutting-edge technologies and witness live demonstrations of its latest innovations.
Aug 19, 2024 | KIC will exhibit at the SMTA Guadalajara Expo & Tech Forum, taking place Sept. 11-12, 2024 at the Expo Guadalajara. Attendees are invited to visit KIC at Booth 701 to discover the latest advancements in reflow oven setup, optimization, and monitoring/inspection technology with a special focus on the groundbreaking Common Recipe Finder™.
KIC to Exhibit at Four SMTA Expo & Tech Forums in August
Jul 15, 2024 | KIC is excited to announce its participation in four SMTA Expo & Tech Forums this August. Attendees are invited to explore KIC's latest innovations at the following events:
Jul 01, 2024 | KIC is proud to announce that it has been recognized by IPC for 25 years of membership and significant contributions to electronics manufacturing. The recognition award was presented to KIC President/Owner Philip Kazmierowicz and General Manager Miles Moreau for KIC's dedication to sharing expertise and knowledge for the betterment of the industry.
KIC Honors Scott Gammer of JM Gammer Co. LLC as Representative of the Year for 2023
Jun 24, 2024 | KIC is proud to announce that Scott Gammer of JM Gammer Co. LLC has been named KIC's Representative of the Year for 2023. This prestigious award was presented to Scott by Miles Moreau, General Manager of KIC, in recognition of his outstanding sales achievements and exceptional dedication to the company.
Don't Miss Breakthrough Sensing Technology and Common Recipe Finder from KIC at SMTconnect 2024
May 20, 2024 | KIC is excited to announce its participation at the upcoming SMTconnect exhibition, taking place June 11-13, 2024 in Nuremberg, Germany.
