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.
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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 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.
Don Dennison Appointed to Roll Out KIC's Latest Thermal Analysis System Software in the Northeast
Mar 26, 2024 | KIC is pleased to announce the appointment of PIT Equipment Services, LLC, led by Don Dennison, as its representative for New York, New Jersey, and Eastern Pennsylvania. With this strategic partnership, KIC aims to strengthen its presence in the region and continue its mission of delivering innovative solutions to the electronics manufacturing industry.
Mar 18, 2024 | KIC is excited to announce its participation in the 2024 IPC APEX EXPO, scheduled to take place April 9-11, 2024 at the Anaheim Convention Center in California. Visit KIC at Booth 1626 to witness the latest advancements in reflow process inspection (RPI) technology.
KIC to Present Cutting-Edge Thermal Analysis Technology at SMTA Monterrey Expo
Feb 19, 2024 | KIC is excited to announce its participation in the upcoming SMTA Monterrey Expo & Tech Forum, scheduled to take place Thursday, March 14, 2024 in Monterrey, Nuevo León. The event will be an excellent platform for industry professionals to explore the latest advancements in electronics manufacturing, with a particular focus on automotive and audit processes in Mexico.
KIC to Discuss Revolutionary Contact-less Thermal AnalysisTM at SMTA Dallas Expo and Tech Forum
Feb 12, 2024 | KIC, a renowned pioneer in thermal process and temperature measurement solutions for electronics manufacturing, will exhibit its latest breakthrough technology, Contact-less Thermal AnalysisTM, at the SMTA Dallas Expo and Tech Forum. The event will take place on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at the Plano Event Center.
Jan 29, 2024 | KIC announces that Miles Moreau, General Manager, will be a featured speaker at the SMTA Wisconsin Chapter In-Person PCBA Profile Workshop. The workshop is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. CST at Delta Hotel Menomonee Falls.
KIC's Mile Moreau to Present Groundbreaking Sensing Technology at productronica
Nov 13, 2023 | KIC is thrilled to announce an unprecedented leap in reflow process inspection (RPI) technology. General Manager Miles Moreau will be presenting an exclusive lecture at productronica on Wednesday, November 15, 2023, at the productronica Forum, unveiling the remarkable "Real-time production reflow profile inspection, with new sensor technology for heat transfer detection."
KIC's Common Recipe Finder Wins 2023 Mexico Technology Award for Reflow Oven OEE Optimization
Oct 30, 2023 | KIC is pleased to announce that it was honored with a 2023 Mexico Technology Award in the category of Process Control Tools for its Common Recipe Finder feature. The award was announced during a ceremony that took place Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023 during SMTA Guadalajara in Mexico. KIC's groundbreaking Common Recipe Finder is specifically designed to optimize the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) of reflow ovens.
Oct 16, 2023 | LEADING EQUIPMENT SUPPLIER SHOWCASES EXPERTISE IN THERMAL PROCESS AND TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT AT PRODUCTRONICA 2023