San Diego — KIC, the leader of thermal process development and control products, and winner of multiple industry awards, announces a new standard feature with its KIC 24/7 Thermal Management System. The new feature focuses on the fundamental responsibility of a reflow oven — to produce each and every product in spec.

Over the last decade, reflow ovens have become much more sophisticated, but still cannot provide the most important information: What is the product profile? Is the profile in spec? How stable is the thermal process? The new KIC 24/7 feature transforms a reflow oven from a black box affair to a transparent process tool.

The KIC 24/7 generates two reports for managers:

A. Defects per million opportunities

B. Reflow process yield

A glance at any of these rolling reports will let managers know the health of their reflow process. The information is instantly understandable without wading through complex reports. Such timely information empowers decision makers to make better production choices that ultimately will lead to improved quality, productivity and, thus, enhanced profitability.