San Diego — KIC, the leader of thermal process development and control products, and winner of multiple industry awards, announces that Brian O’Leary, its Americas Sales Manager, will present “7 Ways to Profile Profitability” from 10:45-11:15 a.m. at the upcoming SMTA Arizona Expo & Tech Forum, scheduled to take place Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at the Fiesta Inn Resort and Conference Center in Tempe, AZ.

Understanding the thermal reflow process has been a subjective event backed by limited data; however, experience and advances in the ability to collect data and deliver the data in a graphical and meaningful manner have lead to significant insights into the reflow process.

Working with customers and research institutes over the years, KIC has found that a set of “best practices” has immerged that lead to more robust accurate profiles, but that also lay the foundation for predictive modeling that can lead to host of cost savings and quality benefits to a SMT process.

KIC will be sharing these best practices that in today’s environment all point to the bottom line in “7 Ways to Profile for Profitability.” After the 30-minute session, KIC will be distributing a newly released book on profiling, full of tips and examples on how to improve a company’s process (a $34.99 value).

Brian O’Leary brings with him more than a decade of industrial sales, marketing and management experience in North and South America, Mexico and Asia. Prior to joining KIC, Brian worked for Sono-Tek as a manufacturer of spray fluxing equipment where he spent much of his time in Asia working in the overseas operations of Western OEMs and CMs.