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KIC Upgrades Automatic Thermal Profiler
January 14, 2008 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
SAN DIEGO KIC's KIC Vision thermal profiling system is upgraded to include additional automatic capabilities. The Vision product is designed to replace manual periodic reflow profiling with automatic measurement of product profiles. The upgrades target increased automation, documentation, and traceability.
The KIC Vision automatically measures a product's thermal profile as frequently as once an hour. While it runs in the background to measure the product profile at a set time interval, it now can also shut down the feed conveyor when the measured profile is no longer in spec. This "alarm" function is designed to prevent rework and scrap expenses and time, and improve product quality.
KIC also introduced an optional statistical process control (SPC) package that automatically logs basic SPC charts, including Cpk, every time a new profile is measured. This automatic feature enables basic SPC functionality at the operator level without the need for statisticians or other experts to watch over the process. This KIC Vision option will warn when the next profile's Cpk level has dropped below the user-selected level.
Both functions can trigger a light tower to alert technicians of a problem. Another upgrade allows data collected by the KIC Vision to be output automatically to an external file for further data management by the user.
For more information, see www.kicthermal.com.